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a lawyer qualified for the German bar since
1987, was born in 1957 and studied at the Universities of Freiburg
(Germany), Dijon (France) and London (England).
He is admitted as attorney-at-law at all German local and district
courts and at all German higher regional courts. He began his career
in 1988 as counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court
of Arbitration in Paris. Starting in 1992, he worked as in-house
lawyer in a company ip-department.
In 1993 he joined the Dresden branch office of a law firm specialising
in competition law, intellectual property law and commercial law.
In 1997 he joined Cohausz & Florack, a Düsseldorf inter-professional
law firm focussing on all aspects of intellectual property and counselling
on the protection and exploitation of technology and scientific
know how, where he is a Partner. Erik Schäfer also represents
parties in arbitral proceedings and acts as arbitrator. He is also
a trained mediator. He is listed in the list of arbitrators of the
International Arbitral centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
in Vienna.
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His memberships in professional organizations range from the German
Arbitration Institute (DIS) to the Swiss Arbitration Association
(ASA), the German intellectual property rights association (GRUR),
the German branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and
the International Bar Association. As
German delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration he has participated
in various task forces and chairs the task force on IT & Arbitration.
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a Belgian lawyer, was born in 1959 and studied
at the Universities of Brussels and Leuven in Belgium, as well as
at the University of Tübingen in Germany and King’s College,
London, in England. He was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1983,
and from 1988 to 1996 held the position of counsel at the Secretariat
of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He then returned
to Brussels where he has since been working as a lawyer, currently
with the firm Lawfort. He specializes mainly in domestic and international
arbitration and has acted both as counsel and arbitrator.
Since 1996, he has been visiting professor on arbitration at the
University of Ghent, in Belgium, and since 1998 has been a consultant
with the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO in Geneva. He is
a member of the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI),
the German Arbitration Institute, the French Arbitration Committee,
the Swiss Arbitration Association, the London Court of International
Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the Belgian-German
Association of Lawyers, the European Lawyers Association, the Association
Internationale des Jeunes Avocats and the International Bar Association.
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He is also registered as a mediator with the Brussels Business Mediation
Centre. Herman Verbist continues to have links with ICC as a member
of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and an associate member of
the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He is also a member of
the WIPO panel of experts on domain names.
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Christophe Imhoos was born in 1959 and studied at the
Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and New York (USA). After his
admission to the Geneva Bar in 1985, he held the position of counsel
at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
from 1987 to 1991.
Since 1992, he has been a partner of the law firm Jean-Pierre and
Christophe Imhoos in Geneva and acts as counsel and arbitrator in
international trade disputes. He is a member of the Swiss Arbitration
Association, the French Arbitration Committee, the Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association, as well
as a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration.
Since 1998, he has been consultant with the International Trade
Centre UNCTAD/WTO in Geneva and visiting expert with the International
Development Law Institute in Rome, Italy. He is a regular speaker
at seminars organized by the ICC Institute of World Business Law,
of which he is an associate member. Christophe Imhoos is also a
member of the Editorial Board of the International Business Law
Journal and is in charge of its arbitration pages. He is on the
WIPO panel of experts on domain names, in which capacity he has
rendered a number of decisions. He recently worked as consultant
with the United Nations Development Programme for the start of the
OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration in Côte d’Ivoire.
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