Dr Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, a large German law firm with about 350 lawyers and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Zurich. The firm engages in general corporate and commercial, international arbitration and M&A.
Wolfgang's areas of practice are corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and international arbitration. He has advised national and foreign clients in a large number of M&A transactions, related to, among other things, the energy, automotive, media (TV and telecoms), food production and service industries.
Wolfgang has handled many national and international arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel in respect to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, construction project contracts, and turnkey plant contracts on behalf of German and international corporate parties or clients. He acts as chairman in large international arbitration proceedings, such as those related to disputes under foreign investment treaties or international joint ventures (such as Uncitral ad hoc, ICC, DIS, Copenhagen Arbitration, SIAC and Vienna Arbitration).
He is honorary member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS); past chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association; and past member (1990–1996) of the ICC International Court Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. He has spoken at various international conferences (including IBA, ICC, DIS, ICCA and VIAC). He was adviser to the IBA Rules of Evidence Subcommittee in 2010.
Wolfgang's publications include: SchiedsVZ 'Die CME Saga' (Dr Wolfgang Kühn/Ulrike Wiegel); 'How to avoid conflicting Awards – The Lauder and CME Cases', The Journal of World Investment & Trade (Dr Wolfgang Kühn/Ulrike Gantenberg nèe Wiegel), February 2004; 'Öffentlich-private Großprojekte' (public private mega projects), Schriftenreihe Heidelberger Kolloquium, Technologie und Recht, 2004, Verlag C.H. Beck; German Chapter for Arbitration World, 2nd edition, 2006; 'Recension', in SchiedsVZ for Handbook of ICC Arbitration by Michael Buehler and Thomas H Webster, 2006; 'Common Law vs Civil Law Proceedings in Commercial Arbitration', 'Current Issues concerning the application of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards', Journal of International Arbitration 2008; German Chapter in Arbitration World, 3rd edition, 2010; 'Arbitration and Insolvency', Journal Dispute Resolution International, 2011; 'Arbitration and Insolvency – A comment on Elektrim v Vivendi (Switzerland)' in The Practice of Arbitration: Essays in Honour of Hans van Houtte, Hart Publishing, 2012, "Defaulting Parties and Default Awards in International Arbitration", Liber Amicorum Gerhard Wegen, March 2015; "Adjudication in International Arbitration", Liber Amicorum Siegfried Elsing, 2015; "The Arbitrator and the Arbitration Procedure, Procedural Tools in Support of Predictability in International Arbitration" in Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 2017; and "The Burden of Substantiation and Proof in Continental European Civil Procedure and the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration", Best Lawyers "Fall Global Business Edition", 2017.
