Hendrik Puschmann

Hendrik advises clients on a wide range of complex and high-value disputes, both in arbitration and in court. 

He has extensive experience in representing entrepreneurs, family offices, companies and governments with cases ranging from M&A, joint ventures, franchising, construction, engineering, insurance, expropriation, and discrimination. 

Hendrik is a leading expert on investment treaty arbitration and has published widely on this topic. He is a member of the Contractual ICSID Arbitration Working Group and a strategic advisor to a foreign government on its bilateral investment treaties.

He has acted as party representative and party-appointed arbitrator in arbitrations under various rules, such as LCIA, ICC, VIAC, SIAC, DIS, LMAA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and the ICSID Additional Facility. He also assists clients with the enforcement, appeal, annulment, and injunction of arbitral awards.

He is multilingual and qualified in four jurisdictions (both civil law and common law), which enables him to handle cross-border issues effectively. He is known for his pragmatic and assertive approach to dispute resolution and advocacy.

Recent Cases:

• Assisted an investor with settling a favourable ICSID award
• Acted for a group of investors in an UNCITRAL BIT claim
• Acting for a private company in relation to a claim against a state entity for breach of a joint venture agreement (English law; LCIA; London)
• Acting for a major international salvage and offshore construction services company in several arbitrations relating to charter parties and salvage contracts (English law; ad hoc/LMAA; London)
• Advising a state-owned central Asian power company in a dispute against a supplier of raw materials (English law; LCIA; London)
• Acting for an East European distributor of a major automotive brand in a dispute about the termination of interrelated retail and distribution agreements (German law; VIAC; Vienna)
• Representing a luxury travel goods retailer in several dispute against the developers of its online sales platform (German law; DIS; Berlin/English law; Mercantile Court)
• Party-appointed arbitrator in an arbitration between a US company and an African state entity for breach of a consultancy agreement (Law of an African jurisdiction; UNCITRAL Rules; Geneva)
• Acting for the contractor in a delay case relating to a combine cycle gas turbine plant in the Middle East (law of a Middle Eastern jurisdiction; ICC; London)
• Assisting a North American company with an UNCITRAL BIT arbitration against a sovereign state arising out of the revocation of a licence for a mine
• Acted for a property developer in an arbitration arising out of the contractual framework of a large-scale master-planned community (English law and the law of a Caribbean jurisdiction; LCIA; London)
• Represented an emerging markets investment fund in a dispute (and successful settlement negotiations) against a former member relating to the termination of their partnership agreement (English law and the law of a Caribbean jurisdiction; LCIA; London)
• Acted for an East Asian franchisee of a global retail brand in relation to the purported termination of the franchise (English law; UNCITRAL ad-hoc arbitration; London)
• Represented a German ship owner in several arbitrations against a Japanese trading house involving questions of set-off, the conflict of laws and the construction of vessels (English and Japanese law; ad hoc arbitration; London)
• Represented an EU telecoms company against a former director regarding breach of a settlement agreement and breach of director's duties (English law; SIAC; Singapore)
• Advised a consortium of construction companies in several insurance/reinsurance disputes under contracts governed by Brazilian, English, and French law (LCIA; London/ICC; Geneva).