NEWSLitigation and Arbitration
Marccus Partners represents and assists its domestic and foreign clients on a wide variety of complex commercial and tax disputes involving multiple claims and parties before the various tribunals and courts in its local juridictions. It also represents major groups and banks as well as governments in proceedings before the European Courts.
The firm advises its clients in order to better define and implement their litigation strategy, assesses litigation risks and proposes preventive solutions, including mediation procedures. If necessary, the firm litigates disputes aggressively but remains very sensitive to the need in many cases to solve disputes in an amicable way, allowing commercial relationships to be maintained.
Marccus Partners' team works closely with the firm's other practice areas to develop compliance initiatives in order to help its clients reduce their litigation risk.
Its litigation expertise covers various areas of practice, including in particular:
• General commercial litigation (contractual disputes, commercial torts, etc.)
• Litigation relating to distribution law (termination of contracts, disputes arising during the reorganization of distribution networks, etc.) with an emphasis on automative distribution
• Corporate litigation (conflicts between shareholders, liability of managers, enforcement of guarantees covering liabilities, etc.)
• Insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
• Industrial litigation (product liability claims, product risk, product safety, etc.)
• Banking and finance litigation
• Real estate litigation (liability of constructors, commercial leases, etc.)
• Employment litigation (collective and individual disputes, etc.)
• European and antitrust/competition litigation and
• Tax litigation
Marccus Partners has also extensive expertise in international and domestic arbitration, acting either as counsel or arbitrator. The firm assists its clients at the various steps of the arbitration proceedings, both in institutional arbitration (such as ICC arbitration) and in ad hoc procedures.
In the field of arbitration Marccus Partners has extensive experience which includes proceedings in accordance with national court rules (for instance, the German Arbitral Jurisdiction Organisation and international court rules (for instance, UNCITRAL, the Arbitration Rules of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce).
Marccus Partners' international team is familiar with issues related to choice of law, forum election, comparative law and cross-cultural issues in order to secure the appropriate litigation or arbitration strategy for its clients. The members of the team, who are all fluent in three languages, have the ability to conduct proceedings in English, French and German.
Partners in charge for each country
France
Germany
Rechtsanwältin - Steuerberaterin - Fachanwältin für Steuerrecht
katrin.kassmann@marccuspartners.com
