Area of specialisation
Bar admission
Experience with legal system
Professional experience
2021 Founding of Gantenberg Dispute Experts2006 – 2021 Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Duesseldorf (Partner); (2010 – 2013 Managing Partner)
2001 – 2006 Lawyer with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf
1998 – 2000 Legal Clerkship at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG) with working experience in Paris, France
1993 – 1997 Saarland University, Saarbruecken
Ulrike is regularly appointed as arbitrator and advises her clients as party representative in complex proceedings. Two main core areas of Ulrike’s practice are turn-key construction (including energy related projects) and post-M&A /contract disputes. For over ten years, she had advised on corporate and M&A matters, and from which experience she now ben-efits as counsel and arbitrator. She is a member of various boards and committees of inter-national arbitration institutions and a frequent speaker on issues of international arbitration and international private law at international events and conferences.
Ulrike acts as counsel and arbitrator (sole arbitrator, chair and co-arbitrator) in international commercial arbitration (ad hoc, DIS, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, FAI, DIA, SCC etc.) investor state disputes, and adjudication proceedings as well as counsel in litigation cases. As a qualified German lawyer with working experience in France, Ulrike is particularly dedicated to inter-national work. Her experience includes arbitration proceedings under various jurisdictions (including Germany, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Turkey). Her vast experience as arbitrator impacts her counsel work.