Lawyers
- Munich
- Dr. Florian Amereller, LL.M.
- Dr. Volker Schmits, LL.M.
- Dr. Stephan Jäger
- Dr. Daniel Heintel
- Dr. Jochen Murach, LL.M.
- Dr. Wolfgang Graf von Armansperg (of Counsel)
- Christine Baltzer-Zacharias
- Maximilian Remien
- Tuire Väisänen, LL.M.
- Kanaan Al Ahmar, LL.M. (of counsel)
- Dr. Omar I.Houri, LL.M. (of counsel)
- Berlin
- Dubai
- Cairo
- Ingy Omar Rasekh
- Said Mostafa Hanafi, LL.M.
- Suzanne El Akabaoui
- Ahmed Abd El Moneim, LL.M.
- Mohamed Mostafa El Gammal
- Amira Omar Rasekh
- Monsef Naguib Soliman (of counsel)
- Dr. Florian Amereller, LL.M. (Resident Partner Dubai)
- Dr. Kilian Bälz LL.M.
- Dr. Gunila S. Molineus
- Sherif Safwat LL.M.
- Hend Abdel Ghany
- Ashraf Aly
- Frederic Wapler (of counsel)
- Roger Button (of counsel)
- Damascus
- Baghdad
Dr. Kilian Bälz LL.M.
E-mail kb(at)amereller.com
Office
Curriculum vitae
Admitted 1999, since 2010 partner Amereller Rechtsanwälte
2008-2010 founding director of RCREEE, a MENA policy platform to promote renewable energies based in Cairo
1999-2007 Gleiss Lutz, Frankfurt
(partner from 2003)
2002 Secondment to Herbert Smith, London
1998-1999 Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic Law, University of Frankfurt
Studied law and Middle East studies at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin (FU), Damascus, Cairo (Diploma in Middle East Studies, AUC) and London (LL.M. School of Oriental and African Studies). Dr. iur. FU Berlin 1997.)
Focus Areas
Business law in MENA, M&A, projects, finance (including Islamic finance), renewable energies and climate change, related arbitration matters.
Languages
English, German, Arabic, French
Publications and Lectures
Numerous publications on business law in MENA, Islamic Finance, renewable energies, including: Insurance Law in the Arab States (1997); Handbook Projects and Project Finance (2nd ed. 2008, ed. Siebel/Röver/Knütel); International Litigation in Civil and Commercial Matters (ed. Geimer/Schütze); Sharia Risk – How Islamic Finance has transformed Islamic Contract Law (2008); Business Law in Egypt (5th ed. 2009); Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (ed. Wolfrum)
Frequent speaker at practitioners’ and academic conferences, including Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), Bahrain; Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; Chambers of Commerce in Hamburg, Leipzig, Köln, Frankfurt and Stuttgart; EHESS (Paris); Harvard Law School; Fletcher School of Diplomacy; Yale University; London School of Economics; Universities of Erlangen, Cologne, Mainz and Berlin (FU).
2008 Fellow Harvard Law School; part time lecturer at Frankfurt School of of Business and Finance and Cairo University.
Memberships
International Bar Association, Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Association for African Law, Association for Arab and Islamic Law (GAIR).
