Dr. Nadja Harraschain

Nadja Harraschain advises domestic and international companies on resolving complex cross-border disputes in the field of commercial arbitration and litigation. Next to representing her clients in in all stages of the proceedings including settlement negotiations, she regularly provides strategic advice before formal proceedings have been initiated, in interim relief proceedings and in discovery proceedings.

Nadja has a background in representing and advising clients from various sectors, with a particular focus on the energy sector. She handles cases and provides counsel to clients in the gas, oil and wind energy industries involving disputes over energy plants, supply agreements (both long-term and short-term), international sanctions, and environmental matters. Additionally, she offers advice on disputes related to mobility, M&A transactions, foreign investments, and corporate management responsibilities.

Prior to joining rothorn legal, Nadja was a member of Allen Overy Shearman Stearling LLP’s International Arbitration Group for several years. Before that, she worked with several major international law firms in Frankfurt on the Main and New York in the fields of arbitration and litigation while completing her PhD in the field of investment arbitration. For her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York.

Nadja is co-chair of DIS40, the young professionals organisation of the German Arbitration Institute (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, DIS) with more than 2,000 members, and founder and CEO of one of the leading non-profit career platforms for women in law in Germany and Switzerland, breaking.through.

In 2024, Nadja advised the German parliament as an expert at the public hearing of the Legal Affairs Committee concerning the draft bill on the modernization of the German arbitration law. She regularly speaks and publishes on contemporary questions of international arbitration.

Nadja is fluent in German and English.