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Dr. Philipp Alfter

Senior Associate // Rechtsanwalt

othorn legal | international disputes

philipp.alfter@rothorn.legal
m +49 151 70 60 30 78

Philipp Alfter advises and represents clients in complex proceedings before state courts and arbitration tribunals. He has broad experience in contract and corporate disputes as well as in data protection litigation. Philipp Alfter has acted as counsel in domestic and international commercial arbitration proceedings governed by the DIS and ICC rules and has represented clients in set-aside proceedings before German state courts.

Prior to joining rothorn legal, Philipp Alfter worked for several years as an associate at the international law firm Freshfields in Frankfurt, specialising in dispute resolution. He studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Florida and earned his doctorate with a thesis on “The standard of proof in international commercial arbitration”.

Philipp Alfter is fluent in English and German.

Erfahrung (Auszug)
  • Representing a German utility company in several arbitration proceedings
  • Representing a German listed automotive group in a commercial arbitration with general distributors
  • Representing a client from the technology sector in defending against lawsuits in Germany
  • Advising a German company in connection with the defense against data protection claims
  • Representing a German industry conglomerate on post-compliance follow-on damages claims
  • Advising and representing a German industrial company in relation to claims arising from the cancellation of trade fair events due to the Coronavirus pandemic
Qualifikationen
  • Rechtsanwalt, Germany
  • Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (Germany), involving placements at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
  • Ph.D. at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  • Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and the University of Florida (Gainesville, USA)
Publikationen
  • Das Beweismaß in der international Handelsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit“, Dissertation 2019
  • Zur Streitwertfestsetzung bei Anfechtungs- und Nichtigkeitsklagen gegen einen aktienrechtlichen Squeeze-out Beschluss“, Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht 2021, 454 (zusammen mit Jan-Michael Klett), zugleich Bespr. v. OLG Köln, Beschl. v. 4.1.2021 – 18 U 161/17