LL.M. (Berkeley)
Partner // Rechtsanwalt
rolf.trittmann@rothorn.legal
m +49 172 662 18 89
Rolf Trittmann is a highly regarded litigation lawyer with extensive experience of working on disputes coming out of the automotive industry and distribution legal issues.
Who’s Who Legal 2020 – Litigation Germany
Rolf Trittmann is ‘very experienced in the area of distribution disputes‘
Chambers & Partners Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators – Germany
Rolf Trittmann is a high-profile arbitration lawyer with expertise in the automotive sector. He is ‘remarkably strong in handling large cases’.
Who’s Who Legal 2020 – Arbitration Germany
Thought Leader in International Arbitration
Who’s Who Legal 2020 – Arbitration Germany
Leading individual: Commercial Litigation
Legal500
Band 1: Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators // Litigation & Arbitration Counsel – Germany
Chambers & Partners
One of the leading disputes lawyers in Germany.
Chambers Europe 2015
Rolf Trittmann specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, where he is recognised as one of the leading practitioners on a national and international level. He has acted as an arbitrator and as counsel before courts and arbitral tribunals in numerous proceedings, in particular in cross-border matters.
Rolf focuses on post-M&A and general industry disputes as well as contentious distribution and antitrust matters with an emphasis on the automotive industry.
Before founding rothorn legal, Rolf was a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Frankfurt since 1993.
Rolf has acted as an arbitrator in approximately 100 arbitrations, including 25 arbitrations as a chairman in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). As counsel, Rolf has acted in 110 arbitrations, including ICC, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), DIS, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (SCAI) arbitrations.
Rolf was the German member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris until 2018. He is the head of the Advisory Board of the DIS and a member of the DIS Council. Further, Rolf is a member of the American Arbitration Association (ABA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and the German American Lawyers Association (Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung, DAJV). He also is co-editor of the German Arbitration Journal (SchiedsVZ) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Frankfurt, from which he also holds a Ph.D. He regularly publishes and teaches on matters of commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Rolf is recognised as a top-tier arbitrator, litigator and counsel in arbitration in Germany by Chambers and Partners.
Rolf speaks German and English.