Burkhard Schneider
Europe Guide 2024
Band 5 : Dispute Resolution: Litigation
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About
Provided by Burkhard Schneider
Practice Areas
Burkhard Schneider specialises in the Commerical Litigation and Arbitration sector which comprises more than 40 experts dedicated to complex commercial disputes, which are often connected with high end intellectual property matters and white collar/regulatory & compliance issues.
Burkhard has extensive experience in banking and finance litigation, securities litigation, domestic and international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Burkhard has long standing experience with mass actions, cross border litigation and arbitration and investigations. D&O liability and tax-evasion recovery litigation have become a more recent focus of Burkhard's practice. He has acted in numerous headline cases. Burkhard also authored a significant number of major law review and newspaper articles as well as client newsletters.
He frequently speaks on current legal topics and is a lecturer for international arbitration at the University of Frankfurt.
Career
University of Frankfurt/Main, First State Examination 1992
Junior research fellow at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 1993
University of Virginia, Charlottesville (LL.M.) 1996
Second State Examination, Wiesbaden, 1996
Admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany 1996
Joined Clifford Chance 1996
Partner 2000-2020