Carsten is a partner in the German Litigation & Regulatory Group of DLA Piper and is based in the Hamburg office. His practice specialises in advising corporations and individuals in white collar and corporate defence issues, in particular:
- fraud
- anti-corruption
- money laundering
- compliance
- insolvency-related offences
- breach of fiduciary duties ("Untreue")
- infringement of foreign trade regulations
- customs offences
- environmental offences
- European warrant of arrest
- tax fraud
- breach of financial services regulations
- asset recovery
- corporate manslaughter
Key experience:
- Assisting the US co-plaintiff in the 9/11 Hamburg trial against Mounir El Motassadeq (HansOLG Hamburg).
- Acting on behalf of FC St. Pauli in the German Bundesliga referee bribery scandal ("Hoyzer affair") in the criminal trial against the perpetrators (LG Berlin).
- Acting as defence counsel for the German navy commander of the German frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" who lost two crew members in a boat transfer with the British frigate "Cumberland" during the NATO manoeuvre STRONG RESOLVE in the Baltic Sea in 2002 (OLG Oldenburg/LG Oldenburg).
- Acting on behalf of an Estonian defendant in the first German European warrant of arrest case after the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG NJW 2005 2289) ruled the German legislation implementing the EU Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JI of 13 June 2002 to be null and void (HansOLG Hamburg).
His significant courtroom experience also comprises numerous commercial litigations (including advocacy) in the ECJ, BGH (Federal German Supreme Court), BVerwG (Federal German Administrative Court), various OLGs (High Courts) and LGs (Commercial Courts) all over Germany and local administrative and tax courts. Carsten has acted as counsel in FIFA, CAS and GMAA arbitrations.
Apart from his corporate defence and white collar practice, Carsten traditionally has a broad client base in the marine, shipping and offshore sector. He advises in national and international commercial and civil law, in particular shipping, transport and logistics law. He acts for German and international clients in contentious and non-contentious matters of marine insurance (P & I, hull & machinery, FD & D), maritime arbitration (LMAA, GMAA), charter party disputes (voyage, time, bareboat), deadfreight and demurrage claims, carriage of goods by sea (B/L, sea waybill), cargo claims, shipbuilding and repair contracts, collisions, ship arrest, sale and purchase of new and second-hand tonnage, ship brokerage, ship finance, ship registration and re-flagging, general average, towage & salvage, multimodal transport, public maritime law and marine-related criminal matters.
He is member of the German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA) and elected member of the central committee (“
Zentralausschuß”) of German Maritime Law Association (
Deutscher Verein für Internationales Seerecht e. V. – DVIS). Carsten lectures in International Logistics Law in the MBA-programme of Hamburg School of Logistics at Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg and has been appointed to the list of arbitrators of
Deutsches Schiedsgericht Logistik e. V. – the German logistics arbitration association. Carsten is also qualified as a Solicitor (England and Wales).
"partner" refers to a member of DLA Piper UK LLP
Professionelle Qualifizierung
- Rechtsanwalt admitted with Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales