Erik Schäfer

Partner, COHAUSZ & FLORACK

Erik Schäfer is a partner at COHAUSZ & FLORACK, a Dusseldorf firm specialising in IP and technology law. He graduated from the University of Freiburg in 1983 and qualified for the German Bar in 1987. Mr Schäfer’s main areas of practice are intellectual property, information and communications technology, commercial law (eg, licensing and R&D cooperation) and arbitrations with a technical or IP flavour. Since 1994 he has acted as counsel in court cases and as counsel or arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. He is arbitrator for IP disputes on the panels of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Mr Schäfer is fluent in English, Spanish, French and German.

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