Chairman

Mr. Krümmel is a national of Germany, Rechtsanwalt and Partner in the Berlin office of the law firm, MEYER-KÖRING. Prior to his appointment as IAC Chairman, he was a member of the IAC Panel of Arbitrators.

He was admitted to the German Bar in 1992 and has more than 30 years of professional experience as legal advisor and party counsel in the German state courts. He has advised domestic and international corporate developers, banks and investor consortiums, construction companies, high net worth individuals, and private clients, in the pharmaceutical, aeronautics, advertising, automobiles, and food sectors. In commercial arbitration, he has been counsel or arbitrator in cases involving real estate development, franchising, car retail and plant engineering, under the ICC (Paris), DIS (Berlin & Bonn) and ad hoc arbitration rules.

He was a board member of the German Bar Association (International Section) and the Berlin Bar Association. He is Chairman of the Berlin Bar’s Examination Committee for specialist lawyers in International Commercial Law. He is an Honoroary Member of the UK Commercial Bar – European Circuit. He graduated in Law at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität of Bonn, Germany, and holds an LL.M. Masters in Law degree (with distinction) from the University of Glamorgan (Wales). He speaks German, English and French. He was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre national du mérite by the President of France in 2013.