Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack

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Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack

Experience

Vanessa Pickenpack is a partner of Oppenhoff. She advises and represents national and international enterprises in civil, trade and commercial matters. In addition to the examination and structuring of contracts, this includes extrajudicial dispute resolution as well as representation before the state courts and arbitral tribunals. A focus of Vanessa Pickenpack’s activities is cartel damage proceedings in which she advises and represents both on the claimant’s and defendant’s sides. Additionally, she regularly acts as an arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings. 

The US publisher Best Lawyers lists Vanessa Pickenpack among the best lawyers for arbitration and mediation as well as for litigation. She is recommended by name in the renowned JUVE Handbook for Commercial Law Firms. Vanessa Pickenpack is also listed in the Who's Who Legal Handbook as one of the leading national experts in the field of litigation.

Education

Vanessa Pickenpack has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2008. Following her studies at the University of Göttingen, she completed her legal training in Düsseldorf, with stations at commercial law firms in Düsseldorf and Sydney. She subsequently gained her doctorate on a topic of civil procedural law.

Vanessa Pickenpack is a member of various arbitration associations and a founding member of the Cologne Vis Moot School. She is also a member of the Civil Procedural Law Committee [Zivilverfahrensrechtsausschuss] of the German Bar Association [Deutscher Anwaltverein].

 

Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack

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Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 334
M +49 172 2782 672

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Articles and Essays

Kein Schadenersatz ohne Schaden [No compensation for damages without damage]
PinG dated 9 February 2024, pp. 246-248 (in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Hartung and Dr. Axel Grätz)

Anspruch auf rechtliches Gehör und Berücksichtigung durch zweites Schiedsgericht bei entgegenstehender Rechtskraft eines vorangegangenen Schiedsspruchs mit identischem Streitgegenstand [Right to be heard and considered by a second arbitral tribunal in case of the conflicting legal finality of a previous arbitral award with an identical subject of dispute]
EWiR 2023, pp. 382-384 (in collaboration with Sarah Zingel)

Begründung der Insolvenzreife bei Missachtung der Pflicht zur Führung und Aufbewahrung von Büchern und Belegen [Establishment of grounds for insolvency in case of the failure to observe the duty to keep and store books and records]
EWiR 2023, 233

Spezialisten für Wirtschaftsprozesse [Specialists in economic processes]
NJW-aktuell 32/2022, p. 15.

Pflicht zur frühestmöglichen Erhebung der Zuständigkeitsrüge im Schiedsverfahren [Obligation to plead lack of jurisdiction in arbitration proceedings as early as possible]
EWiR 2022, pp. 478-497.

Mindestanforderungen an die Begründungspflicht eines Schiedsspruchs - Pflicht zur Stellungnahme zu dem wesentlichen Verteidigungsvorbringen [Minimum requirements for the obligation to state the reasons for an arbitral award – obligation to comment on the substantial submissions of the defence]
EWiR 2022, p. 318 (in collaboration with Sarah Zingel)

Hohe Rohstoffpreise: Lieferverträge einfach kündigen? [High commodity prices: Simply terminate supply contracts?]
Börsen-Zeitung dated 15 April 2022, p. 9 (in collaboration with Patrick Vapore)

Klagerisiko im Gasmarkt [Risk of law suits in the gas market]
Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung dated 01.04.2022, No. 77, p. 21 (in collaboration with Patrick Vapore)

Dispute Resolution in Germany 2021
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack and Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann, Lexology Getting The Deal Through: Market Intelligence – Dispute Resolution 2021

Zivilprozess: Der lange Weg in die digitale Welt; Die ZPO kennt elektronische Dokumente als Beweis – doch wie sie in den Prozess einführen? [Civil proceedings: The long road to the digital world; The German Code of Civil Procedure acknowledges electronic documents as evidence - but how are they to be introduced into the proceedings?]
Anwaltsblatt dated 2020, 467

Dispute resolution in Germany 2020
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack and Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann, Lexology Getting The Deal Through: Market Intelligence – Dispute Resolution 2020

Fachmessen, Kongresse und berufliche Veranstaltungen – worauf müssen Veranstalter in der Corona-Krise achten? [Trade fairs, congresses and professional events – what measures do organizers have to take during the corona crisis?]
Betriebs-Berater Corona Rechtsinformation dated 16 April 2020 (in collaboration with Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann)

Der Teufel steckt im Detail [The devil is in the detail]
Anwalt Spiegel, Issue 7, 04/2020, pp.14-17 (in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Dohrn)

Dispute Resolution in Germany 2019
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack and Dr. Susanne Maurer, Lexology Getting The Deal Through: Market Intelligence – Dispute Resolution 2019

Können sich Unternehmen gegen das Coronavirus versichern lassen? [Can companies insure themselves against corona?]
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack/Dr. Anna Gesine-Zimmermann, Gruenderszene dated 5 March 2020.

Schienenkartell II: OLG Düsseldorf stellt sich beim Anscheinsbeweis gegen BGH [Rail cartel II: Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf takes a different stand to the FCJ regarding prima facie evidence]
Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb dated 1 March 2019, No. 03 (in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Dohrn)

Internationale Zuständigkeit bei grenzüberschreitenden Darlehen [International jurisdiction in case of cross-border loans]
IWRZ, Issue 03/2017, p. 135

Kein Entfall des Rechtsschutzbedürfnisses für Antrag auf gerichtliche Entscheidung gegen Zwischenentscheid des Schiedsgerichts durch Endschiedsspruch [No loss of the interest in bringing an application for a court decision against an interim decision of the arbitral tribunal through a final arbitration award]
EWiR dated 27 December 2016, p. 777

Zur Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer anti-suit-Schiedssprüche (‘Gazprom’) [Recognition and Execution of Foreign Anti-Suit Arbitration Awards (‘Gazprom’)]
EWiR dated June 2016, p. 24

Die Anforderungen an die Schiedsfähigkeit von Beschlussmängelstreitigkeiten gelten nicht für einfache Feststellungsklagen [Arbitration requirements in disputes on deficient resolutions do not apply to simple motions for declaratory judgement]
DER BETRIEB dated May 2016, p.27

Die Anforderungen an die Schiedsfähigkeit von Beschlussmängelstreitigkeiten gelten nicht für einfache Feststellungsklagen [Arbitration requirements in disputes on deficient resolutions do not apply to simple motions for declaratory judgement]
DER BETRIEB (Operations) 2016, p. 43, 2016

Zur Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer anti-suit-Schiedssprüche (‘Gazprom’) [Recognition and Execution of Foreign Anti-Suit Arbitration Awards (‘Gazprom’)]
Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht (Decisions on Commercial Law) 2016, p.61

Kein Abschluss einer Schiedsvereinbarung durch Handelsbrauch [No conclusion of an arbitration agreement through trade practice]
EWiR dated 8 December 2017, p. 721

Zur Untersuchungsobliegenheit beim beiderseitigen Handelsgeschäft [Inspection obligation in the event of reciprocal commercial transactions]
EWiR 11/2018

Übersetzungserfordernis bei Zustellungen gerichtlicher Schriftstücke an juristischen Personen [Translation requirement in the event of the service of court documents to legal entities]
IPRax 2018, Issue 4 (in collaboration with Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann)

Ohne Umweg zum Kartellschadenersatz [Direct route to compensation for cartel damages]
Handelsblatt dated 17 November 2015 and Lebensmittelzeitung 20 November 2015

Law and Culture: A Theory of Comparative Variation in Bona Fide Purchase Rules
Oxford J Legal Studies dated 22 March 2015, p. 1 (in collaboration with Dr. Klaus Günther)

Rechtsschutz bei Verletzung von Verfahrensgrundrechten und Untätigkeit der Gerichte" [Legal Protection in case of Violation of Fundamental Procedural Rights and in case of Inaction of the Courts]
dissertation 2011, Peter Lang 2012

TalkingPoint: Arbitration in Germany
Financier Worldwide Online dated March 2012

Gesetz zum Schutz gegen überlange Verfahren – Kein echter Rechtsbehelf gegen langsame Mühlen der Justiz [No Real Remedy against slow-moving Mills of Justice]
Legal Tribune Online dated 7 October 2011

Zurückweisung der Berufung durch Beschluss - Die Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde als zweitbeste Lösung [Refusal of an Appeal through Resolution – The Non-Admission Complaint as second-best Solution]
Legal Tribune Online dated 26 January 2011

Books and Legal Commentaries

Beck’scher Online-Kommentar IT-Recht [Beck’s online commentary of IT law]
Annotation to §§ 371 et seq. German Code of Civil Procedure [Zivilprozessordnung – ZPO] (evidence in the form of electronic documents), 1st edition, 2021, co-author, publisher: Dr. Marc Hilber, Prof. Dr. Georg Borges

The digitised civil procedure – the positions and approaches of the legal profession”, Conference of German Lawyers (Deutscher Anwaltstag) (7 June 2021)

Various web-seminars on the effects of the corona virus upon contractual relationships (March/April 2020)

Kartellschadensersatz: Durchsetzung des kartellrechtlichen Schadensersatzanspruchs - Chancen und Risiken [Cartel damages compensation: Enforcement of damage claims under cartel law – chances and risks], FORUM Institut für Management GmbH (20 April 2016)

Hosting, co-organisation and co-presentation of a seminar of the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF) on the topic “Emergency Arbitrator – Success Stories and Challenges” (May 2015)

Founding member and co-organisation of the Cologne Vis Moot School (since 2014)

Hosting and co-organisation of a seminar of the Rhine/Ruhr Regional Group of the German Initiative of Young Arbitrators “DIS40” on the topic “Arbitration proceedings in Eastern Europe” (June 2013)