Dr. Anna-Gesine Köpp

Dispute Resolution – Litigation – Arbitration ProceedingsCommercial

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Dr. Anna-Gesine Köpp

Experience

Anna-Gesine Köpp specialises in the field of litigation and arbitration. She advises and represents national and international companies in civil, commercial and business law disputes. This includes both out-of-court dispute resolution and the enforcement of and defence against claims before the state courts and arbitral tribunals. 


One of her focuses is on distribution disputes – in particular the defence against compensation claims. Anna-Gesine Köpp is head of Oppenhoff’s Distribution Law Initiative, which she founded in 2022. She is also retained as an arbitrator. 


A further focus of her work is on contract structuring and advice on contract implementation, in particular purchase agreements and contracts for work. An eight-month secondment to a medium-sized company in Berlin in 2019 enabled her to deepen her know-how on contract review and structuring.

 

Education

Anna-Gesine Köpp has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2017. She studied law at Cologne University. Her legal training included secondments to the German Federal Cartel Office in Bonn, to Oppenhoff and to the Dispute Resolution practice of CMS in Cologne. Prior to her legal training Anna-Gesine Köpp worked in the Department for Civil Law, International Commercial Law, IPR, Comparative Law and Banking Law at Cologne University, assisting in particular with the Cologne Willem C. Vis Moot Court Team. In 2016 she was awarded her doctorate “Dr. iur” under Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Berger on the topic “Agreements between parties on the qualifications of arbitrators”. At Oppenhoff she organizes the Cologne Vis Moot School together with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack.

Anna-Gesine Köpp is a member of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), the German Initiative of Young Arbitration Practitioners (DIS40), the Cologne Bar Association (KAV), the German Society for Distribution Law (DGVR), the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V. (AmCham Germany), the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA) and the International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitration & ADR Forum (ICC YAAF). 

Dr. Anna-Gesine Köpp

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German, English, Spanish

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 625
M +49 152 0165 1585

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Articles and Essays

Keine Bindungswirkung der deutschen Gerichte bei Aufhebungsantrag im Ursprungsstaat des Schiedsspruchs [No binding effect of the German courts in the event of an application for the repeal of an arbitral award in the country of its origin]
ZIP 15/2024, p. 802 et seq. (in collaboration with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack)

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

Pflichtangaben zur alternativen Streitbeilegung in AGB auf Website ohne Möglichkeit eines Vertragsschlusses [Mandatory information on alternative dispute resolution in general terms and conditions on websites without the possibility of concluding a contract]
EWiR dated 4 December 2020, p. 717

"E-food": what operators should know about the Platform-to-Business Regulation
Article for the retail and consumer goods sectoral group, Oppenhoff

Dispute Resolution in Germany 2020
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack and Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann, Lexology Getting The Deal Trough: 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. Vanessa Pickenpack)

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

Neue Verordnung: Gegen unfaire Praktiken [New ordinance: against unfair practices]
Interview with Dr. Anna-Gesine Zimmermann/Dr. Simon Spangler, Handelsblatt dated 25 February 2020, Issue 39

Informationspflicht über zuständige Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle nur zu Lasten des zur Teilnahme am Streitbeilegungsverfahren verpflichteten Unternehmers [Duty to provide information on the competent consumer arbitration board only borne by entrepreneurs who are obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings]
EWiR dated 24 January 2020, S. 45 (in collaboration with Vladimir Krahn)

Kein Einverständnis der Parteien einer Schiedsvereinbarung mit nachträglicher Erweiterung der Klagebefugnis in Verfahrensordnung des Schiedsgerichts [No agreement of the parties to an arbitration agreement to the subsequent extension of the locus standi in the arbitral tribunal’s procedural code]
EWiR dated 23 November 2018, p. 703

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. Vanessa Pickenpack)

Presenter of discussion rounds during the DIS40 Rhine/Ruhr online event "Arbitration law debates - contestability of arbitral awards" (30 July 2020, digital)

Presentation of the panel discussion at the DIS40 event "Die Schiedsrichterauswahl in der täglichen Praxis“ [The selection of arbitrators in daily practice] (23 May 2019, Frankfurt).

Lecture within the framework of the DIS40 series of events “Schreibe eine Doktorarbeit und rede darüber” (Write a thesis and talk about it) on the topic “Parteivereinbarungen über die Qualifikationen von Schiedsrichtern” (Agreements between parties on the qualification of arbitrators) (10 January 2018, Hamburg).

 

16.04.2020 News

Trade fairs, congresses and professional events - what do organizers need to be aware of during the corona crisis?

The event sector has been hit hard by coronavirus and the official event bans. From when and to what extent business can be resumed is impossible to predict. Organizers are being forced to make decisions about the fate of planned events on the basis of uncertain facts, often with far-reaching economic consequences. The "voucher solution" envisaged by the Federal Government will only bring limited relief. These vouchers do not apply to events in a professional context and with a professional audience. In this case, the following legal principles are decisive.

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