ADVANT Beiten

Corporate/M and A

Partner, head of ADVANT Beiten's Munich office and head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group

Dr Ralf Hafner is Partner, head of ADVANT Beiten's Munich office and head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. His area of activity comprises litigation & arbitration. He particularly advises his national and international clients on complex, international disputes, mostly post-M&A-cases as well as other corporate, commercial, banking and contractual matters and claims for damages in particular against corporate bodies. He represents his clients in arbitration and state court proceedings, including proceedings for the enforcement of arbitral awards. He has extensive expertise as arbitrator (also as president and sole arbitrator), as counsel and as secretary to the arbitral tribunal from more than 60 arbitration proceedings following the rules of DIS, ICC, LCIA, Milan Chamber of Commerce, SCC, Swiss Rules as well as from ad hoc arbitration proceedings (including UNCITRAL Rules) in various industries.

Ralf Hafner studied law at the University of Freiburg and was admitted to the German Bar in 2004. While holding a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation he earned a doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg (Dr. iur., 2004). In 2008 Ralf graduated with a master's degree (M.Sc. (Construction Law & Dispute Resolution)) from King's College London. Since 2011 he teaches Business Law at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Institute for Management of the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. In 2012 he was a Visiting Lecturer for European & International Law at King's College London. Since 12/2021 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the DIS. In 11/2022 he has been selected as arbitrator for the Arbitrator Pool of the Court of Arbitration for Art. After seven years with a major Anglo-American law firm in its Dusseldorf and London offices, Dr Ralf Hafner has been working with ADVANT Beiten as a partner since January 2011.

English / French / German

British-German Jurists' Association German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) ICC ICDR KAS Alumni KCCLA

Ralf Hafner studied law at the University of Freiburg and was admitted to the German Bar in 2004. While holding a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation he earned a doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg (Dr. iur., 2004). In 2008 Ralf graduated with a master's degree (M.Sc. (Construction Law & Dispute Resolution)) from King's College London. Since 2011 he teaches Business Law at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Institute for Management of the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. In 2012 he was a Visiting Lecturer for European & International Law at King's College London. Since 12/2021 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the DIS.