Biography
Dr. Jan-Erik Pötschke,
partner of the lawfirm Ahlers & Vogel Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB in Hamburg/Germany. He was admitted to the bar in 1997.
He is working principally for Owners, Ship Managers and Marine Insurances and has extensive experience in sale and purchase transactions, shipbuilding projects and charterparty and bills of lading disputes either in the German commercial courts or in arbitration in Hamburg and London. As member of the Ahlers & Vogel Maritime Casualty team he has been involved in many casualty investigations in Germany and for German ships worldwide.
Jan-Erik is a Vice President of the German Maritime Law Association, member of the German Association for Transport Law, the German/Singapore Legal Association and of the Maritime and Transport Law Committee of IBA.
Jan-Erik is a Titulary Member of CMI. He is a member of the CMI IWG on Maritime Decarbonization “Green Fuels” and of the CMI IWG on Judicial Sale of Ships where he has been involved in the negotiations and drafting of the “Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships”. As such he has given various presentations at CMI conferences and colloquia since 2012. As legal expert in Maritime Law he has been the appointed advisor to the Federal Ministry of Justice of Germany and was a member of the German delegation at the UNCITRAL working group VI in Vienna and New York.
Jan-Erik publishes legal articles in German and International Maritime Journals and is the co-author of the commentary about Maritime Law in Germany in the Munich Commercial Law Commentary (“Münchener Kommentar zum HGB”).