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Andreas J Roquette
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Andreas J Roquette, LL.M. (NYU)

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Berlin, Germany
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  • German
  • English
  • French
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Andreas J. Roquette deals with large domestic and international infrastructure, plant engineering, construction and transport projects, including front end work, ongoing advice and dispute resolution. He represents companies in major court and arbitration proceedings and regularly acts as conciliator and arbitrator.

Andreas studied law in Munich, Paris and New York and is admitted as a lawyer in Germany and attorney-at-law in New York. After one year with Sullivan & Cromwell, he joined CMS in Berlin in 1993 and has been a partner since 1996.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Listed for Conflict Resolution
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Construction Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    "Andreas is an eminent name in Germany"
    Lexology Index 2025
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    "Andreas is very well respected within the industry"
    Lexology Index 2025
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    "I have deep trust in Andreas' abilities and would recommend him for any matter in Germany"
    Lexology Index 2025
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    Nennung als Top Anwalt für den Bereich Privates Baurecht
    WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2025; In Kooperation mit: Handelsblatt Research Institute
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    „Oft empfohlen“ für Immobilien- und Baurecht
    JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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    „fachl. top, gründl., menschl. angenehm“, Wettbewerber
    JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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    Listed for Conflict Resolution
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Construction Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Lawyer of the Year for Construction Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2024
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    „Oft empfohlen“ für Immobilien- und Baurecht
    JUVE Handbuch, 2023/2024
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    Listed as "Global Elite Thought Leader"
    Who's Who Legal 2023
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    "Andreas Roquette is an established name in the German and international construction market, well versed in complex construction and engineering projects."
    Who's Who Legal 2023
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    "He is very well known in the construction world.", client
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    Listed as leading individual
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    Listed for Dispute Resolution
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Construction Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    „Oft empfohlen“ für Immobilien- und Baurecht
    JUVE Handbuch, 2022/2023
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    Nennung für Baurecht
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2022 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    "Recommended" for Real Estate
    JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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    "very precise and thinks in economic terms", client; "outstanding expertise, thorough, a nice person", competitor
    JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2022
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    Listed as Leading Individual
    Chambers Europe, 2022
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    Nennung als Top Anwalt für den Bereich Privates Baurecht
    WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2022; In Kooperation mit: Handelsblatt Research Institute
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    Listed as notable practitioner
    Chambers Europe, 2021
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    „Andreas Roquette aufgrund seiner vor- und außergerichtlichen Erfahrung im Bausektor bekannt […]; bemerkenswerterweise wird er zudem vermehrt als Schlichter und Schiedsrichter in nationalen wie auch internationalen Streitigkeiten benannt”
    The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2021
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    Listed for Construction and Conflict Resolution
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2021 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Nennung als Top Anwalt für den Bereich Privates Baurecht
    WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2021; In Kooperation mit: Handelsblatt Research Institute
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    Listed for construction law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2020 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed as Notable practitioner for Projects: Construction
    Chambers Europe, 2020
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    Listed as "Global Elite Thought Leader"
    Who's Who Legal 2020 – Construction
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    Nennung als besonders empfohlener Anwalt für den Bereich Baurecht
    WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2020; In Kooperation mit: Handelsblatt Research Institute
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    „fachl. top, gründlich, menschlich angenehm“, Wettbewerber
    JUVE Handbuch, 2019/2020
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    "Andreas Roquette is described as 'an outstandingly good practitioner, and a very fair negotiator' and comes 'highly recommended' by peers in the German market."
    Who's Who Legal 2019 – Construction
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    "Andreas Roquette receives praise for his work on large construction projects in the energy, infrastructure and projects sectors where he is regarded as 'a very fair and targeted negotiator'."
    Who's Who Legal 2018 – Construction
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    "He makes complex construction matters simple and understandable for the tribunal."
    Chambers Europe, 2017
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    "able to look beyond purely legal concerns", competitor
    JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2017 (GCLF)
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    "Andreas Roquette heads the firm's construction group. He has a particularly strong reputation […] relating to infrastructure, transport and plant construction."
    Chambers Europe, 2015
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    "Interviewees note Andreas Roquette for his expertise in construction matters. Clients say: ‘He has a very good strategy, and he thinks a few steps ahead, so in negotiations he knows where the other side is going. […] he is assertive at the right moment.’"
    Chambers Europe, 2014

Relevant experience

  • Advising and representing an international plant construction company in relation to the construction of a gas and steam turbine power plant in Berlin Lichterfelde under a FIDIC Silver Book contract, including representation in adjudication procedure and in a follow-up ICC arbitration procedure
  • Representing a Spanish energy company (plaintiff) in ICC arbitration proceedings regarding supplementary budget and construction schedules in relation to the construction of the shell of and pipe system for a gas turbine power plant on a Caribbean island
  • Arbitrator in proceedings concerning the extension of a subway line between the municipal project company and the general contractor
  • Presiding arbitrator in a DIS arbitration concerning the expansion and modernisation of a large chemical plant - subject matter was technical addenda and a claim for construction delay and interruption
  • Advising HOCHTIEF Solutions as the general contractor on strategic issues as well as on the re-organisation of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg construction project
  • Advising Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BBI) on the construction of the new airport in Berlin and representing BBI vis-à-vis general contractors and planners

Publications

  • Mr. Roquette regularly publishes on specialized topics. He is the editor and co-author of three hand-books, ongoing collaborator of the Construction Law Journal and Country Correspondent of the International Construction Law Review for Germany.Selected Publication:
  • Same but Different - Substantiierung von Bauzeitansprüchen vor staatlichen Gerichten und in Schiedsverfahren, RInPrax 1/2025, Roquette/Sudkamp, 26 ff.
  • The More, the Merrier: Streitverkündung in baurechtlichen Schiedsverfahren nach Einführung der DIS-ERSengl.: Third-Party Notices in Construction Arbitration Disputes after the Introduction of the DIS-ERS, BauR, 10/2024, co-author: Deborah Keller
  • SOLVING THE THIRD WHEEL DILEMMA: DIS SUPPLEMENTARY RULES FOR THIRD-PARTY NOTICES, International Construction Law Review (ICLR), 3/2024, 343 ff., co-author: Deborah Keller
  • A fine line – Admissibility of Global Claims), SchiedsVZ 4/2023, 177, ICLR to be published 2024, co-author: Dr. Henry Stieglmeier
  • International Construction Disputes, C.H. Beck, 1. Auflage 2022
  • Handbuch Bauzeit, Werner Verlag, 4. Auflage 2021
  • Unnecessary Complexity – Recent Developments in German Construction Law, ICLS, (4) 2020, 380 ff.
  • Bauablaufstörungen in COVID-19-Zeiten, Baurecht, Zeitschrift für das gesamte öffentliche und private Baurecht (BauR) 2020, 695; co-author: Deborah Wurm
  • Vertragsbuch Privates Baurecht, C.H. Beck, 3. Auflage 2020
  • Light into Darkness: ICC Commission Report on Construction Industry Arbitration, SchiedsVZ 2019, 320
  • At the End of the Rainbow - The new FIDIC Dispute Adjudication/Avoidance Board, SchiedsVZ 4/2018, 233
  • The New Arbitration Rules of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS): An Introduction to the New Dis-Rules from a Construction Arbitration Perspective; International Construction Law Review (ICLR, (3) 2018, p. 289, co-author: Dr. Tom Christopher Pröstler, LL.M.
  • Up to Date Arbitration – Die neue DIS-Schiedsgerichtsordnung; BauR 6/2018, 900 ff., co-author: Dr Tom Christopher Pröstler, LL.M.
  • Yes we can! – Zu den Anforderungen an eine konkrete bauablaufbezogene Darstellung, BauR 3/2018, 422 ff., co-author: Johannes Bescher
  • Germany enacts New Construction Law, The International Construction Law Review, 10/2017, 443 ff., co-author: Dr Daniel Schweiger
  • The Need for Speed – Das beschleunigte Schiedsverfahren nach den neuen ICC-Regeln, BauR 7/2017, 1119 ff., co-author: Judith Eirich
  • A Different Kind of Animal – Besonderheiten im Anlagenbau, BauR 2a/2017, 342, co-author: Daniel Fussy
  • All Inclusive oder nicht? - Vollständigkeitsklauseln sind Preisnebenabreden und keine Vereinbarung zu Leistung und Gegenleistung, BauR 6/2015, 909 ff., co-author: Vogt
  • Vom Mythos der AGK – Die Behandlung Allgemeiner Geschäftskosten bei Bauzeitnachträgen – BauR 9/2010, 1468
  • Detaillierter versus funktionaler Leistungsbeschrieb – Rechte, Pflichten und Risiken bei Einheits-, Detailpauschal- und Globalpauschalvertrag – BauR Februar 2010, 293, co-author: Acker
  • Orientierung im Ursachendschungel - Behandlung von Mehrfachursachen bei gestörten Bauabläufen, BauR Oktober 2009, p. 1506 ff., co-author: Daniel Fussy
  • Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit im Bau und Anlagenbau, Freiberger Handbuch zum Baurecht, 3. Auflage, Bundesanzeiger Verlag 2008, p. 415 ff.; co-author: Loercher
  • Mut zum Umdenken – Baugerichtstag beschließt Einführung der Adjudication, BauR 2008, p. 1779
  • Dichter Nebel bei Bauzeitclaims – Navigationshilfen zur Darlegungs- und Beweislast sowie zur Schätzung, BauR 2005, p. 1829 ff, co-author: Nino Laumann
  • Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - ein Glaubensbekenntnis? Pro und Contra von Schiedsgerichten im Bauwesen, insbesondere solchen nach der SGO Bau und der SO-Bau 2004, Jahrbuch Baurecht 2004, 269, co-author: Kunkel
  • Pauschal ist Pauschal! Kein Anspruch auf zusätzliche Vergütung bei bewusster Übernahme von Vollständigkeitsrisiken, BauR 2004, p. 736 ff, co-author: Paul
  • Jahrbuch Baurecht, Praktische Erwägungen zur Bauzeit bei Vertragsgestaltung und baubegleitender Beratung 2002, p. 33
  • Vollständigkeitsklauseln: Abwälzung des Risikos unvollständiger oder unrichtiger Leistungsbeschreibungen auf den Auftragnehmer, NZBau 2001, p. 57 f

Memberships & Roles

  • Society of Construction Law (SCL)
  • German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) - Co-Chair of DIS Construction Group
  • Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
  • International Construction Projects Committee (IPC) of the International Bar Association (IBA)
  • London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
  • Deutscher Baugerichtstag
  • Centrum für Deutsches und Internationales Baugrund- und Tiefbaurecht
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Baurecht e.V.
  • Andreas J. Roquette is head of the Working Group Ib (Construction Time) of Deutsche Baugerichtstag. He was also a member of a law working group of a Construction Reform Commission that was set up by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and a member of a working group for out-of-court dispute resolution set up by the Deutsche Baugerichtstag.

Lectures list

Mr. Roquette regularly gives talks, in particular on civil construction law, ADR and Arbitration at conferences and at well-known seminar providers (IBR, Werner Verlag, etc.). Selected presentations:

  • Intensivkurs: Gestörte Bauabläufe - Rechtliche und baubetriebliche Aspekte, IBR, 19.03.2024, Dresden
  • Die zerrinnende Zeit - How to manage Delay and Disruption, VDMA-Vertragsrechtsausschuss, 24.04.2023
  • 8. Deutscher Baugerichtstag, AK Ib/X – Bauvertragsrecht/Baubetrieb - Co-AK-Leiter, 21./22.05.2021
  • Sicherheiten im Projektgeschäft, VDMA-Webkonferenz des Arbeitskreises Claims- und Contractmanagement, 03.03.2021
  • Dos and Don'ts for Effective claims Management under FIDIC - Avoiding, Containing and Handling Claims, FIDIC International Contract Users' Conference, 01.12.2020, London, together with Adrian Bell
  • Smart Contracts: how might technology disruption change construction contracts as we know themThe Drafting of Construction Contracts - Will technology replace the lawyer?, 7th Biennial Conference on Construction Projects from Conception to Completion, 01.11.2019, Berlin
  • Diplomacy in DBs - Compare and Contrast DBs in Civil & Common Law - The German Perspective; 19th Annual International Conference der Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF), 23.05.2019; Berlin
  • Zum Umgang mit der konkreten bauablaufbezogenen Darstellung, 6. IBR Expertenforum zum Baubetrieb und Baurecht, 18.01.2018, Mannheim
  • Civil Law Approach to Force Majeure - Situation in Germany, ICP Session at IBA International Conference, IBA, 12.10.2017, Sydney
  • Strukturierung von Großprojekten - Beispiel Elbphilharmonie, Bucerius Law School, 22.05.2017, Hamburg
  • Sonderprobleme im Anlagenbau, Freiburger Baurechtstage, 16.09.2016
  • Time-Related Obligations in Key Jurisdictions: an Update, International Construction Projects Committee (IPO) at the IBA International Conference Washington DC, 21.09.2016
  • International Construction Law: Bridging Common and Civil Law, ICLA Inaugural Seminar, 24.06.2016, Paris
  • 4. IBR Expertenforum zum Baubetrieb und Baurecht: Die Darlegung von Ansprüchen aus gestörten Bauabläufen, IBR, Mannheim, 01.10.2015
  • Der gerichtsfeste Bauzeitnachtrag – notwendiger Sachvortrag zu Anspruchsgrund und Anspruchshöhe, 43. Baurechtstagung der ARGE Baurecht im DAV, 21.03.2014
  • "Das Gesetz der Großprojekte – Sind Kostenexplosionen und Terminverschiebungen vermeidbar?", RICS-Veranstaltung bei CMS, 27.02.2013

Education

  • 1989 & 1992: First and second state examination in law in Munich
  • Studies abroad in Paris (Université Réné Déscartes: Maîtrise en Droit, 1986) and New York (New York University: LL.M. in Corporation Law, 1992)
  • Law studies in Munich
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution Real Estate & Public Arbitration Litigation Real Estate & Public - Construction

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