Principal Counsel

Cosima Gräfin von Rechteren

Rechtsanwältin

Languages

German
English
French

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Cosima Gräfin von Rechteren advises and represents German and international clients in proceedings before German courts as well as in national and international arbitration proceedings in a wide range of commercial matters, frequently of an international nature.

She specialises in providing strategic advice to her clients in dealing with mass proceedings and in the international claim management, particularly in the area of product liability and contract law. She also has extensive experience in advising and representing her clients in complex energy law cases, with a focus on concessions and takeovers.

Cosima started her legal career in 2008 at Allen & Overy in Frankfurt before moving on to Bär & Karrer AG, an internationally operating law firm in Zürich, where she worked from 2010 to 2016 and was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 2014. She joined CMS in 2017 as a counsel.

Awards & Recognitions

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„Mit Counsel Cosima von Rechteren, […] verfügt das Team zudem über eine erfahrene Prozessrechtlerin”

The Legal 500 Deutschland, 2021
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Rising star for Energy

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2021

Relevant experience

Strategic advice to one of the largest German corporations in the coordination of worldwide product liability cases (international claim management)
Strategic advice and representation of one of the world's largest car manufacturers in a mass proceeding
Representation of one of the largest German car manufacturers in the defence of a mass proceeding
Representation of a major German bank in the defence of consumer claims (mass proceeding)
Representing EnBW in the dispute with the City of Stuttgart about ownership and value of the water network in Stuttgart
Representation of PRISMA European Capacity Platform in proceedings against ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators) before the Board of Appeal of ACER re ACER's decision on the gas booking platform to be used on the German-Polish border
Representing EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (publicly traded electric utilities company) in the dispute regarding the ownership of high voltage and high pressure grids in Stuttgart
Representing EnBW in the dispute with the City of Stuttgart about ownership and value of the water network in Stuttgart
Representing a German energy supplier in a post-M&A dispute before the District Court of Zurich, Switzerland
Representing a major Austrian bank before the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland against an action for payment (volume: EUR 250 million)
Advising a major Swiss pension fund on asserting claims for damages against a former consultant (volume: CHF 500 million)
Representing a major German bank in disputes regarding investor rights
Representing a major German bank in a high-volume claim brought forward by an insolvency administrator in the context of equity compensation law matters

Publications

Commentary on Section 110 EnWG in: Elspas/Graßmann/Rasbach (eds.), EnWG, 2nd ed. 2023
"Public Benefit – Swiss charitable foundations can play a valuable role in both philantrophic activities and estate planning“, Private Client Adviser, November 2012, Volume 18, Issue 1

Memberships & Roles

International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
German-Swiss Lawyers‘ Association (DSJV)
ASA below 40

Lectures list

The new representative action – a focus on mass proceedings, Ulm, November 2023
Proceedings for the granting of licences under sections 46 ff. German Energy Act (EnWG) – recent developments in case law and practice, Stuttgart, March 2021
The latest on the granting of licences – legal framework, proceedings, selection criteria, Ellwangen (Jagst), July 2018
„Asset Protection – How to structure assets in an anonymous way, whilst meeting the international transparency requirements“, AIJA Annual Congress 2016, München, 23.-27. August 2016

Education

2015: Executive Diploma in Law and Management, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Executive School of Management, Technology and Law
2014: Admitted as a Swiss lawyer
2008: Second state examination in law
2006 - 2008: Trainee lawyer at Darmstadt Regional Court
2004: First state examination in law
1999 - 2004: Law studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution Litigation Arbitration

sectors

Energy & Climate Change

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