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Inga Witte
Counsel

Inga Witte, LL.M. int.

Rechtsanwältin

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Spanish
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Inga Witte advises and represents clients in international arbitration proceedings as well as in complex litigation proceedings before German state courts (including enforcement proceedings, setting-aside proceedings and interim relief). Drawing on her extensive experience as tribunal secretary under various applicable laws and institutional rules, Inga also serves as arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

Her practice focuses on large construction and engineering cases (including FIDIC). Inga has a particular expertise in the energy sector. She has also gained extensive experience with cross-border disputes involving distribution agreements, joint venture agreements, Post M&A matters, long-term supply contracts, the international sale of goods, and other commercial contracts, especially in the pharma, transport, automotive and technology sectors.

Inga joined CMS in 2023 after two years with a leading dispute resolution boutique. Previously, she also worked as an international arbitration trainee in Zurich. She was promoted to Counsel in 2026.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Listed as a leading lawyer in arbitration
    WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2025, 2026; In cooperation with: Handelsblatt Research Institute

Relevant experience

  • Advised and represented a German company in multiple parallel interim injunction proceedings before German state courts surrounding a multi-million expansion project in the transportation and logistics sector.
  • Advised and represented a German contractor in a DIS arbitration seated in Germany in a complex plant construction dispute.
  • Advised and represented a German manufacturer of medical devices and its Hong Kong parent company in interim injunction proceedings in Germany as well as DIS arbitration seated in Germany regarding the termination of a distribution agreement and the underlying joint venture dispute.
  • Advised a Spanish employer in complex construction dispute with a Dutch contractor on delay, disruption and defect claims.
  • Advised and represented a Spanish company and its German subsidiary in setting-aside proceedings and related disputes on the termination of a lease agreement.
  • Advised and represented a Dutch recycling company before German state courts in a dispute about the termination of a supply agreement and damages.
  • Advised and represented a German Fintech company in a dispute with a French company on termination of a services agreement with parallel proceedings in France and Germany.
  • Sole Arbitrator, Presiding Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.
  • Secretary to the Arbitral Tribunal in numerous international and domestic arbitrations under various applicable laws and institutional rules (ICC, DIS, SCC, DIA, LCIA, Swiss Rules, VIAC, FAI, ICSID, ad hoc).

Publications

  • BGH denies interim suspension of enforcement measures in complex trade secret dispute because underlying arguments against recognition and enforcement lack sufficient prospects of success, Case Note on BGH, Order of 05.02.2025 – I ZB 78/24, GAD 2025, 19, available at https://www.disarb.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Wissen/GAD/2025/GAD_2025-19_BGH_I_ZB_78-24.pdf
  • The Exception in Theory, a Unicorn in Practice? Revisiting Security for Costs from a Practitioner's Perspective, Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook (SAY) 2022, S. 39-57
  • Interactions between International Investment Law and Constitutional Law: Promoting the Dialogue. A European Perspective on Cooperation and Deference, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Max Planck UNYB) 2017 (Vol. 21), S. 468-574

Memberships & Roles

  • German Arbitration Institute (DIS) / DIS 40
  • Latin America Association (LAV) / LAV Young Professionals
  • ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)
  • Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) Below 40
  • International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
  • Hamburg Arbitration Circle e.V.

Lectures list

  • Interim Measures in International Arbitration, AfGAC Training for Law Students, African-German Arbitration Cooperation, Online, 30.04.2026
  • Interim Measures in International Arbitration, AfGAC Training for Law Students, African-German Arbitration Cooperation, Online, 09.12.2025
  • Absent But Not Forgotten: Managing Defaulting Parties in Arbitration, ICC YAAF, Berlin, 09.09.2025
  • Prozesskostensicherheit im Schiedsverfahren, #zukunft Podcast (Episode 22), Online, 08.11.2023

Since 2025, Inga also regularly lectures on international arbitration, especially on interim relief, as part of a collaboration between various African arbitration institutions and the African-German Arbitration Cooperation.

Education

  • 2018 - 2020: Trainee lawyer at Hamburg Higher Regional Court including placements at the European Commission (Directorate General Trade), Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte and the Federal Constitutional Court
  • 2017 - 2018: LL.M. in International Law: Investments, Trade and Arbitration, cooperation of the University of Heidelberg and the University of Chile and supported by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  • 2011 - 2017: Law studies at the University of Goettingen

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