Dr Sebastian Louven Appointed to the Hamm Bar Association’s Specialist Committee for International Business Law

The Exe­cu­ti­ve Board of the Hamm Bar Asso­cia­ti­on (Rechts­an­walts­kam­mer Hamm) has appoin­ted me as a full mem­ber of its Spe­cia­list Com­mit­tee for Inter­na­tio­nal Busi­ness Law. The Com­mit­tee forms part of the sta­tu­to­ry frame­work gover­ning cer­ti­fied spe­cia­list lawy­ers in Inter­na­tio­nal Busi­ness Law in Germany.

The Hamm Bar Asso­cia­ti­on is one of Germany’s sta­tu­to­ry regio­nal bar asso­cia­ti­ons. Its respon­si­bi­li­ties include over­see­ing the admis­si­on and pro­fes­sio­nal con­duct of lawy­ers within its juris­dic­tion as well as the Ger­man sys­tem of cer­ti­fied spe­cia­list lawy­ers (Fach­an­wäl­te).

The Spe­cia­list Com­mit­tee for Inter­na­tio­nal Busi­ness Law exami­nes appli­ca­ti­ons from lawy­ers see­king the for­mal desi­gna­ti­on of Fach­an­walt für Inter­na­tio­na­les Wirt­schafts­recht (Cer­ti­fied Spe­cia­list Lawy­er for Inter­na­tio­nal Busi­ness Law).

In par­ti­cu­lar, the Com­mit­tee asses­ses whe­ther appli­cants have demons­tra­ted the spe­cial theo­re­ti­cal know­ledge and prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence requi­red under the Ger­man Spe­cia­list Lawy­ers Regu­la­ti­ons (Fach­an­walts­ord­nung). Fol­lo­wing its assess­ment, the Com­mit­tee sub­mits its final opi­ni­on to the Exe­cu­ti­ve Board of the Hamm Bar Asso­cia­ti­on, which deci­des on the award of the spe­cia­list designation.

As of 1 Sep­tem­ber 2026, the Com­mit­tee con­sists of Dr Wolf­gang Nockel­mann, Dr Chris­ti­an Schlei­fen­baum and myself.

I have held the desi­gna­ti­on of Fach­an­walt für Inter­na­tio­na­les Wirt­schafts­recht sin­ce 2022.