Detlev Kühner
Partner

Detlev Kühner

Career profil

With more than 25 years of experience, Detlev started to work as Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration between 1998 and 2004. Since then, Detlev has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings. His field of competence also covers the pre and post arbitration stage, in particular the enforcement of arbitral awards and annulment proceedings. Detlev also advises in contract matters and represents clients in expertise and state court proceedings.

Languages

German, French and English

Admissions

Stuttgart; Paris

Education

Graduate of the Universities of Heidelberg, Lausanne and Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Expertises

Membership

ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR

Association Suisse d’Arbitrage (ASA)

Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)

Association Française d’Arbitrage (AFA)

International Arbitration Institute (IAI)

SCL France (Society of Construction Law)

Accolades

Lexology Index (former Who's Who) 2026

Arbitration 2026 – Highly Recommended

Lexology Index (former Who's Who) 2025

France 2025 – Arbitration – Recommended

Centre de Médiation et d'Arbitrage de Paris

Leaders League 2026 Dispute Resolution

Arbitrators: Highly recommended

Commercial litigation up to 100M: Highly recommended

International arbitration: Recommended

Best Lawyers 2027

International Arbitration (since 2018)
Arbitration and Mediation (since 2018)

Publications

2021

Less is more: The ICC Expedited Procedure Provisions four years after their entry into force – a success story

 

2020

Less is more: Soft law in international arbitration: the Prague Rules one year after their entry into force – a true alternative to the IBA Rules?

 

2019

Less is more: The International Chambers of the Paris Commercial Court and the Paris Court of Appeals

 

2018

  • Annulment and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in France (CEPANI40 Colloquium, October 18, 2018, “Annulment and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards from a Comparative Law Perspective”)
  • The Comprehensive Guide to International Arbitration (CHBECK)

 

2017

  • Less is more: The fate of multi-tiered arbitration clauses—a welcome clarification of the consequences of noncompliance with multi-tiered arbitration clauses in Germany and France

 

2016

  • Less is more: Enforcement of arbitral awards in France—the “French touch” makes it a little easier than elsewhere!
  • Failure to Participate in Arbitration in “The Principle of Adversarial Proceedings in Arbitration,” Francarbi series, Bruylant 2016, 33–50

 

2015

  • Less is more: The enforcement of international arbitral awards: strategic considerations when the New York Convention does not apply
  • Conditions for Valid Award Notifications Under the 2011 French Decree (in ASA Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 4, 2015, 929–937, co-authored with Amany Chamieh)
  • Author of the chapter “Arbitration in Germany”: *ICC Arbitration in Germany*, Kluwer, 1st edition 2007 and 2nd edition 2015 (co-author)

 

2014

  • The Impact of a Party’s Insolvency on Arbitration Agreements: The Case of France and Germany (Journal of International Arbitration, 2014-31, 807–818)

 

2010-2011

  • The New AFA Arbitration Rules (in *Journal of International Arbitration*, 2011-28, 519–534)
  • The New French Arbitration Law (in SchiedsVZ 3/2011, 125–131)
  • “The Revised IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration” (in *Journal of International Arbitration*, 2010-27, 667–677)
  • Panorama of World Case Law – Germany/Austria: a regular contribution to the Paris Journal of International Arbitration