Dieter Schwampe’s Post

Every year, Best Lawyers and the highly renowned German commcercial paper Handelsblatt publish a list of whom they hold to be the best German lawyers. I am more than pleased to see that they believe that I belong to this group also in 2024, for the areas of insurance law, maritime commercial law and transport law. I will try even harder to justify that assessment.

See below my contribution to the IUMI Eye June 2024 (https://lnkd.in/db_N4Zhn), which is the quarterly Newsletter of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). As you will read, sometimes it may be better not to co-insure yourself under someone else’s insurance …

The benefits of being an Of Counsel: A couple of days of „dogsitting“ in Zurich, when my son and daughter-in-law take a few days off. Just back with Okami from our first 5 k morning walk in the outskirts of Zurich

This video shows the construction of our Frankfurt office - amazing!

Mission completed. This is a somewhat wistful and certainly memorable day for me. Today, at 11:47h CEST, in the course of the 2024 Assemby of the CMI - Comité Maritime International, I completed my service as an officer of the CMI. I was elected as a member of the Executive Council in 2013 and re-elected in 2016. In 2018, the Assembly elected me as Vice-President and so re-elected me in 2021. This means that for more than a quarter of my professional career as a practicing lawyer (I am now in my fortieth year) I served on the Executive Committee of CMI. Quoting Past-President of the The Maritime Law Association of the United States, Francis Nolan, III: „If you want to see the world and make friends all over it, go into Maritime Law.“ Right he is. During my professional career, I visited 63 countries and made countless friends, a good number of them were present in the room today at the Assembly in Gothenburg. I worked under three distinguished Presidents - Stuart Hetherington, Christopher Davis and Ann Fenech and with 22 Executive Council members of 17 different Maritime Law Associations. It was always a pleasure, and never a burden. While I strove to give my best, I know I did not always succeed, and apologize for when I did not meet the expectations. I will not say good-bye to CMI, but continue engaging in various International Working Groups and Committees, just as I continue with my law practice - though at a slower pace. Because there is also a life beyond Maritime Law. For me this will be more family life and more travelling. With this in mind I happily repeat the three reasons why you will see me at the 2025 CMI Conference in Tokyo: (1) my heart will continue to beat for Maritime Law, (2) my wife and me will visit our son and our Japanese daughter in law, who live in Japan for over 10 years and (3) after 43 years, my wife and I will repeat a trip we did when we were young: with a cargo boat from Kagoshima (Kyushu) island-hopping the Amami Islands down to Okinawa and further south to Ishigaki and Iriomote. You will hear from me. In this sense: no good-bye, but rather see you soon. The photo on the left shows me during my last address to the Assembly (thanks go to Johannes Grove Nielsen), the right shows me, already as Past Vice-President, with President Ann Fenech, continuing Vice-President John O‘Connor and freshly elected new Vice-President Alexander von Ziegler. Congratulations and best wishes to Alex!

Today, the 2024 Colloquium of the CMI - Comité Maritime International kicked of with a full day meeting of the CMI Executive Council. Really looking forward to a fascinating event in an exciting city full of friendly people (see at https://lnkd.in/eVWqsGZq )

There are worse ways of going to the office on a sunny day than by the public ferry in the port of Hamburg

One of the fruit baskets available daily on all office floors for all members of ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN for a healthy start into the day.