born in 1957; Dr. Thomas R. Klötzel stud­ied law at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Tübin­gen and Gene­va; ad­mis­sion to the Ger­man Bar in 1986. From 1987 to 1988 Dr. Klötzel was the head of the firm’s Sin­ga­pore of­fice. He is a lec­tur­er in For­eign Law at the ESB Eu­ro­pean School of Busi­ness of Reut­lin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty. In ad­di­tion, he is a mem­ber of the In­ter­na­tion­al Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, the Ger­man In­sti­tu­tion of Ar­bi­tra­tion and a board mem­ber of both, the Ger­man-British Ju­rists’ As­so­ci­a­tion and the Ger­man-Sin­ga­pore Lawyers’ As­so­ci­a­tion.

Dr. Klötzel’s prac­tice fo­cus­es on in­ter­na­tion­al civ­il pro­ce­dure law and com­mer­cial ar­bi­tra­tion, where he acts both as ar­bi­tra­tor and coun­sel. He has wide ex­pe­ri­ence in ad­vis­ing com­pa­nies on their in­vest­ment ac­tiv­i­ties in Asia, in par­tic­u­lar in In­dia, Malaysia, Sin­ga­pore, Chi­na and Tai­wan, on is­sues re­lat­ing to the in­cor­po­ra­tion of sub­sidiaries, struc­tur­ing and ne­go­ti­a­tion of joint ven­ture agree­ments – in­clud­ing an­cil­lary agree­ments such as li­cence – man­u­fac­tur­ing, and dis­tri­bu­tion and agen­cy agree­ments. Dr. Thomas R. Klötzel’s strength in lit­i­ga­tion lies in his ex­pe­ri­ence in han­dling com­plex lit­i­ga­tion in var­i­ous state fo­rums, in par­tic­u­lar patent cas­es.

Dr. Klötzel is a fre­quent speak­er at var­i­ous na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions on mat­ters re­lat­ing to his prac­tice ar­eas. Pa­pers pre­sent­ed by him have been pub­lished in var­i­ous na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al jour­nals.