Christian Wirth is the head of the German Dispute Resolution practice. He is a leading litigator and has advised both German and international clients on a range of high profile and innovative matters over recent years. Christian Wirth specializes in the insurance sector as well as the banking and financial sector. He regularly represents plaintiffs and defendants before civil courts and arbitral tribunals and supports clients in their efforts to put effective risk management systems in place.

As a Certified Lawyer for Insurance Law (Fachanwalt für Versicherungsrecht) Christian Wirth advises leading German and international clients from the insurance sector and from industry in the field of private insurance law, which includes all types of industry and liability insurance, on all issues relating to existing insurance contracts as well the design of new contracts. He has comprehensive experience in the legal assessment and structuring of complex insurance programs, including cross-border programs, and of individually tailored coverage. His advice focuses especially on major claims, captive solutions, reinsurance and alternative risk transfer.
In the private banking sector, Christian Wirth, who is a Certified Lawyer for Bank and Capital Market Law (Fachanwalt für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht), advises and represents domestic and international clients especially with regard to fundamental and liability issues of bank law. His practice includes advising on risk management for major rescue loans. Christian Wirth has successfully represented a range of banks with regard to allegedly deficient prospectuses and investment advice in connection with unsuccessful capital investment products. In the transactions field Christian Wirth specializes in structuring the risk assessment of credit portfolios, including both performing and non-performing loans.

Christian Wirth is the author of a number of publications on issues of banking and insurance law and is a member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS), and of the German Bar Association's working groups on bank and capital markets law an on insurance law. He directs the working group section "International insurance law/insurance supervision law". Christian Wirth is also the author of the course unit on business interruption insurance of the Euroforum management training course "Insurance contracts and management in enterprises".

Bars and Courts
Certified Lawyer for Bank and Capital Market Law, 2008
Certified Insurance Lawyer, 2006
Rechtsanwalt, 1992

Education
Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court of Berlin, 1992
First State Exam, Free University of Berlin, 1988

Professional Associations and Memberships
Working Group Insurance Law of the German Bar Association
Head of Working Group International Insurance Law/Insurance Supervision Law of the German Bar Association
Working Group Bank & Capital Market Law of the German Bar Association
DIS - German Institution for Arbitration
ARIAS – Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society

Awards and Recognition
Highly Recommended Lawyer:
Insurance Law, JUVE 2011/2012
Dispute Resolution, JUVE 2011/2012
Leading Individual:
Arbitration and Mediation, Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt 2011
Insurance Law, Chambers Europe 2011, Germany
Insurance Law, PLC Which Lawyer? 2011, Germany

Publications
"Policy holders’ pre-contractual duties of disclosure – an international comparisonVorvertragliche (Aufklärungspflichten des Versicherungsnehmers – Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung)", Spektrum für Versicherungsrecht, Issue 3, Pages 47-54, 2011
Co-author, "Duties of proper organization pursuant to Section 64a VAG – the beginnings of a harmonization of duties of proper organization in the financial sector (Organisationspflichten nach § 46a VAG - beginnende Vereinheitlichung der Organisationspflichten in der Finanzwirtschaft)", CZZ, Issue 3, Page 95 et seqq., 2010 (with Frederik Paul)
Co-author, "Requirements for a real estate vendor's interest in the maintenance of the property to be included in the coverage provided by the insurance taken out by the buyer (Anforderungen an die Einbeziehung des Sacherhaltungsinteresses des Grundstücksverkäufers in die vom Käufer abgeschlossene Versicherung)", VersR, Issue 33, Page 1531 et seqq., 2009 (with Frederik Paul)

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Languages
German
English

Citizenship
Germany