Contract Champions
Community for emerging and established contract experts. A place to exchange concepts and knowledge among lawyers.
About
Contracts that catch the risk,
Contracts that catch the risk,
before it materializes.
That's the idea I founded INN.LAW on in 2015. International business law in a solo practice, with substance over scale. One client, one sparring partner, one contract that holds.
Substance
What I bring to the table.
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Specialist titles
Certified Specialist (Fachanwalt) for International Business Law and for Commercial and Corporate Law.
DIS
Arbitrator
Arbitrator in DIS arbitrations (German Arbitration Institute).
ICC
Commission CLP
Member of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice in Paris. Contributor to international model contract clauses.
1 of 2
ICC trainer Incoterms 2020
One of two ICC-registered Incoterms 2020 trainers in Germany.
3,000+
Trained professionals
Over 200 seminars, webinars, and in-house sessions since 2007. CISG, Standard Terms, contract negotiation, compliance.
20 yrs.
Business law
Bar admission 2007. Stations in Germany and abroad, own firm since 2015.
Career
Stations that shaped my practice.
Born 1976 in Romania, moved to Germany in 1987. Law studies and trainee work with international stations, then Düsseldorf as a business-law home base. Own firm since 2015.
- 2015–today Founder and owner INN.LAW Düsseldorf
- 2010–2014 Attorney, later partner ADKL Düsseldorf
- 2008–2010 Attorney Hoffmann Liebs Partnerschaft Düsseldorf
- 2007 Attorney (commercial) Beiten Burkhardt Düsseldorf
- 2006 Legal trainee (incl. German Embassy) – Zagreb
- 2005 Intern Tilleke & Gibbins, German Embassy Bangkok
Beyond Practice
Engagement beyond client work.
FXFlat Bank AG
Supervisory mandate at a regulated securities trading bank.
Privately: committed European, investor, open-source sympathizer. For free and fair global trade. On two wheels, Triumph.
Reach
Languages, industries, teaching.
Languages
- German Business language
- English Fluent (business)
- Romanian Native
Industries
Teaching and training
- BeckAkademie (Verlag C.H. Beck)
- German chambers of commerce (IHK), IHK Export Academy
- ICC Germany e.V.
- Reguvis
- Otto Schmidt Verlag
Over 3,000 participants in over 200 sessions since 2007.
How I work
Plain talk, commercial pragmatism, no Latin.
Plain talk
I explain complex matters in plain language. A decision doesn't depend on legal depth, it depends on whether the decision-maker understands it. A contract the client doesn't understand is a risk in a dispute, not protection.
Commercial pragmatism
A contract serves the business, not the lawyer. I start with what you want to achieve, then ask how the law supports or breaks it. I don't sell hours, I sell clarity about risk and room to move.
Why boutique over BigLaw
In a large firm, mandates change hands, contracts change desks, knowledge changes generations. In a solo practice, the contract stays with the person who drafted it. Depth over breadth. Accountability without shift rotation.
Publications
Writing that someone can cite later.
- 2026 Standard Terms Commentary (Feldhusen/Niebling), 5th ed., co-author, commentary on UN Sales Law (CISG) Luchterhand Verlag (forthcoming, ca. September 2026)
- 2023 Standard Terms Commentary (Feldhusen/Niebling), 4th ed., co-author, commentary on UN Sales Law (CISG) Luchterhand Verlag
- 2022 German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, A practitioners’ overview Springer Verlag
- 2022 Contractual implementation of compliance requirements in the supply chain comply 1/2022
- 2021 ICC Model Contracts for Start-ups ICC
- 2021 Anglo-American Legal Language, The Practitioners’ Guide to Applied Comparative Law LexisNexis
- 2019 Incoterms 2020 Außenwirtschaft aktuell, IHK Stuttgart
- 2019 Incoterms 2020 FOREIGN TRADE 4/2019
- 2018 Industry 4.0, Can machines conclude contracts? IHK Magazine September 2018
- 2013 Standard Terms Law Newsletter (monthly) Deutscher AnwaltVerlag
- 2005 Using Anti-Dumping for Business Advantage ACC Docket June 2005
- 2005 Thailand: Commercial Developments, 2004 in Review Tilleke & Gibbins