Tim Rauschning
Areas of practice
Tim Rauschning specialises in complex disputes, in particular international arbitrations (including the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards). His focus lies on disputes relating to commercial and corporate law, to the energy and infrastructure sectors as well as on investment disputes (investor-state disputes settlement, ISDS), including ICSID arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). He also advises investors regarding the protection of the foreign investments against political risks and is experienced with complex damage issues concerning business valuations.
In the energy and infrastructure sector, he advises and represents clients in particular in all disputes along the value chain of energy companies (especially, energy generation and distribution). He has experience with conventional and renewable energy sources as well as mining projects.
As a member of Luther’s Central- und South America Team, his regional focus is on Latin America.
Vita
Tim Rauschning studied law in Passau (Germany), Tours (France) and Kiel (Germany). At Kiel University, he was also a lecturer in the master programme “International Politics & International Law”. As a legal trainee (Rechtsreferendar), he worked, inter alia, in the litigation and arbitration department of a major international law firm, at the United Nation’s Office of Legal Affairs and the German Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Tim Rauschning joined Luther in 2012 where he is a member of the Complex Disputes practice group and the Energy industry group. 2017 he made a secondment in the arbitration department of a major Brazilian law firm in São Paulo/Brazil.
He is a Regional Co-Chair of the DIS40 (German Initiative of Young Arbitrators). He regularly speaks and publishes on arbitration as well as investment law topics.
Tim Rauschning is a German national and speaks – in addition to German and English – Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Honors and distinctions
- The Legal 500 Germany 2025: Recommendation in the category "Dispute Resolution - Arbitration (including International Arbitration)" (first recommendation in 2023, "Tim Rauschning: He practises effective project management.")
- Lexology Index 2025 (former WWL Who’s Who Legal): Award "Future Leader" in "Arbitration – Future Leaders: Partners" ("Tim is a rising star and incredibly thoughtful", "He is very detail oriented and excellent at collaborating with experts", "He is a great emerging arbitrator and a good strategist", first award in 2021) and recommendation "National Leader" in "Germany - Arbitration" (first recommendation in 2024)
- Best Lawyers 2025: Recommended in "International Arbitration", "Arbitration and Mediation" (first recommended in 2022) and "Litigation"
Clients
- Vattenfall AB et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany – Advising and representing the major Swedish energy utility Vattenfall in an ICSID arbitration based on the ECT concerning the German nuclear phase-out (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12)
- E.ON SE et al. v. Kingdom of Spain – Advising and representing the major German energy utility E.ON in an ICSID arbitration based on the ECT concerning fundamental regulatory changes in the renewable energy sector (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/35)
- Advising various European energy and mining companies concerning claims under investment protection agreements arising out of the phase-out of coal-fired power generation in Western and Central European states
- Advising an Eastern European state-owned enterprise concerning an ICC arbitration regarding claims under an air charter agreement
- Advising a leading German health care company concerning a DIS arbitration regarding claims against a Mexican distributor
- German Investors v. Czech Republic – Advising and representing German investors in an ad hoc BIT arbitration seated in Switzerland concerning tariff cuts for renewable energy facilities
- German Investors v. Venezuela – Advising a German investor concerning a potential investment arbitration regarding the expropriation of a company in the agricultural sector
Publications
- Project Finance: Germany, Getting the Deal Through
- Digest of ICSID Awards and Decisions 2008-2010
- Germany [A Review of German Arbitral Jurisprudence in 2015 and 2016]
- Country Chapter Germany "The European Arbitration Review 2017"
- Germany [A Review of German Arbitral Jurisprudence in 2014 und 2015]
- Bearbeitung des Kapitels "A Review of German Arbitration Law in 2014 and 2015", in: Global Arbitration Review, Edition "EMEA Arbitration Review 2015" (gemeinsam mit Tim Rauschning)
- German Federal Supreme Court paves states additional route to escape enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
- The Procurement and Use of Armed UAVs by the German Military in International and German Law
Blog posts
Lectures
Memberships
- DIS & DIS40 – German Institute for Arbitration
- ELArb – European-Latinamerican Arbitration Association
- LAV & LAV juniors – Business Association for Latin America
- ASA below 40 – Swiss Arbitration Association
- ICC YAF – Young Arbitrators Forum
- LCIA YIAG – Young International Arbitration Group
- YAAP – Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners
- Young ICCA – International Council for Commercial Arbitration
- Young ICSID – International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Luca Thönes, LL.M. (Miami)
Senior Legal Consultant
Hamburg
Tarik Bilici, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Dusseldorf
Małgorzata Albe, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Leipzig
Dr.iur. Andreas Knaul, LL.M. diap (ENA)
Berlin
Dennis Gerdes
Senior Consultant
Hamburg
Nele Wachholz
Associate
Hamburg
Sophie Schulz
Associate
Leipzig
Liza Knecht
Associate
Leipzig
Lilith Boos
Associate
Dusseldorf
Fabien Benjamin Wehner, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Associate
Stuttgart
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Henrik Fischer
Associate
Leipzig
Lara Zölck
Associate
Berlin
Ahmed Zoughbi
Associate
Dusseldorf
Paula Dresler
Associate
Berlin
Iman Bayrouti
Associate
Essen
Dr Valerie Blettenberg
Associate
Munich
Maike Böttcher
Associate
Hanover
Jacqueline Dutz
Associate
Leipzig
Quirin Wedel, LL.M. (London)
Associate
Hamburg
Jade Timmermann, LL.M. (London)
Associate
Leipzig
David Nückel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Julia Walther
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Jannik Bel
Associate
Cologne
Sophia Meyer, Maître en Droit
Associate
Berlin
Julian Wantzen, LL.M. (Wellington)
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Marie Hoster, LL.B.
Associate
Essen, Dusseldorf
Arne Stumpe
Associate
Hamburg
Tillmann Kamp
Associate
Cologne
Dr Jan-Lukas Henkst
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Christopher Borho
Associate
Stuttgart
Elisa Röhr
Associate
Dusseldorf
Selin Sahin
Associate
Dusseldorf
Lukas Erdmann
Associate
Berlin
Dr Jana Karras
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Thomas Schwieters
Associate
Hanover
Daniel Stracke
Associate
Berlin
Fabienne Scharfe, LL.M. (Tulane, New Orleans)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Lena-Annika Kauer
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Stephanie Quaß
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Maxim Oertel
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dr Frederic Tewes
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Jenny Tsynn
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Samira Altdorf, LL.M. (Brussels School of Competition)
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Ludger Gruber
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Hannah Aigner
Senior Associate
Munich
Christoph Schnoor
Senior Associate
Hamburg
David Wölting
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Linda Kirchhoff
Senior Associate
Munich
Volkan Top
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Christina Göbel
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Jan Zimmer
Senior Associate
Singapore
Pauline Müller
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Lasse Langfeldt, LL.M. (Uppsala), LL.M. (Brussels School of Competition)
Senior Associate
Brussels
Benedikt Stücker
Senior Associate
Hanover
Vanessa Meireles Schilling, LL.M. (Geneva MIDS)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Roberto Pirschel
Senior Associate
Leipzig
David Bündgens
Senior Associate
Cologne
Jael Marquardt
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Ann-Kristin Freiheit
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Yelena Bade
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Bernhard Burkert, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Counsel
Berlin
Benjamin Schwenker
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Franz-Rudolf Groß, LL.M. (London)
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Dr Mathias Mailänder
Counsel
Hamburg
Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig
Ekkehard Hübel
Counsel
Hamburg
Ramona Hubracht, LL.M. Taxation
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Benedikt Rechner
Counsel
Berlin
Marc Urlichs
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Cosima Flock
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Marie Romero
Counsel
Luxembourg
Dr Johannes Becker
Counsel
Cologne
Dr Marco Jerczynski
Counsel
Essen
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen
Rebecca Romig
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Oliver Köhler
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Arndt Begemann
Of Counsel
Essen
Sebastian Wuschka LL.M. (Geneva MIDS)
Of Counsel
Hamburg
Philipp Kropatscheck Nguyen, LL.M.
Of Counsel
Singapore
Mee Foo Moh
Of Counsel
Singapore
Dr Andreas Meyer-Landrut
Of Counsel
Dusseldorf
Hans-Christian Ackermann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Stephan Bausch, D.U.
Partner
Cologne
Jutta Wittler
Partner
Cologne
Dr Carsten E. Beisheim
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Jürgen Bremer
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Angelo Vallone
Partner
Dusseldorf
Philipp Dietz, LL.M. (Edinburgh)
Partner
Cologne
Dr Gernot-Rüdiger Engel
Partner
Hamburg
Volker Steimle
Partner
Cologne
Dr Holger Stappert
Partner
Dusseldorf
Nicole Fröhlich
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Stefan Galla
Partner
Essen
Prof Dr Florian Schulz M.B.A. (Nimbas)
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Guido Jansen
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Helmut Janssen, LL.M. (King's College London)
Partner
Brussels, Dusseldorf
Dr Barbara Schmidt
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Rolf Kobabe
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Stefan Kobes
Partner
Berlin
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Christiane Kühn, LL.M. (Hong Kong)
Partner
Munich
Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover
Dr Sabrina Desens
Partner
Leipzig
Tim Rauschning
Partner
Hamburg
Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Martin Fleckenstein
Partner
Berlin
Daniel Naumann
Partner
Leipzig
Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin
Katharina Klenk-Wernitzki, Dipl. Reg.-Wiss
Partner
Berlin, Cologne
Dr Christian Horn, LL.M. (Tulane)
Partner
Berlin
Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Borbála Dux-Wenzel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Philipp Kersting
Partner
Jakarta
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Gerd Stuhlmacher
Partner
Munich
Dr Steffen Gaber, LL.M. (Sydney)
Partner
Stuttgart
Dr Stephan Rippert LL.M.
Partner
Munich
Raphaël Schindler
Partner
Luxembourg
Dr Björn Simon
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr jur Stephan Götze
Partner
Berlin
Dr Konrad Adenauer
Partner
Cologne
Jette Gustafsson, LL.M. (Boston)
Partner
Hamburg
Daniel Latta
Partner
Berlin
Dr Johannes Teichmann
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
Prof. Dr Christian Burholt, LL.M.
Partner
Berlin
Marx Dauth, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Mathieu Laurent
Partner
Luxembourg
Dr Anika Wendelstein
Partner
Stuttgart
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Georg Scherpf
Partner
Hamburg
Lars Bollensen
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Markus Sengpiel
Managing Partner
Cologne
Elisabeth Lepique
Managing Partner
Cologne