Renate Dendorfer-Ditges

Renate Dendorfer-Ditges Dr. jur., LL.M. (Illinois/USA), MBA (Maastricht/Netherlands) works as a partner of DITGES Partnerschaft mbB in Bonn and Munich/Germany. She is admitted to the German bar as well as to the bar of New York / U.S. Federal Courts. Prior to that, she worked as a partner at the medium-sized law firm Heussen in Munich and as in-house counsel at various companies. She completed her doctoral dissertation on the topic of active telemarketing and unfair competition law in a comparative legal analysis of Germany and the United States, and it was awarded the grade of magna cum laude. She is a qualified specialist for labor law, trade law as well as for international commercial law with additional specialization in patent matters. She has experience as well in litigation as in mediation and arbitration. Dr. Dendorfer-Ditges is a certified mediator according to German law. She has more than 20 years of experience as commercial mediator as well as an arbitrator for national and international cases. Approximately, she served as a mediator and arbitrator in more than 70 proceedings. She has been selected as an ADR/mediation expert by Who's Who Legal since 2012 continuously. Additionally, she is ranked in “Best Lawyers” for international arbitration since 2014. Dr. Dendorfer-Ditges is a member of the Mediation Unit of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes and she serves as the Ombudsperson for CARE Deutschland e.V. on a volunteer basis. Since about 20 years, Dr. Dendorfer-Ditges teaches mediation and arbitration in Germany, the Ukraine (currently online) and in former times in Hungary, the Netherlands and in the U.S. To this end, she has been collaborating with the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce for many years. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Ravensburg Campus, and there a professor emerita of business law and mediation. She is also an honorary professor at the EBS University of Business and Law in Wiesbaden with the specialization in ADR. In 2005, she was awarded the State Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching in Baden-Württemberg. Dr. Dendorfer-Ditges declined an appointment at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences for personal reasons. She is member of Rotary International and served as Governor in 2020/2021 with the responsibility for 55 Rotary Clubs in her district as well as currently as the representative for her district in the Rotary International Council of Legislation.