Peter Bert is admitted both in Germany as lawyer and as solicitor in England and Wales. He read law at University College Cardiff (as an ERASMUS exchange student in 1987/88) and at Passau University (first state exam, 1991) as well as economics at Konstanz University (post-graduate degree in international economics, 1992). In 1993, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He has been in private practice in Frankfurt since 1996, and has been a Partner of Taylor Wessing since 2003. Peter acts for clients in commercial and corporate disputes, often with a cross-border element, be it in arbitration, litigation or mediation. His most exotic court appearance took him to Brunei. In 1999, he was accredited as a mediator by CEDR, London, and more recently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). By now, he has sufficient grey hair to be occasionally appointed as an arbitrator.