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Lisa Reiser

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Lisa Reiser is a counsel in Baker McKenzie’s Frankfurt office with over 10 years of experience in dispute resolution through arbitration, commercial litigation, adjudication and mediation. Lisa regularly advises clients in construction matters, such as disputes over offshore wind farm projects, as well as in post-M&A disputes.

In brief After nearly 10 years of litigation, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm in Germany decided against Saúl Luciano Lliuya, the Peruvian farmer who – supported by the NGO Germanwatch – had sued the German energy company RWE AG for injunctive relief and damages. Allegedly, RWE’s carbon dioxide emissions had contributed to the global climate change and thereby contributed to the glacier melt in the Andes mountains where Lliuya’s property is located. The glacier…