Dr. Tristan Wegner has been working as a lawyer in international trade and transport law as well as agricultural trade issues since 2013.

He is a specialist lawyer for transport and forwarding law. He has been the owner of the law firm since 2019. He has acquired in-depth knowledge in these areas at the shipping senate of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg and a chamber for commercial matters. Subsequently, he worked during his legal clerkship for a leading international law firm in customs and foreign trade law and customs investigation.

After the Second State Examination, he gained valuable practical experience in the field of maritime business in a large traditional German shipping company. Dr. Wegner completed his doctorate in London and Hamburg on the interfaces between sales and transport law. In particular, he dealt with the relations to the trade with agricultural commodities (GAFTA, FOSFA and Uniform Conditions in the German Grain Trade).

Dr. Wegner regularly publishes articles on international trade and is a member of the Hamburg Insurance Association, the German Initiative of Young Arbitrators (DIS40) and the European Forum for Foreign Trade, Excise and Customs.

He has also been a lecturer and associate lecturer at the University of Hamburg for many years.

Memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transportrecht (DGTR)
  • Deutscher Verein für Internationales Seerecht (DVIS)
  • Deutsche Initiative junger Schiedsrechtler (DIS40)
  • Versicherungswissenschaftlicher Verein Hamburg
  • German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA)