Tim Robben

Tim advises national and international clients in complex arbitration and litigation proceedings.

He has extensive experience in disputes in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors, with a particular focus on large-scale, complex software and transformation projects, IT outsourcing, and data centers.

• Advised and successfully represented an international IT company in a dispute with a healthcare-sector customer regarding the extension of software licences. The dispute focused on whether competition law required the IT company to extend the licences after the customer sought such relief in preliminary injunction proceedings.
• Represented and advised an international IT company in a dispute arising from a failed ERP software project in the manufacturing sector. The dispute centred on the interpretation of the IT outsourcing company’s scope of work.
• Currently represents and advises an international IT company in a dispute arising from claims related to a large-scale IT transformation project in the telecommunications sector.
• Currently represents and advises an international IT company in a dispute concerning claims arising from an FSM software project in the telecommunications sector.
• Currently represents and advises an international IT company in a dispute arising from a failed software project in the public administration sector. The dispute centres on the interpretation of the scope of work and an extensive evidentiary hearing regarding the condition of the software.
• Currently represents and advises an international mobility company on various aspects of its IT outsourcing setup, particularly its data centre activities.
• Successfully represented and advised an international facility management company in a dispute with a software company arising from a failed software project in the service sector. The principal terminated the development project after repeated unsuccessful attempts by the contractor to complete the functional design documents and significant delays.
• Defended a software company against claims brought by an outsourcing services provider.
• Regularly represents international IT companies in claim management matters.
• Advised investors in a dispute with a crypto company following an ICO.
• Advised a pharmaceutical company in a dispute with the manufacturer of a defective machine used to produce reagents.
• Advised a construction and manufacturing company in a dispute concerning an agricultural construction project.
• Represents and advises a chemical company in a complex construction dispute.

• DIS 40 - German initiative of young arbitration practitioners
• OMCA e.V. - Osnabrucker Moot Court Assocation