The time has finally come: the Act to Strengthen Germany as a Location for Justice of 7 October 2024, which came into force on 1 April 2025 (link to the Act), will significantly expand your options as an entrepreneur in the area of commercial dispute resolution. You can now benefit quickly and directly from the high level of dispute resolution and dispute settlement expertise of our judges with experience in civil and commercial law.

Following its commercial tradition, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen would like to offer companies the opportunity to rely on special expertise in case law, especially in those areas that are particularly represented in the Bremen economy in production and in the service sector (logistics, aerospace, hydrogen and civil aviation technology) (link to the regulation).

In conflicts that are of particular importance to the companies involved due to the high value in dispute, you can now file a lawsuit directly with the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen in order to obtain a decision on the legal issues from our highest court, the Federal Court of Justice, quickly if an amicable settlement cannot be reached. Such decisions will not only benefit you in individual cases, but will also support your and other companies and their lawyers in their future legal planning. The legal disputes can be conducted in English at your request and you benefit from modern procedural regulations in which you are quickly involved in the design and implementation of the procedure (link to the procedure). The often cumbersome recognition of arbitration decisions is therefore no longer necessary.

On this homepage of the Commercial Court, you can find information about the proceedings and about the composition of the court. Of course, the legal basis for this special procedure is also available here.

I would be delighted if this service were to attract the interest of companies in Bremen and beyond, so that together we can achieve legal certainty in commercial law issues with high professional quality and speedy procedures and thus contribute to strengthening the rule of law.

Ann-Marie Wolff

President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen