David van Koppen

I am an associate in our Düsseldorf office and I advise clients on a wide range of commercial law and dispute matters.

My practice focuses on the automotive industry and supply chains in general. I support international and domestic clients in complex commercial law matters, in particular, commercial contracts and commercial dispute resolution.

In the past, I have advised clients on all types of domestic and international supply chain issues, for example, warranty and product liability cases, price negotiations, delivery stops, termination of supply contracts and complex contract drafting.

In particular, I have profound knowledge in drafting complex supply agreements in the automotive industry including the associated contractual documents, from both the buyer's and seller's perspective. In addition, I regularly provide long-term advice to our clients in large litigation proceedings concerning supply chain disputes in the automotive industry.

I am a member of our Commercial Practice Group and our International Automotive Sector Group. Besides being a lawyer in our firm, I am currently working on my Ph.D. on a certain type of contract in the German automotive industry at the University of Basel.

• Advising a tier-1 automotive supplier in a warranty case against a German OEM (> 300m EUR litigation).
• Advising a tier-1 automotive supplier in a warranty case against a German OEM (> 50m EUR litigation).
• Advising a tier-2 automotive supplier in defending against an interim relief based on a delivery stop to enforce compensation for a shortfall in call-offs (> 200m EUR litigation).
• Advising a tier-1 automotive supplier in preparing and implementing a delivery stop to obtain compensation for cost increases caused by the customer.
• Setting up a new and complex contract structure for a tier-1 supplier vis-à-vis OEMs and tier-2 suppliers.
• Advising a tier-1 supplier on the set-up and adaption of its international standard terms of purchase in over 15 jurisdictions.
• Drafting standard terms of purchase for production material and equipment for a leading Chinese manufacturer of EV batteries.
• Ongoing day-to-day legal advice to several domestic and international suppliers on a wide range of commercial law matters.