is a practicing maritime lawyer with the lawfirm Ahlers & Vogel Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB in Hamburg/Germany. He was admitted to the bar in 1997.

He is working principally for Owners, Ship Managers and Marine Insurances, is experienced in sale and purchase transactions, charterparty and bills of lading disputes either in the German commercial courts or in arbitration in Hamburg and London. He has further been involved in many casualty investigations, such as MSC FLAMINIA, HANJIN PENNSYLVANIA, CCNI ARAUCO, MSC ZOE.

Jan-Erik is a member of the German Association for Transport Law, the German/Singapore Legal Association and of the Maritime and Transport Law Committee of IBA. As member of the board of the German Maritime Law Association he is a regular delegate to various CMI conferences and events.

Jan-Erik is a Titulary Member of CMI. He attended his first CMI-Conference in Singapore in 2001 and is a member of the CMI IWG on Judicial Sale of Ships where he has been involved in drafting of the “Beijing Convention”. As such he has given presentations about the Judicial Sale of Ships at the CMI Beijing Conference in 2012 and at the CMI Malta Colloquium in 2018. As legal expert to the Ministry of Law of the Federal Republic of Germany he has been a member of the German delegation at the UNCITRAL working group VI and is now involved with the ratification of the “Beijing Convention” with the CMI.

Jan-Erik is the author of various publication and has written the commentary about Maritime Law in Germany in the Munich Commercial Law Commentary (“Münchener Kommentar zum HGB”).