Spangenberg counsel Marie Grüger in Hamburg was appointed as a DIS40 Co-Chair, the under-40 group of the German Arbitration Institute. She was appointed along with Frankfurt-based Clifford Chance senior associate Polina Lehmann and of counsel Sebastian Wuschka at Luther in Hamburg at the DIS40 autumn conference in Berlin on 11 September 2024. The three new co-chairs join last year’s appointees: Nadja Harraschain, a Frankfurt-based associate at Allen & Overy; Christian Steger, counsel at RSM Ebner Stolz in Hamburg; and Christoph Gramlich, in-house counsel at VINCI Energies Germany. Grüger joined Hamburg boutique Spangenberg in 2021, having begun her career at White & Case. Her focus is on international commercial arbitration.