Corporate Insurance

Corporate Insurance

Our lawyers advise on all questions of corporate insurance law, whether relating to supervisory, corporate or tax law, industry-specific questions of antitrust, labour or data protection law, M&A transactions or reinsurance issues.

For many years, numerous leading national and international insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance intermediaries and insurance-related service providers as well as their corporate bodies have placed their trust in us. Working in close collaboration with you, we also develop customised and business-oriented solutions.

Our range of advice in the insurance sector includes:

  • National and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions (e.g. mergers, demergers, portfolio transfers)
  • IT and data protection: outsourcing, use of apps, platforms and cloud services, big data, artificial intelligence, DORA, GDPR
  • Insurance supervisory compliance, e.g. for corporate governance, outsourcing of functions, company contracts, remuneration issues, investment strategies or capitalisation
  • InsurTechs and venture capital investments
  • Equity and financial products
  • Structuring of distribution systems and agreements, trade supervision (authorisation and registration, ongoing supervision), IDD
  • Reinsurance and retrocession contracts
  • Industry-specific competition/antitrust law
  • Insurance tax compliance and proceedings
  • Disputes, in particular regarding major claims and arbitration proceedings in the reinsurance sector
  • Transactional risk insurance (W&I) on the part of both insurers and transaction parties
  • Development of insurance products
Anna-Catharina von Girsewald

Anna-Catharina von Girsewald

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Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 407
M +49 173 3138 081

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InsuranceCorporate Insurance23.08.2022 Newsletter

Frankfurt Higher Regional Court: insurance brokers may be obliged to draw attention to exclusions of cover

An insurance broker may in exceptional cases be obliged to draw an insured party’s attention to certain exclusions of cover. This was confirmed by the Higher Regional Court [Oberlandesgericht - OLG] of Frankfurt.

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Düsseldorf Regional Court on unfair e-mail advertising of broker services

The Düsseldorf Regional Court has ruled that, under certain circumstances, an insurance broker must accept being attributed with the unfair conduct of an advertising agency commissioned by him (judgement of 16 June 2021, 12 O 10/21).

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Insurance brokerage: lack of uninterrupted liability insurance may result in loss of broker's licence

The Administrative Court [Verwaltungsgericht, VG] of Magdeburg has ruled that the subsequent conclusion of a professional liability insurance in order to obtain uninterrupted insurance coverage does not meet the requirements of Sec. 34d (5) sentence 1 No. 3 German Industrial Code [Gewerbeordnung, GewO] (judgement of 18 January 2022, 3 A 96/21 MD).

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