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