

New risks, new opportunities
As the insurance landscape continues to shift, both primary insurers and reinsurers face a multitude of challenges. Theirs is a world in constant flux: New business models, digital trends, demographic change, changing risks across the entire portfolio and changing regulatory and legal requirements create a complex and confusing backdrop for making business decisions.
Our experts, familiar with the complexity of the insurance industry, develop innovative, sustainable and, above all, legally compliant solutions enabling us to keep pace with market developments. Our integrated approach in interdisciplinary teams assists clients, identifying potential and opportunities in a strictly regulated market – we provide this support at all stages of the value chain.
We advise both domestic and international insurance and reinsurance companies, insured persons – in particular companies and their executives – as well as insurance brokers.
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Our expertise at a glance
- Optimising group structures, e.g. assistance for conversion and reorganisation measures
- Launching holding companies and/or divisional or service companies
- Organising corporate governance and safeguarding members' rights
- Advice for management boards, supervisory boards and shareholders
- Coordinating with BaFin and the financial authorities
- Advice on acquisitions, sales, restructuring measures and joint ventures in the insurance industry
- Advice on mergers of companies and groups of companies
- Antitrust advice and notification of mergers as well as horizontal and vertical co-operations
- Transfer of insurance and reinsurance portfolios
- Structuring of private equity transactions and related financings
- Assistance with international acquisitions and disposals
- Organisation of W&I insurance for corporate transactions
- Tax structuring of conversions and corporate transactions
- Assistance with tax audits and financial court proceedings
- Special balance sheet and reorganisation tax issues in the insurance industry
- Tax due diligence for insurance companies
- Tax valuation issues
- Tax structuring of investments
- Real estate transfer tax relating to fund investments
- Insurance tax
- Advice on (insurance) supervisory law issues and regulatory requirements
- Assistance for supervisory proceedings
- Examining the licensing requirement for business models and coordination with authorities
- Advice on the establishment and authorisation of new market participants (EU/non-EU), assistance with BaFin authorisation procedures, support for foreign insurers establishing branches in Germany
- Advice on supervisory law requirements for remuneration systems
- Support for freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for EU/EEA insurers
- Advice on portfolio transfers and outsourcing of functions
- Developing and implementing compliance management systems
- Preparing compliance guidelines and internal information and reporting systems
- Reviewing and monitoring of compliance systems at individual and group level
- Performing risk analyses and preparing annual compliance reports
- Advice and inquiries for compliance incidents
- Assistance with internal investigations
- Claims for damages against board members and coverage by D&O insurance
- Contact with authorities and public prosecutors
- Liability and cover advice for national and international claims
- Prosecution and defence of liability claims against and by managing directors, board members and supervisory board members (cyber, D&O, E&O, PI insurance)
- Representation in coverage disputes and recourse proceedings before (arbitration) courts
- Comprehensive support with coverage and liability issues as well as claims settlement, in close cooperation with experts in corporate, banking, commercial and distribution law
- Advice on EU legislation, in particular Solvency II and IDD
- Assistance with international acquisitions and disposals
- Assistance with market entry in Germany
- Advice on individual and collective labour and employment law, especially for the insurance industry
- Negotiations with works councils, collective bargaining issues and labour and employment law assistance with (internal) restructurings
- Labour and employment law consequences of compliance infringements