Flick Gocke Schaumburg advises Swiss Life on transfer of life insurance business to German SE

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has advised the Swiss Life Group on the transfer of its German life insurance business to a German SE. To date, this business has been managed by a German branch of Swiss Life AG.

Advisors to the Swiss Life Group: Flick Gocke Schaumburg

Prof. Ingo Stangl, Dr. Claus Ritzer, Dr. Frieder B. Mörwald; associates: Andreas Augenstein, Dr. Benjamin Graßl, Maximilian Penzkofer, Annette Schmidt (all tax)

The advisory services encompassed the tax implications in Germany of the conversion.

Riedweg & Partner AG advised Swiss Life on the tax aspects in Switzerland.

The Swiss Life Group is a leading provider of pension and financial solutions in Europe. It operates in Switzerland, Germany, and France, and has competence centers in Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Singapore. With a workforce of around 10,000 employees and a distributed network of 17,000 advisors, the group generates operating profit of around EUR 1.5 billion (adjusted figure for 2023). <<<