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How to Structure a €1bn Pan-European Office Portfolio Sales Transaction for Four German Open-Ended Real-Estate Funds – The Union Investment ‘Aqua Portfolio’ Transaction
In 2015, French investor Amundi Immobilier bought the €1bn Aqua Portfolio from Union Investment Real Estate GmbH, Hamburg (“Union Investment”) in what was shaping up to be one of the...Read more
Darius Soglowek
Legal Counsel Real Estate (Syndikusanwalt), Union Investment, Germany
Marc Lauterfeld
General Counsel Real Estate, Union Investment, Germany
Roman Reher
Legal Counsel, Head of Real Estate Transactions, Union Investment, Germany
Intellectual Property Work in Key Figures
Intellectual property (IP) has always been, and will increasingly be, a critical success factor for a wide range of industries. Considerable efforts go into creating and safeguarding IP and this...Read more
Maik Ebersoll
Head of Legal Operations, Linde AG, Germany
Andreas Bong
Managing Partner, Otto Henning, Germany
Smart Risk Assessment for Compliance Risk
Successful management of compliance risk lies at the heart of the compliance mission statement. Practical efforts to develop and expand upon existing methodologies are ongoing, with the goal of identifying...Read more
Maik Ebersoll
Head of Legal Operations, Linde AG, Germany
Florian Stork
Associate Senior Counsel – Compliance EMEA, The Linde Group, Germany
Letter on the European Commission's Legislative Package on Interchange Fees in Credit Card payments [COM(2013) 550-2013/0265 (COD)]
In July 2013 the European Commission published its Legislative Package with proposals on a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD II) and on a Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment...Read more
Roland Paschek
Head of Legal, Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten GmbH, Germany
Compliance Risk Assessment at Siemens
What has dental care to do with risk management?
Everybody knows that preventive measures like brushing your teeth twice a day, using dental floss daily and going to a dentist...Read more
Jan Hansen
Head of Compliance Strategy & Risk , Siemens AG, Germany
Innovation Starts with Legal: How In House Lawyers can serve a Company beyond a Traditional Legal Role
Have you ever had a project that involved business issues, challenged the status quo and pushed your legal skills to the limit? You are not alone. In fact, there are...Read more
Thomas Konowalczyk
VP Associate GC, CA Technologies, Germany
The Siemens Compliance System: 'Prevent - Detect - Respond and Continuous Improvement'
The current Siemens Compliance System was developed in 2007 and 2008, initially in response to criminal investigations undertaken by the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Munich, the US Securities...Read more
Klaus Moosmayer
Chief Compliance Officer, Siemens, Germany
Josef Winter
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), Siemens, Germany
The Future of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation - or How Special is the Insurance Sector?
Subject to certain conditions, the current Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (BER) exempts important forms of cooperation in the insurance industry from the application of the prohibition of anti-competitive practices...Read more
Jeannine Bartmann
Head of Competition, IP and IT-Law, Allianz SE, Germany
Enlightening The Jungle: The German Rules on Advertising Pharmaceuticals
The legal rules applying to advertising medicines in Germany resemble a jungle. While a Medical Products Advertising Act (hereafter the Act) has been put in place, which concentrates on rules...Read more
Thorsten Witt
Corporate Counsel, Celesio, Germany
Competition Law and the European Financial Services Sector: An Overview of Recent Developments
The European Commission has recently been channelling more resources to the enforcement of competition in the financial sector in an effort to combat the financial industry's continuing fragmentation. Contrary to...Read more
Phoebus Athanassiou
Principal Legal Counsel, European Central Bank, Germany