‘Outstanding expertise in insurance supervisory law, very good knowledge of the market and excellent networking in the industry (also with the supervisory authority BaFin).’

‘Dr. Gunne Baehr and Dr. Volker Lemmer are both excellent in insurance supervisory law.’

‘The team around Dr. Christian Schneider is technically well versed (also with regard to liability law topics), easily accessible, thinks outside the box and is always extremely friendly. The team is an established point of contact for all of our company’s insurance matters, but especially for critical issues.’

‘Dr. Christian Schneider: Great contact person with brilliant know-how; Idea giver; creative, but always a balanced perspective for everyone involved.’

‘Extremely well-founded legal advice on insurance and insurance supervisory law, combined with highly qualified advice on other related legal issues (e.g. company pension law).’

‘Very customer-oriented and flexible. Also available at short notice and always able to give competent advice, even in complex matters.’

‘Extensive knowledge of various jurisdictions, valuable in cross-border consulting.’

‘Gunne Bähr actually knows everything about insurance law.’

‘Dr. Christoph Küppers: Always available; broad knowledge base; outstanding expert; good partner in risk assessment.’

‘The advisory team at Hogan Lovells Germany provides fast and well-founded advice in all legal disciplines. Questions are answered quickly. Partners can be contacted at any time. The solution-oriented advice is always in the foreground.’

‘Dr. Christoph Küppers is a recognized expert in insurance regulatory issues. With his professional and pragmatic consulting approach, he made a significant contribution to our company’s successful start-up.’

‘The team is excellently positioned to advise on insurance regulatory issues. The combination of insurance law, supervisory law and tax law is quite unique in German consulting practice.’

‘Dr. Küppers is a luminary in the combination of insurance law, supervisory law and tax law, which he combines in his person.’

‘Hogan Lovells offers comprehensive legal and tax advice that works very practically on innovative solutions, particularly in life reinsurance law. Good networking with regulators, primary insurers (=our customers) and also other market participants.’

‘Dr. Christoph Küppers is very pragmatic, has a super quick comprehension and his explanations can easily be implemented in reinsurance, even internally without translation work for the legal department. No useless theoretical explanations, easy to deal with and very well networked. Other law firms are much more cumbersome here. We particularly value his know-how in tax law and his constant willingness to deal with new ideas.’

‘Fully competent, trustworthy and stringent all-round support from the beginning of the negotiation to the end with a great deal of persuasiveness and assertiveness towards the negotiating partner, ie planning, drafting contract texts, conducting negotiations, coordination, advice and assessment from a single source. The lawyers are always available and work extremely quickly.’

‘Dr. Heitzer is very competent and experienced and convinces with his deep instructive expertise, through which he is able to take the negotiating partner with him and convince him.’

‘The competence of the law firm is its broad and qualitatively very good positioning and advice in a wide spectrum.’

‘The Taylor Wessing Insurance team is characterized by a high degree of specialization in the areas of insurance regulatory law, reinsurance and advice on complex cross-border insurance claims.’

‘Miss Dr. Kammerer-Galahn is exceptionally specialized in reinsurance law – our original mandate. She always works in a highly professional, technically competent manner and also handles cross-border issues (including insurance law) with routine. This also applies to their employees.’

‘Fully competent, trusting and stringent support from the beginning of the negotiation to the end.’

‘Mrs. Kammerer-Galahn is very competent and committed and convinces with her instructive expertise and her always trustworthy, binding conduct of negotiations, which means that she is able to take the negotiating partner with her.’

‘Clifford Chance Germany can combine real know-how in the areas of re/insurance and M&A – that’s actually a very rare skill.’

‘High professional competence and good interdisciplinary cooperation with the individual departments.’

‘High reliability and quick response to questions.’

‘NRF’s insurance team is very familiar with the requirements of the verification process required to broker W&I insurance and the type of advice required. This ensures a very streamlined process and at the same time gives us the comfort of being able to rely on the advice received. Another advantage is that NRF can draw on support and knowledge from the global network, which is very advantageous in cross-border transactions.’

‘From the current NRF team, we normally work together with Marco Niehaus, who is our most important reference partner. Marco has been advising on M&A insurance for many years and is very familiar with the processes, requirements and services of insurers. This allows for easy processing and is a great advantage for us to be able to act effectively in this area.’

‘Fast results/representations that can be used in practice.’

‘Corinna Baltzer: Very reactive and reliable, good understanding of economic relationships.’