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The legal team of German financials group Aurelius has doubled in size over the last three years to its current strength of 12 individuals, and is now a consistently strong performer in the in-house legal scene on the back of its successful support of the company’s M&A, capital market and corporate affairs. General counsel Frank Forster lists the team’s major successes, highlighting the volume and variety of work the team has been successful in achieving recently. ‘We have undertaken a double-digit number of M&A transactions’, he explains, ’these being inter alia: the sale of Secop Group, Getronics Group and Studienkreis; the acquisition of Granuvit, Bertram Books, Abelan, Ideal Shopping Direct, Silvan, Privilège Marine and Wex Photography; and the launch of Aurelius Finance Company, a UK based growth and turnaround financing company’. New developments in the market which the team had to handle were in particular the ‘market abuse regulation, general data protection regulation, the ongoing trend in Germany towards use of warranty and indemnity insurances in transactions, the upcoming exit of the UK from the European Union providing unknowns increasingly making it difficult to agree on UK law and courts as law of choice or jurisdiction for international transactions’.