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Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn
Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

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Gunbritt is a specialist lawyer for insurance law. She heads up the Insurance Practice Group for Germany and coordinates the international Financial Services & Institutions Group at Taylor Wessing. She advises insurance and reinsurance companies on complex international transactions, contract drafting and regulatory issues - her versatile consulting practice illustrates her expertise in insurance law.

With her many years of experience, Gunbritt advises corporations on their transformation to digital and global players and negotiates with the responsible insurance supervisory authority BaFin. She represents insurers and reinsurers in arbitration proceedings as well as in D&O and reinsurance disputes. Gunbritt is also a consultant at the insurance law institutes of the Universities of Düsseldorf and Münster.

Gunbritt is Local Manager of Taylor Wessing's Düsseldorf office.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Corporate crime & compliance
Data & cyber
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
Artificial intelligence
Insurance & reinsurance disputes
Joint ventures
Cyber security & data breaches
Warranty & indemnity insurance

Sectors

Financial institutions & insurance
Life sciences & healthcare
Technology, media & communications
Automotive & mobility
Insurance
Medical devices
Pharmaceuticals
Fintech
Connectivity autonomous driving & data services
E-mobility/new drive technologies
Machine learning

CV

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2008 Counsel, Linklaters LLP, Düsseldorf
2005 – 2007 Associate, Linklaters LLP, Cologne
2001 – 2005 Associate, Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler Köln
1997 – 2001 In–house lawyer, Ruhrgas AG Essen
1997 Admitted as a lawyer, Cologne
1997 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
1995 Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Klaus Stern
1993 First state examination, Cologne
1987 Degree studies in law, Universities of Cologne and Geneva, Switzerland

Career

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2008 Counsel, Linklaters LLP, Düsseldorf
2005 – 2007 Associate, Linklaters LLP, Cologne
2001 – 2005 Associate, Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler Köln
1997 – 2001 In–house lawyer, Ruhrgas AG Essen

Education

1997 Admitted as a lawyer, Cologne
1997 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
1995 Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Klaus Stern
1993 First state examination, Cologne
1987 Degree studies in law, Universities of Cologne and Geneva, Switzerland

Publications

Verwendung von Big Data und AI vertraglich gut regeln, in VersicherungsJournal Extrablatt, 03/22

Gastbeitrag - Digitale Risiken in VU: die Bafin schaut hin, Versicherungswirtschaft heute, November 2019

Video-Interview - Taylor Wessing erklärt: VAIT - Rechtsrahmen für digitale Lösungen in der Cloud, November 2019

Vertrieb durch Onlinebank: ING setzt mit Taylor Wessing Kooperation mit Axa um. JUVE Rechtsmarkt Nr. 11 22. Jahrgang November 2019. Online einsehbar.

IT von Versicherungsunternehmen: BaFin konkretisiert Anforderungen, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #11, Juli/2018

Kommentatorin im VVG-Kommentar Looschelders Pohlmann

Kommentatorin im UmwG-Kommentar Böttcher Habighorst

Memberships & Associations

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versicherungsrecht des Deutschen Anwaltvereins
Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft e.V.

Additional languages

English French

Awards

Lexology Index

Featured

One of the world's leading practitioners in the Lexology Index Insurance 2025 report

Chambers Germany 2025

Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn is well placed to advise on underwriting guidelines, insurance contracts and portfolio run-offs, with further expertise in supervisory and distribution law. She also handles insurance disputes in relation to D&O claims, and assists with the setting up of joint ventures and mergers between prominent insurance companies. She also offers expertise in restructuring and financing, including for insurtechs.

Chambers Germany 2025

Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn is an outstanding expert in this area., Insurance client

Chambers Germany 2025

We always benefit in particular from Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn's extensive experience., Insurance client

The collaboration with Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn is worth highlighting. High level of confidence in the service and very good response time to inquiries.

Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn is a proven expert and supported us very well. She negotiated for us in a friendly but firm manner and put herself in her client's shoes. On site and in teams, both forms of negotiation were well prepared, well followed up and simply perfect.

Recommended lawyer for insurance law

Recommended lawyer for insurance litigation

“visible on in-house projects”, competitor

Frequently recommended for insurance law

Recommended Lawyer: Germany - Insurance & Reinsurance

Thought Leader: Germany - Insurance & Reinsurance

Leading individual: Insurance Law

Recommended lawyer for insurance - litigation

Recommended lawyer for insurance - Advice to insurers

Ranked lawyer for Insurance: Transactional

Ranked lawyer for Insurance

"Gunbritt provides sound and very useful guidance on insurance regulations to navigate us through any challenges."

"Gunbritt is a strong and experienced lawyer who has good reinsurance insights."

Frequently recommended: Insurance law - Business-related advice

Frequently recommended: Insurance law - Product advice

Experience

Taylor Wessing advises ERGO Group on ESG Regulation

Advising ERGO Group AG on ESG regulation in relation to the distribution of insurances and investments in funds.

Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn
Dr. Verena Ritter-Döring

Purchase of an under construction office complex near Berlin

Savills Investment Management (Savills IM) on the purchase of the "NUBIS" office complex in the Adlershof Science and Technology Park in Berlin, some of which is still under construction. The international real estate investment firm Savills IM has acquired the properties for its Savills IM European Commercial Fund (ECF). The transaction is part of an asset deal with Project Immobilien Gewerbe AG. The ensemble consists of three independent multi-tenant buildings with modern and flexible office space. A total of around 17,200 square metres of lettable space are spread across five to six floors. Each house has its own underground car park with a total of 86 parking spaces. The first building has already been completed and occupied by the tenants. The other two properties will be transferred to the Fund's portfolio when it is successively completed in the first half of 2019. In total, long-term leases have already been signed for more than 90 percent of the space. The main tenants are VBU Verkehrsbau Union Berlin GmbH (Eurovia) and TECHEM Energy Services GmbH.

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Dr. Anja Fenge, LL.M.
Dr. Adrian Birnbach, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Dr. Daniel Graske
Dieter Lang, LL.M.Eur.
Dr. Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Chicago)
Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

New IDD requirements for insurers

HUK-Coburg Haftpflicht-Unterstützungs-Kasse Kraftfahrender Beamter Deutschlands a. G. in Coburg on the implementation of the new IDD requirements under insurance distribution regulatory law.

Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

ING on its cooperation with AXA

ING on all legal issues in the contractual design of its cooperation with AXA.

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Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn
Pierre-Olivier Leblanc
Andrei Babiy
Martin Eckel, LL.M.

AXA on the run off of its reinsurance portfolio

AXA on providing comprehensive advice on the run off of its reinsurance portfolio.

Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

Member of Chubb Europe's Cyber Incident Response Team

CHUBB European Group Limited, Directorate for Germany as member of its Cyber Incident Response Team. Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company.

Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn
Detlef Klett
Mareike Christine Gehrmann
Dr. Axel Frhr. von dem Bussche, LL.M. (L.S.E.), CIPP/E

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