Dr. Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn

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.

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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

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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

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Publications

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

Expertise

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

Experience

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.
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.
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.

ING on its cooperation with AXA	ING on all legal issues in the contractual design of its cooperation with AXA.
AXA on the run off of its reinsurance portfolio	AXA on providing comprehensive advice on the run off of its reinsurance portfolio.

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Awards

JUVE Handbook 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022	Frequently recommended for Corporate Advice to Insurers and Insurance Contracts: Insurance Advice and Ligitation
JUVE Handbook 2021/2022	"Experienced D&O consultant", competitor
JUVE Handbook 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022	Frequently recommended for business-related advice to insurers
The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021	Leading individual: Insurance law
Who's Who Legal (WWL) 2020, 2021	Thought Leader – Germany – Insurance & Reinsurance
Who's Who Legal (WWL) 2021	Global and National Leader – Insurance & Reinsurance
Chambers Europe 2021	Leading individual - Insurance - Germany: (…) Her client base includes many well-known insurance companies, as well as financial institutions and corporate policyholders.
JUVE Handbook 2020/2021	"Cooperation is going well", competitor
WirtschaftsWoche 2020	Taylor Wessing was named "TOP Law Firm 2020" in the current WirtschaftsWoche listing in the legal field "Insurance Law" and Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn was recommended as "TOP Lawyer 2020
Chambers Europe 2020	Leading individual - Insurance - Germany: Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn caters to a client base of well-known insurance companies and financial institutions. Clients appreciate her for being "experienced and well connected."
Chambers Europe 2020	Leading individual - Insurance: Transactional - Germany