Legal and
tax advice
on investment law, property transactions
and mergers and acquisitions
Our firm
The law firm Kind & Drews advises entrepreneurs, fund managers, family offices,
foundations and high net-worth individuals regarding bank and investment law, individual and
transaction-related tax law, property transactions and mergers & acquisitions.
The focus of our advice is on achieving the economic aims of our clients
- this is the key context to all our legal and tax-related considerations and recommendations.
Our focus
Kind & Drews are specialized in the areas of investment
and real estate law and transaction-related legal and tax advice.
We support our clients comprehensively in:
- legal and tax structuring of M&A transactions and real estate investments;
- dispute resolution both in and out of court in connection with investments and property transactions;
- legal and tax evaluation of investment schemes; and
- restructuring of investments.
Experience is the basis of any successful advice. The partners of the firm have advised entrepreneurs, fund managers, family offices, foundations and high net-worth individuals over the course of many years, and are familiar with market conditions and practices through lengthy experience working for one of the largest and most renowned international law firms.
Dr. Sebastian Kind
Dr Sebastian Kind was born in 1972 and, following a banking apprenticeship, completed his legal studies at Trier University, where he also obtained his doctorate in the law of derivative instruments. This was followed by a legal traineeship at the Düsseldorf district higher regional court (OLG), including a period working in the legal department of a major German bank in New York.
From 2003 to 2012, Dr Kind worked in the banking and finance law practice group of international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, specializing in the areas of funds structuring and project financing, and of financial law regulation and private capital market law.
During this time, Dr Kind also spent six months working for a bank in London.
PUBLICATIONS
Kommentierung Abschnitt 8, Finanztermingeschäfte, in Just/Voß/Ritz/Becker, WpHG, im Erscheinen begriffen
Bearbeitung Prospekthaftung, Finanzaufsichtsrecht, Private-Equity-Fonds, Infrastrukturfonds, in: Lüdicke / Arndt, Geschlossene Fonds, 6. Auflage 2013
Die Verjährung von Prospekthaftungsansprüchen bei geschlossenen Fonds und Bauherrenmodellen, in: BKR 2011, 10 ff. (gemeinsam mit Sebastian Bruchwitz)
Der Begriff des Alternative Investment Fund nach der AIFM-Richtlinie – geschlossene Fonds und private Vermögensanlagegesellschaften im Anwendungsbereich?, in: DStR 2010, 1526 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Stephan Alexander Haag)
Prospekthaftung bei Berlin-Fonds - Anschlussförderung und quotale Haftung in der Prospektdarstellung, in: NZG 2010, 249 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Martina Schmidt-Modrow)
Prospekthaftung geschäftsführender Kommanditisten eines Publikumsfonds, in: BKR 8/2009, 329 ff. (gemeinsam mit Niko Oertel)
Finanzierungsleasing als Finanzdienstleistung - Vorschlag einer Begriffsbestimmung, in: DStR 2009, 709 ff. (gemeinsam mit Dr. Jochen Lüdicke)
Kommentierung Prospekthaftung (§ 13, 13a), in: Arndt / Voß, VerkProspG, 2008
Börsen- und Finanztermingeschäfte, 2004
Dr. Ernesto Drews
Dr Ernesto Drews was born in 1974 and completed his legal studies at the universities of Saarbrücken, Kingston upon Hull (UK) and Osnabrück, obtaining an LL.M in Taxation at the University of Osnabrück in 2001. In 2002 he successfully took part in an LL.M course in Commercial Law the University of Cape Town. His doctorate in law followed in 2003. Dr Drews completed his legal traineeship from 2003 to 2005 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein.
From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Drews worked at the international law firm of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, advising clients on all areas of tax law. Dr Drews became a qualified tax adviser in 2008. In 2009/2010, he successfully completed a course in financial economics at the European Business School, and is now also a qualified Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
Contact
Kind & Drews
Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB,
Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater
Königsallee 88
40212 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)211 / 418 199 25
Fax: +49 (0)211 / 882531023
Legal notices
Disclosure requirement in accordance with Section 5 German Telemedia Act (TMG)
and Regulation on Service Providers Duty to Inform (DL-InfoV):
Legal form and registration
The law firm Kind & Drews is founded as a partnership in accordance with the German partnership act and is entered
in the partnership register for the state of Nordrhein Westphalia at the court in Essen under number PR 2630.
Job title
The job title "Rechtsanwalt" (lawyer) was awarded to all the lawyers operating within the partnership in the Federal
Republic of Germany. As regards Dr. Drews, this also applies also to the job title "Steuerberater" (tax advisor).
Dr Kind and Dr Drews are registered as lawyers at the bar association (Rechtsanwaltskammer) of Düsseldorf, Freiligrathstraße 25, 40479 Düsseldorf.
Dr Drews is also member of the tax advisors association (Steuerberaterkammer) of Düsseldorf, Gafenberger Allee 98, 40237 Düsseldorf.
Professional liability insurance
The firm holds professional liability insurance at Ergo Versicherung AG, Victoriaplatz 1, 40477 Düsseldorf.
Fees
Information on fees is available at http://www.brak.de/seiten/08_01.php
We work on a fee agreement basis, and are happy to provide further details upon request.
Regulations governing professional conduct for lawyers
BRAO - Federal Code for the Legal Profession
BORA - Federal Lawyers' Code of Conduct
FAO - Specialist Lawyers' Regulations
RVG - Federal Code of Lawyers' Fees
CCBE - Code of Conduct of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union
EuRAG - Act governing European Lawyers in Germany
Law Implementing the Directives of the European Community pertaining to the professional law regulating the legal profession
The content of the regulations outlined below can be found on the website of
the German Federal Bar at http://www.brak.de under the heading "Berufsrecht".
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