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NEEF LEGAL Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB

Partners in the meaning of the German Partnership Act (PartGG): Norbert Neef LL.M. (Miami) Attorney-at-Law Arno L. Eisen LL.M. (NYU), LL.M. (NUS) Attorney-at-Law Philipp Krüger Attorney-at-Law Haus Borchardt Französische Straße 47 D-10117 Berlin Germany Telephone: +49-30-88 91 89 70 Facsimile: +49-30-88 91 89 711 E-Mail: info[at]neef-legal.de Value Added Tax Identification Number  (§ 27a UStG) USt.-IdNr: DE 268740568

Job Title and Competent Supervisory Authorities

All Attorneys-at-Law of NEEF LEGAL are registered as Attorney-at-Law in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the Bar Association of Berlin, Littenstraße 9, 10179 Berlin, Germany, info[at]rak-berlin.de (www.rak-berlin.de).

Professional Indemnity Insurance

HDI Versicherung AG, HDI-Platz 1, 30659 Hannover; R+V Versicherung AG, 65189 Wiesbaden, each with territorial validity within the entire European Union and in the members states of the European Economic Community .

Legal Professional Regulations (in Germany)

  • Federal Code for the Legal Profession (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung; BRAO)
  • Lawyers’ Professional Code of Conduct (Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte; BORA)
  • Lawyers’ Fees Act (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz; RVG)
  • Code for Specialists Attorneys-at-Law (Fachanwaltsordnung)
  • Code of Conduct for Attorneys-at-Law in the European Community (Berufsregeln der Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Gemeinschaft; CCBE)
  • Federal Law on the Professional Activity of European Attorneys-at-Law (Gesetz über die Tätigkeit europäischer Rechtsanwälte; EuRAG)

All legal texts are accessible in German (partly also in English) on the website of the German Federal Bar Association (www.brak.de) via the button “Berufsrecht“.

Extrajudicial Mediation

For disputes between Attorneys-at-Law and their clients an extrajudicial mediation at the local Bar Association of Berlin (in accordance with § 73 Abs. 2 Nr. 3 in conjunction with § 73 Abs. 5 BRAO) or at the  Mediation Body of the German Federal Bar Association (§ 191f BRAO), to be found via the website of the German Federal Bar Association (www.brak.de), schlichtungsstelle[at]brak.de, can be requested upon motion.

Conflicts of Interest

Attorneys-at-Law are barred from acting for conflicting interest by the professional rules of conduct (§ 43a BRAO). Prior to accepting an appointment we therefore always check if a conflict of interest exists.

Editorial Content

Responsible Person under § 55 RStV is Attorney-at-Law Norbert Neef: Haus Borchardt Französische Straße 47 D-10117 Berlin Germany Telephone: +49-30-88 91 89 70 Facsimile: +49-30-88 91 89 711 E-Mail: neef[at]neef-legal.de

Exemption of Liability

NEEF LEGAL does not warrant that the information provided on these webpages are up to date, correct and/ or complete. The information provided cannot be deemed legal advice. Inasfar as links to content of external websites is provided directly or indirectly, this exemption of liability also applies.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy and the confidentiality of your data are of importance to us. Therefore, we deliberately avoid extensive tracking tools and analyses of our website’s visitors. At the same time, technology requires that certain data be collected and processed when you visit this site or contact us.

This privacy policy states which of your personal data we collect, process and use and on what grounds. In addition, we will inform you about your rights in this context and the duration of storage. Therefore, we kindly ask you to carefully read the following statements.

Controller

NEEF LEGAL Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB, Haus Borchardt, Französische Straße 47, D-10117 Berlin, Germany, (hereinafter: “we“) is the operator of the website www.neef-legal.de and therefore the controller of the personal data of the users (hereinafter: “you“) of the website in terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“) and the German Data Protection Act (“BDSG- neu“).

General Information

We protect your privacy and your personal data. We collect, process and use your personal data in accordance with the content of privacy policy and the applicable German data protection laws, including but not limited to the German Data Protection Act (“BDSG- neu”).

Personal data in the sense of this privacy policy means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name and your e-mail address

Personal data also include information about your usage of our website. This includes, for example, information about the location from which you access data from our website or the extent of the data transfer. This data is usually processed using server log files and cookies. Further information about server log files and cookies can be found under § 6 and § 7.

Duration of Storage

We delete or block your data as soon as the respective purpose of the storage is omitted. However, it may happen that the European or national legislator requires a longer storage period. In these cases, the data is not deleted or locked until the corresponding retention period has expired.

No Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We will not disclose your personal data to third parties, except if you have consented to the data transfer or if we are authorized or obliged to transfer data due to legal provisions and/or official or court directions. This may refer to cases including but not limited to the provision of information for the purposes of law enforcement, danger prevention or the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Visiting our Website

Every time you visit our website, your browser automatically sends certain information to the server of our website. This information is summarized under the term “server log files” or “log files”.

These include:

  • the IP address of your device,
  • the type of browser you are using (Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) and its version,
  • the request of your browser,
  • the time of this request,
  • the status of the request,
  • the amount of data transferred in the context of this request, and
  • the URL of the website from which you accessed our website (so-called referrer URL)

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of a website has a legitimate interest in the storage of this data, as he needs it to enable the connection to be established, to detect and eliminate errors on the website and, if necessary, to be able to prosecute any illegal attacks. The purpose of this data processing follows from the above-mentioned legitimate interest.

Use of Cookies

We use so-called cookies on our website. These are small text files which are stored on your device and which store certain settings and data for sharing with our system through your browser.

A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie data was sent, information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable our systems to recognize the user’s device and to make possible default settings immediately available. As soon as a user accesses the website, a cookie is transferred to the hard disk of the user’s terminal device.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in improving the functioning and user-friendliness of our website.

We use the data that we process using technically necessary cookies to determine the utilization of our website.

The duration of storage varies depending on whether the cookies are so-called session cookies or temporary cookies. Session cookies are automatically deleted after you leave our website. Temporary cookies are stored on your terminal for a specified period.

As a user, you have full control over the use of cookies and the data processed in this way. If you do not want to use cookies, you can set your browser so that the storage of cookies will not be accepted. Please note that in this case you may be able to use our website only partially or not at all.

Contact by E-Mail

You can contact us by sending us an e-mail using one of the two e-mail addresses provided on the website. In this case, we process the data transmitted to us, such as your e-mail address.

These data are processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f GDPR. It serves our legitimate interest in receiving enquiries from users of our website and to contact potential clients in this way. The purpose of this type of data processing follows from the legitimate interest mentioned above.