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Schalast & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB
Mendelssohnstraße 75-77
60325 Frankfurt am Main

Telefon +49 (0)69 / 97 58 31 0
Telefax +49 (0)69 / 97 58 31 20
E-Mail frankfurt@schalast.com

Registered office
Frankfurt am Main

Register
Frankfurt am Main District Court, PR 1087

Value added tax identification number
DE 213898378

Management
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schalast und Prof. Dr. Andreas Walter

The partnership is represented by the partners of the partnership firm: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schalast, Clemens Schalast, Gregor Wedell, Prof. Dr. Andreas Walter, Kristof Schnitzler, Dr. Oliver von Schweinitz, Alexander Gebhard, Dr. Matthias Geurts, Andreas Seidel, Dr. Michael Berghaus, Jan Schneider, Wolfgang Sigler, Dr. Niklas J. Schreiner, Prof. Joachim Ritter von Strobl-Albeg und Christian Ritter von Strobl-Albeg, Dr. Kerstin Gründig-Schnelle, Dr. Thomas Sambuc, Dr. Alexander Hauch, Janka Schwaibold, Markus Ruhmann, Dr. Christoph Thies.

Responsible for the content
Prof. Dr. Andreas Walter (address see above)

Licence
The persons referred to as lawyers on the website are admitted to the bar in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the bar association responsible for their respective branch:

Lawyers at the Frankfurt office
Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Anlage 36, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Tel. 069 / 17009801, Internet: www.rakffm.de

Lawyers at the Berlin office
Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin, Littenstraße 9, 10179 Berlin, Tel. 030 / 3069310, Internet: www.rak-berlin.de

Lawyers at the Düsseldorf office
Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf, Freiligrathstraße 25, 40479 Düsseldorf, Tel. 0211 / 495020, Internet: www.rak-dus.de

Lawyers at the Hamburg office
Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg, Valentinskamp 88, 20355 Hamburg, Tel. 040 / 3574410, Internet: www.rak-hamburg.de

Lawyers at the Stuttgart office
Rechtsanwaltskammer Stuttgart, Königstraße 14, 70173 Stuttgart, Tel. 0711 / 2221550, Internet: www.rak-stuttgart.de

The above bar associations are also responsible as supervisory authorities for lawyers.

Professional regulations
The following professional regulations apply to lawyers, which can be viewed on the website of the Federal Bar Association (www.brak.de) under the heading "Professional Law":

• BRAO - Federal Lawyers' Act
• BORA - Professional Code of Conduct for Lawyers
• FAO - Specialist Lawyers' Act
• RVG - Act on the Remuneration of Attorneys at Law
• Rules of Professional Conduct of Lawyers in the European Community (CCBE)
• EuRAG - Act on the Activities of European Lawyers in Germany

The representation of conflicting interests is prohibited for lawyers by professional regulations (Section 43a (4) BRAO). Before accepting a mandate, it is therefore checked whether there is a conflict of interest.

Notary
The persons designated as notaries on the website are admitted as notaries in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the following chamber of notaries:

Frankfurt/Main Chamber of Notaries, Bockenheimer Anlage 36, 60322 Frankfurt/Main, tel. 069 / 17009802, online: www.notarkammer-ffm.de

The supervisory authority is the President of the Regional Court Frankfurt am Main, Gerichtsstrasse 2, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, the President of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt am Main and the State Judicial Administration

 The following professional regulations apply to notaries:

• Federal Notarial Code (BNotO)
• Notarisation Act (BeurkG)
• Court and Notary Costs Act (GNotKG)
• Service Regulations for Notaries (DONot)
• Ordinance on the Maintenance of Notarial Records and Directories (NotAktVV)
• Professional guidelines of the Chamber of Notaries
• European Code of Professional Conduct (European Code of Notarial Professional Conduct)

The fee and professional regulations as well as the European Code of Professional Conduct can be accessed via the website of the Federal Chamber of Notaries (www.bnotk.de).

Tax advisers

The persons referred to on the website as tax advisers are admitted as tax advisers in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the following Chamber of Tax Advisers:

Chamber of Tax Advisers of Hesse Corporation under Public Law Bleichstrasse 1, 60313 Frankfurt/Main Tel. 069 / 15 30 02-0, online: www.stbk-hessen.de

The competent supervisory authority is the Board of the Chamber of Tax Advisers of Hesse, Bleichstrasse 1, 60313 Frankfurt/Main.

The following professional regulations apply to tax advisers, which can be viewed on the website of the Federal Chamber of Tax Advisers (www.bstbk.de) under the heading "Your tax adviser", there "Professional law":

• Tax Consultancy Act
• Implementing Ordinance to the Tax Consultancy Act
• Ordinance on the Remuneration of Tax Advisers
• Professional Code of Conduct of the Federal Chamber of Tax Consultants
• Professional adviser regulations

Professional liability insurance

ERGO Versicherung AG, ERGO-Platz 1, 40477 Düsseldorf. There is no geographical limitation to the scope of the insurance.

Online dispute resolution, consumer arbitration board

The European Commission provides a platform for out-of-court online dispute resolution (so-called ODR platform) at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. We are not obligated to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer dispute resolution body and are generally not prepared to do so.