Joachim Grote

Dr Joachim Grote is a lawyer and managing partner at the Cologne office. He is a Specialist Insurance Lawyer and leads the firm’s staff department in three specialist areas: Life & Regulatory, Disability and Accident, and Health. Dr Joachim Grote is one of the most renowned insurance lawyers in Germany, specialising in regulatory advice to insurers, insurtechs and financial service providers. His advice offers the necessary pragmatism and a solution-focussed approach in addition to professional quality when it comes to the introduction of a wide range of products, such as the creation of new insurance products for all business, sales and brokerage concepts, including the design of brokerage agreements and compliance systems. Dr Joachim Grote also advises on the design of corporate or portfolio transactions, such as mergers and portfolio transfers, capitalisation issues and reinsurance concepts. In addition, he has supported restructuring projects within insurance groups, new formations or conversions of subsidiaries within insurance groups into branches and vice versa, and the commencement of service transactions. Dr Joachim Grote is a highly regarded author of insurance law articles and commentaries as well as a sought-after lecturer.