Legal Notices

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is a New York limited liability partnership with offices in the United States; Beijing, China; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Muscat, Oman. It has affiliations with a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (also named Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP) with offices in London, England; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; and Milan and Rome, Italy; a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (named Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (France) LLP) with an office in Paris, France; Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (Brussels) SRL, a Société à responsabilité limitée registered in Belgium with an office in Brussels; a Mexican partnership (named Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, S.C.) with an office in Mexico City, Mexico; a Colombian simplified stock corporation (named Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle S.A.S.) with an office in Bogotá, Colombia; an Argentine partnership (named Servicios Juridicos CMP Sociedad Civil) with an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a Kazakh limited partnership (named Curtis Mallet-Prevost (Kazakhstan) LLP with offices in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan; a Kazakh company (named Curtis Mallet-Prevost (Qazaqstan) with an office in the Astana International Financial Centre, Kazakhstan; and a Guernsey, Channel Islands entity (named Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle Ltd.) with an office in Geneva, Switzerland. Appropriate registrations are maintained in the jurisdictions in which Curtis offices are located.

LONDON
The London office is operated by our associated firm, which is also called Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.

It is registered in England as a limited liability partnership (no. OC302168) and is authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority ("SRA") (which is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society of England and Wales). A copy of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct is available on the SRA's website. Click here for details about Curtis on the SRA website.


In addition, the Legal Complaints Service, which is part of the Law Society, operates independently as the complaints handling body for the legal profession in England and Wales and provides a non-judicial dispute resolution procedure.

The London office maintains professional indemnity insurance as required by the Solicitors' Indemnity Insurance Rules. Such professional indemnity insurance is maintained, on a worldwide basis, with Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe Limited, Third Floor, Minster Court, Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7YE. Additional insurance above the mandatory coverage is also maintained.

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt and Mosle LLP
99 Gresham Street
London EC2V 7NG
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7710 9800
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7710 9801
Value Added Tax number: GB802454948
SRA number: 367685

PARIS
Information required by Directive 2000/31/CE on E-Commerce and Article 19 of French Law n° 2004-575 of 21 June 2004:

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
6, avenue Vélasquez
75008
Tél: + 33 1 42 68 72 00
Fax: + 33 1 42 66 39 62

VAT No.: FR 48 784 661 530
Paris Bar Number: J019

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is duly registered with the Paris Bar Association. Members of the Paris office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP qualified to practice law in France as avocats are members of the Paris Bar Association. Certain of them are also admitted to practice in other jurisdictions, including, among others, New York, United States.

A mention of each Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP lawyer's bar admission(s) can be found in his/her biography on this website.

The Paris office practice is regulated by the internal rules (Règlement Intérieur du Barreau de Paris) of the Paris Bar Association applicable to attorneys registered with the Paris Bar Association.

The Code of Conduct for European Lawyers and the Charter of core principles of the European legal profession may be downloaded from the website of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe.

This website is provided by Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.

FRANKFURT
Information according to sec. 5 German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz – TMG) and sec. 2 German Professional Services-Disclosure Obligations Regulation (Dienstleistungs-Informationspflichten-Verordnung – DL-InfoV):

In Germany, legal advice is rendered by Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, a partnership with limited liability under English law which is registered in England and Wales under the register number OC302168 with the Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff, CF14 3UZ. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is governed by the Rules of the Solicitors' Regulation Authority. A members' list of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is available at its registered office at 99 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7NG.

Contact:
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Moritz-von-Schwind-Haus
Bockenheimer Anlage 3
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)69 24 75 76 0
Fax: +49 (0)69 247576 555

Value Added Tax Identification No.: DE 165945508

Bar Admission
If not stated otherwise, all German lawyers of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP are admitted to practice law in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the Frankfurt Bar Association.

Provided that any of the lawyers are also tax advisers, these are admitted to practice in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the Hessian Tax Adviser Association.

Professional Indemnity Insurance

As per the German Federal Lawyers Act (BRAO) each lawyer admitted as Rechtsanwalt/Rechtsanwältin in Germany is required to maintain professional indemnity insurance at a minimum coverage amount of €250,000. Details are contained in Section 51 of BRAO. The Frankfurt office maintains such mandatory professional indemnity insurance with Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Königinstrasse 28, 80802 München, Germany. Additional insurance above the mandatory coverage is also maintained.

Online Dispute Resolution platform and Consumer Conciliation Procedures (Art. 14 para. 1 of the ODR-Ordinance and § 36 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act)

The European Commission provides a platform for out-of-court dispute resolution that can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/....

In Germany, the competent consumer conciliation board for disputes over proprietary interests resulting from a client relationship is the Lawyers' Meditation Board (Schlichtungsstelle der Rechtsanwaltschaft), Neue Grünstrasse 17, 10179 Berlin, www.schlichtungsstelle-der-rechtsanwaltschaft.de.

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP does not participate in procedures for dispute resolution before a consumer conciliation board.

Professional Regulations
The following professional regulations apply:

Lawyers:

  • BRAO – Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung
  • BORA – Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte
  • FAO – Fachanwaltsordnung
  • RVG – Gesetz über die Vergütung der Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte
  • CCBE – Berufsregeln der Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Gemeinschaft
  • EuRAG – Gesetz über die Tätigkeit europäischer Rechtsanwälte in Deutschland v. 9.3.2000 (BGBI.I S. 182)
  • Law Implementing the Directives of the European Community pertaining to the professional law regulating the legal profession

Tax Advisers:

  • StBerG – Steuerberatungsgesetz
  • DVStB – Durchführungsverordnung zum Steuerberatungsgesetz
  • BOStB – Berufsordnung der Bundessteuerberaterkammer
  • StBGebV – Steuerberatergebührenverordnung