Attorney at Law
With more than 20 years of experience in commercial enterprises, Wolfgang Paul has a high level of interdisciplinary expertise – not only in association/ corporate law, but also in banking and capital market law as well as commercial law. When it comes to the legal structuring of extensive projects, there is no way around him, because he keeps an eye on the big picture. His very personal claim: solutions should always be practically realisable, streamlined and economically sensible.
Career history
- 2019 Appointment as a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law
- Lawyer at nbs partners since 1 January 2017
- 2000 to 2016 In-house lawyer and general counsel at a company in the financial services, shipping and cruise industry, Hamburg
- 1995-2000 In-house counsel in a market-leading group in the food industry, Hamburg
- 1993-1995 Lawyer, Southern Germany
- 1993 Second state examination in law following legal clerkship, Hessen
- 1990 First state examination in law following law studies at the Philipps University, Marburg/Lahn
Main areas of practice
- Corporate law advice and structuring, including corporate actions and reorganisations
- Shareholder disputes
- Legal structuring of investment funds, in particular closed-end funds
- Advice on regulatory law, including the implementation of authorisation procedures in the banking and financial services sector (e.g. KAGB, WPIG, KWG)
- Money laundering prevention and transparency register
Publications
- Author in the commentary by Weitnauer/Boxberger/Anders on the German Investment Code (ISBN 978 3 406 64961 5) published by C.H. Beck-Verlag on the regulations for
- Closed-end investment limited partnerships, §§149 ff
- Distribution of AIFs, §§ 293 ff, including prospectus liability
- Transitional provisions for closed-ended legacy funds, in particular sections 343, 353
- Product regulations for closed domestic public AIFs, §§ 261 ff (from 2nd edition)
- Practical guide: Money laundering prevention in companies and organisations, Reguvis | Bundesanzeiger-Verlag, 2019 (ISBN: 978-3-8462-0956-1); authors and editors: Dr Karsten Bornholdt and Wolfgang Paul
- Further publications from recent years in the areas of corporate, capital market and money laundering law:
- The public’s right to inspect the transparency register (GWR 2023, 40)
- Legal protection in the case of suspicious activity reports under money laundering law (NJW 2022, 1769)
- The prohibition of transactions under money laundering law and its duration (CCZ 2022, 307)
- Liability under money laundering law for freelancers and other professionals (GWR 2021, 91)
- GWGMeldV real estate and suspicious activity report (Berliner Anwaltsblatt 2021, 276)
- Requests for information in the public company – Permanent challenge of data protection? (GWR 2019, 413)
- Corporate law consequences of the lack of fulfilment of due diligence obligations under money laundering law in the InvKG (ZIP 2018,12571)
- The calculation of the capital available for investments of closed-end AIFs (GWR 2016, 224)
- The acquisition of shares in the investment company designed as a Special-AIF by private investors (ZIP 2016, 1009)
- Reorganisation or exit (part 2) – problem areas under supervisory and investment law (GWR 2015, 463)
- Reorganisation or exit (part 1) – Basic and application problems with closed-end funds (GWR 2015, 419)
Memberships and involvement
- Chairman of the conciliation committee for the settlement of competition disputes at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
- Former chairman of the supervisory board of a Hamburg stock corporation for many years
