The law firm Kind & Drews advises entrepreneurs, fund managers, family offices, foundations and high net-worth individuals regarding bank and investment law, individual and transaction-related tax law, property transactions and mergers & acquisitions.
The focus of our advice is on achieving the economic aims of our clients – this is the key context to all our legal and tax-related considerations and recommendations.
Kind & Drews are specialized in the areas of investment
and real estate law and transaction-related legal and tax advice.
We support our clients comprehensively in:
Experience is the basis of any successful advice. The partners of the firm have advised entrepreneurs, fund managers, family offices, foundations and high net-worth individuals over the course of many years, and are familiar with market conditions and practices through lengthy experience working for one of the largest and most renowned international law firms.
Dr Sebastian Kind was born in 1972 and, following a banking apprenticeship, completed his legal studies at Trier University, where he also obtained his doctorate in the law of derivative instruments. This was followed by a legal traineeship at the Düsseldorf district higher regional court (OLG), including a period working in the legal department of a major German bank in New York.
From 2003 to 2012, Dr Kind worked in the banking and finance law practice group of international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, specializing in the areas of funds structuring and project financing, and of financial law regulation and private capital market law.
During this time, Dr Kind also spent six months working for a bank in London.
Dr. Ernesto Drews, born in 1974, studied law at the universities of Saarbrücken, Kingston upon Hull, and Osnabrück, and completed the LL.M. program in “Taxation” at the University of Osnabrück in 2001. In 2002, he successfully completed the LL.M. program in “Commercial Law” at the University of Cape Town. He was awarded his doctorate (Dr. iur.) in 2003. Dr. Ernesto Drews completed his legal clerkship from 2003 to 2005 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein.
From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Ernesto Drews worked for the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, where he advised clients comprehensively in the field of tax law. Since 2008, Dr. Ernesto Drews has also been admitted as a tax advisor. In 2009/2010, he completed the part-time program “Financial Economics” at the European Business School and, following its completion, is now also certified as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
Kind & Drews
Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB,
Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater
Königsallee 88
40212 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)211 / 418 199 25
Fax: +49 (0)211 / 882531023
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Legal form and registration
The law firm Kind & Drews is founded as a partnership in accordance with the German partnership act and is entered
in the partnership register for the state of Nordrhein Westphalia at the court in Essen under number PR 2630.
Job title
The job title “Rechtsanwalt” (lawyer) was awarded to all the lawyers operating within the partnership in the Federal
Republic of Germany. As regards Dr. Drews, this also applies also to the job title “Steuerberater” (tax advisor).
Dr Kind and Dr Drews are registered as lawyers at the bar association (Rechtsanwaltskammer) of Düsseldorf, Freiligrathstraße 25, 40479 Düsseldorf.
Dr Drews is also member of the tax advisors association (Steuerberaterkammer) of Düsseldorf, Gafenberger Allee 98, 40237 Düsseldorf.
Professional liability insurance
The firm holds professional liability insurance at Ergo Versicherung AG, Victoriaplatz 1, 40477 Düsseldorf.
Fees
Information on fees is available at http://www.brak.de/seiten/08_01.php
We work on a fee agreement basis, and are happy to provide further details upon request.
Regulations governing professional conduct for lawyers
BRAO – Federal Code for the Legal Profession
BORA – Federal Lawyers’ Code of Conduct
FAO – Specialist Lawyers’ Regulations
RVG – Federal Code of Lawyers’ Fees
CCBE – Code of Conduct of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union
EuRAG – Act governing European Lawyers in Germany
Law Implementing the Directives of the European Community pertaining to the professional law regulating the legal profession
The content of the regulations outlined below can be found on the website of
the German Federal Bar at http://www.brak.de under the heading “Berufsrecht”.
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