The following information is provided under section 5 of Telemediengesetz (German telemedia act) and under the Dienstleistungs-Informationspflichten-Verordnung (decree on information duties regarding services).

General information:

Law office and notary’s office
Harald Welge & Kollegen
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 105
34119 Kassel

Germany

telephone: 0049 (0)561 70763-0
fax: 0049 (0)561 18767

email:

Value added tax identification number: DE113051728

Professional regulations:

All solicitors/lawyers of the law office Welge & Kollegen are admitted to the bar in Germany.
They are members of the

Rechtsanwaltskammer Kassel (bar association of Kassel)
Karthäuser Straße 5a
34117 Kassel

Germany

telephone: 0049 (0)561 788098-0
fax: 0049 (0)561 788098-11

email:

The following professional regulations are relevant for their profession as solicitors/lawyers. They can be found on the website of the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (German federal chamber of lawyers) (www.brak.de):

• Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (German federal lawyer’s act)
• Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (Professional code of
  conduct for lawyers)
• Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (German lawyer’s fees act)
• Berufsregeln der Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Union
  (Code of conduct for lawyers in the European Union)

According to section 43a of the German federal lawyer’s act German solicitors/lawyers are not allowed to represent conflicting interests. For this reason we will always check of conflicting interests before we accept the instruction.

Mr Welge is a notary who is admitted according to the law of the state of Hessen and of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a member of the

Notarkammer Kassel (chamber of notaries of Kassel)
Karthäuser Straße 5a
34117 Kassel

Germany

telephone: 0049 (0)561 788098-0
fax: 0049 (0)561 788098-11

email:

The following professional regulations are relevant for Mr Welge’s profession as a notary. They can be found on the website of the Bundesnotarkammer (German federal chamber of notaries) (www.bnotk.de):

• Bundesnotarordnung (German federal notary act)
• Beurkundungsgesetz (German recording act)
• Kostenordnung (German costs law)
  
  

Professional liability insurance:

According to section 51 of the German federal lawyer’s act all
German solicitors/lawyers are obliged to keep a professional
liability insurance. 
We keep a professional liability insurance for our profession as lawyers/solicitors and as a notary at the following insurance company: Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Großer Burstah 3,
20457 Hamburg.
The territorial area of application of the insurance:
Germany and all the other countries of the European Union.

Alternative Dispute Resolution:

In case of a dispute between a lawyer/solicitor and his client there
are the following possibilities of an alternative dispute resolution upon request:

• at the bar association of Kassel (according to section 73 of the German federal lawyer’s act),
• the Schlichtungsstelle der Rechtsanwaltschaft (arbitration committee of the German federal chamber of lawyers) (www.brak.de),
  email: .

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