Saber Baratzadeh
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Dr. Saber Baratzadeh

Senior Associate

Email

saber.baratzadeh@aoshearman.com

Phone

+49 211 2806 7110

Offices

Dusseldorf

V-CARD
Saber advises national and international companies in the insurance and financial sector on general corporate matters, domestic and cross-border transactions, including joint ventures and restructurings, as well as on regulatory issues.

Before joining as an associate in 2021, he worked as a trainee lawyer and research assistant for the firm in Düsseldorf and Dubai. Saber speaks German, English and Persian.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Swiss Life on the reorgnization of its German insurance business including the establishment and licensing of a Societas Europea as life insurer.
  • Frankfurter Leben on the acquisition of Generali Deutschland Pensionskasse AG.
  • Zurich on its contemplated sale of a substantial part of its German life insurance business to Viridium.
  • Athora on its contemplated acquisition of a German life insurance business from AXA.
  • Arthur J. Gallagher & Co on its acquisition of the KROSE Group – a German insurance intermediary providing international commercial insurance and reinsurance solutions and specialises in the design and placement of complex programmes working collaboratively with in-house risk managers and insurance departments at large corporates.
  • Deutsche BetriebsRenten Holding on the buyout of Credit Suisse pension liabilities from UBS.

Recognition

“Leading Associate”
Legal 500 2026

Qualifications

Admissions

Rechtsanwalt, Germany 2020

Academic

Dr jur., University of Dusseldorf, Germany, 2024

Second German Law Degree, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2019

First German Law Degree, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, 2016

Languages

English, Farsi (Persian), German
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.