Amrei Zürn, LL.M.

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Amrei’s practice focuses on insurance law, especially in financial and professional lines (D&O, E&O, PI), Cyber, and casualty product liability as well as commercial litigation and arbitration. She further advises on matters of product development and insurance regulatory law. Admitted to the Düsseldorf Bar, Amrei is admitted to practice in Germany. During her legal clerkship, Amrei worked for the European Commission, DG Connect, especially on legal issues in the course of digitisation as well as on a proposal for a new Directive. She also worked for a major law firm in the fields of insurance law, commercial litigation and arbitration. Amrei holds a Master of Law from Queen Mary University of London.

Education

• German legal studies and French law studies at Humboldt University of Berlin
• Continuation of German legal studies at the University of Freiburg
• Master of Law at Queen Mary University of London

Experience

• Acting as monitoring counsel in complex domestic and international D&O claims

• Advising on insurance regulatory law matters regarding a D&O claim in China

• Drafting of and advising on policy wordings in the field of cyber and reinsurance law

• Acting as coverage counsel for a construction all risks insurer with regard to damages relating to an offshore windfarm

• Acting as coverage counsel in an international ship transportation insurance case

• Acting as coverage counsel regarding product recalls

• Acting as monitoring and coverage counsel in the field of professional liability insurance

• Advising on product liability and liability for software defects as well as insurance law matters with respect to Industry 4.0