In connection with the business activities of our lawyers, auditors and tax advisors, we, Noerr PartGmbB process the personal data of (potential) clients and their employees, representatives and/or advisors of our clients and their employees, opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, representatives and/or advisors of opposing parties in legal proceedings and their employees, employees of insurers, experts and their employees, employees of courts and/or authorities, employees of the Noerr companies that cooperate with us and the Noerr notary’s offices, as well as the law firms, tax advisory and/or auditing firms outside the Noerr companies and the Noerr notary’s offices that cooperate with us and their employees for the following purposes:

• Identification of our (potential) clients, their economic beneficiary, the persons acting for them and their authorisation before or upon establishing the client relationship and carry out a comparison with sanctions lists,
• conflict check to avoid conflicts of interests before establishing the client relationship,
• preparation of the client relationship in particular for pre-contractual correspondence to prepare offers and cost estimates,
• advising and representing our clients appropriately in connection with the engagement, in particular to exercise and defend the rights of our clients, including correspondence with our clients, opposing parties in legal proceedings and their representatives as well as with courts and/or authorities,
• sending correspondence and other items on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
• disbursement, receipt or forwarding of third-party funds on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
• translations on behalf of our clients in connection with engagements,
• proper internal administration, including maintaining reference files and the operation of IT systems for administrative purposes,
• proper accounting and invoicing,
• proper retention of documents in order to meet statutory, professional, anti-money laundering, commercial and tax law retention obligations and for evidence purposes for any establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims,
• settlement any existing liability claims and the exercise of any claims against our clients,
• cooperate with courts and/or authorities in order to comply with statutory obligations,
• liaison with external auditors and tax advisors in order to comply with statutory obligations,
• client relationship management and the alignment of our advisory services with the needs and wishes of our (potential) clients,
• naming of references for rankings and analyses by press publishers and analysts.