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Dr Daniel Walden

Career

Dr Daniel Walden is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. Dr Walden specialises in commercial and corporate law and liability. He resolves complex disputes out of court as well as before state courts and arbitration tribunals, advises executive bodies (executive board, supervisory board, managing directors, etc.), accompanies shareholders' meetings and structural measures, answers questions regarding group law and accounting law-related issues and has extensive expertise in the areas of corporate social responsibility, internal business organisation and compliance as well as professional liability (auditors, tax consultants, etc.). For many years the focus of his work has been the efficient handling of directors' and officers' liability cases, taking into account the D&O insurance and, if necessary, other insurers. He also publishes regularly on the legal aspects of corporate social responsibility, gives lectures on the subject and is co-editor of the first comprehensive work on "CSR and Law".

Dr Walden studied law at the Universities of Constance and Dallas (USA) and was admitted to the German bar in 2002. He initially worked as a lawyer in the corporate law/M&A department of a US law firm in Dusseldorf and as an in-house lawyer and authorized signatory (Prokurist) in the legal department of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG in Munich. In 2009 he joined BEITEN BURKHARDT as Partner.

The industry journal JUVE lists Dr Daniel Walden as frequently recommended lawyer in the field of Dispute Resolution.
"professionally very well versed and meticulous," Competitor; Corporate Litigation, in particular management liability
(JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2019/2020)

Awards

Publications / Lectures

Books:

CSR and law - regognise and understand legal aspects of sustainable business management
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping (editors), Gabler Verlag, 1st edition 2015

Publications:

Sustainability is a matter for the boss!
Dr Daniel Walden
in: SustainableValue 1/2021, p. 22 et seq.

Sustainability - Despite the Coronavirus Still the Topic of the Future
Dr Daniel Walden
in: Zdirekt! 03/2020

Sustainability Remains Essential Even in Times of Corona!,
Dr Matthias Etzel, Dr Daniel Walden, Dr André Depping
in: Deutscher Anwaltsspiegel, 10 June 2020

Auditor's Liability to Capital Investors for Incorrect Audit Certificate (Comment on Decision)
Dr Daniel Walden
in: Der Betrieb no. 22, 02 June 2020, p. 1167 et seq.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Rights, Duties and Liability of the Management Board and Supervisory Board
Dr Daniel Walden
in: NZG 2/2020, p. 50 et seq.

Legal Committee as Game Changer - the German Act for Implementing the Second EU Shareholder Rights Directive, ARUG II: Now More Sustainability Through Remuneration of the Management Board?
Dr Daniel Walden
in: Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, 25/2019, p. 10 et seq.

Human Rights Litigation – Future Trend or Individual Cases with High Publicity?
Dr Daniel Walden, Dr André Depping and Dr Matthias Etzel
in. DisputeResolution, 3/2018, p. 11 et seq.

It's about responsible management
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, 24/2015, p. 15 et seq.

Claim for the Return of Payments Made to Buy off Actions to Set Aside Resolutions
Daniel Walden and Erik Ehmann
in: NZG 2013, p. 806-809

On The Incongruity of Blanket Assignments
Daniel Walden
BKR 2006, p. 162-163

Cross-border Merger into a European Company: Planning and Preparation
Daniel Walden and Andreas Meyer-Landrut
in: DB 2005, p. 2119-2127

Cross-border Merger into a European Company: Resolution and Registration
Daniel Walden and Andreas Meyer-Landrut
in: DB 2005, p. 2619-2623

Freedom of Establishment, Registered Seat Theory, and Submission Decision (Vorlagebeschluss) of the VII Division for Civil Matters at the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) as of 30 March 2000
Daniel Walden
in: EWS 2001, p. 256-263.

Lectures:

"Importance of Sustainability and CSR for Compliance", Conference of Deutsches Aktieninstitut "Association Sanctions, Corona, Wirecard - Latest Developments in Compliance", 2 December 2020, Frankfurt a.M. / online

"Sustainability, ESG and CSR: Liability risks for Executive Board and Supervisory Board", MWV-Seminar "Aktuelle Themen der D&O-Versicherung", 23 November 2020, online

"Corporate Social Responsibility as a Compliance Factor: Thinking Compliance and CSR Management together", German Compliance Conference 2020, 16 September 2020, online

"Corporate Social Responsibility: The Growing Importance for Directors' and Officers' Liability and for D&O Insurers", Euroforum Conference Liability 2020, 22 January 2020, Hamburg

"Sustainability in Management and Supervisory Boards: Rights and Duties", Conference of Deutsches Aktieninstitut "Focus on Sustainability - New Developments in CSR and Sustainable Finance", 21 November 2019, Frankfurt