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Corporate/M&A - Dispute Resolution - ESG - Financial Services and Insurance Law
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Dr Daniel Walden is Partner at ADVANT Beiten's Munich office and a 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 ESG, Due diligence in the supply chain, internal business organisation and compliance. 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 ESG, gives lectures on the subject (e.g. as a lecturer at EBS) and is co-editor of the first comprehensive work on "CSR and Law" as well as the the first commentary on the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act.
Dr Daniel 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 ADVANT Beiten as Partner.
Books:
Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)
C.H.BECK, Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping (editors), 2022
CSR and law - regognise and understand legal aspects of sustainable business management
Gabler Verlag, Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping (editors), 1st edition 2015
Publications:
Sustainable supply chain management: differences and similarities according to LkSG and ESRS S2´
Dr Daniel Walden
in: haufe.de, 2024
CSDDD: The planned EU Supply Chain Directive and key differences to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)
Dr Daniel Walden
in: haufe.de, 2024
EU supply chain law: it's coming, it's not coming, it's coming, it's not coming...
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: ZVertriebsR, Issue 2/2024, p. 69 ff.
Human rights due diligence and ESG - a new field of activity (also) for lawyers
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: Karriere im Recht, 1/2024, p. 4 ff.
Complex regulatory landscape overwhelms many lawyers
Dr. Daniel Walden (Quotes)
in: Handelsblatt.com, December 11, 2023
LkSG-related human rights due diligence obligations when acquiring a company
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: M&A Review, 07 September 2023
Shell on the frontline of climate change litigation
Dr Daniel Walden
in: energyvoice.com, 09 June 2023
Climate change litigation: contribution to global justice or departure from basic (civil) legal principles?
Dr Daniel Walden and Lukas Frischholz
in: ZIP 49/2022, 09 December 2022, p. 2473 et seq.
Human rights due diligence in the supply chain: BAFA seeks to concretize the LkSG
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: SustainableValue 4/2022, p. 18 et seq.
Improving the Protection of Human Rights - In Focus: The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr André Depping
in: SustainableValue, 20 June 2022
Consideration of environmental and social sustainability: Proposed amendments by the Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code
Dr Daniel Walden and Dr. André Depping
in: SustainableValue 1/2022, p. 3 et seq.
ESG stakeholders at a glance
Dr Daniel Walden, Dr André Depping and Martina Seidl
in: SustainableValue 4/2021, p. 11 et seq.
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:
Dr. Daniel Walden has been a lecturer in the Corporate Sustainable Finance compact course and in an in-house certificate course at the EBS Executive School since 2020 and holds several courses per year on ESG and law
"Business Ethics", 2nd LBBW ESG Academy, June 18, 2024
"NIS2 Directive / Cybersecurity: Management responsibility, requirements and risks." BVMW Entrepreneur Breakfast May 13, 2024
"ESG as a deal driver and stress test for due diligence", Evolve M&A, 19 March 2024
"One year of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) - Update", Compliance Lunch Break with the BDI, 6 March 2024
Update on particularly relevant ESG topics for the legal department, Syndikus Networking Event 2024, 6 March 2024
"Legal requirements for international supply chains under the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)", Außenwirtschaft Austria event, 1 February 2024
"Understanding ESG reporting obligations and implementing them effectively in the company", 3rd German General Counsel Congress 2024, 30 January 2024
"Supply Chain Due Diligence Act - Challenges in implementation", Compliance Lunch Break, 8 November 2023
ESG Panel Conference in Istanbul, 18 October 2023
"The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act - Current focal points in the scope of application and risk analysis", Compliance Lunch Break with the BDI, 13 September 2023
"Requirements for supply chains - Particularities in Brazil", Webinar hosted by the Association for Latin America, 15. Juni 2023
"The Supply Chain Act in Practice", Online Info Event of wvib Schwarzwald AG, 28 March 2023
"Economic, environmental and social: Management and supervisory boards in the crossfire of ESG risks and opportunities, new regulation, reputation and greenwashing", 12th Hamburg Financial Lines Forum, October 21, 2022.
akzente WEBTALK: LkSG in practice: the risk analysis, November 8, 2022 [also available online: akzente Webtalk "LkSG in der Praxis" (1/4) Die Risikoanalyse - YouTube]
"Making supply chains sustainable: What's in store for (small and medium-sized) companies with the Supply Chain Sourcing Obligations Act?", 10th Bavarian CSR Day, September 29, 2022.
"Legal challenges related to supply chain law and ESG", VIR Online Innovation Days, June 1, 2022.
"On the (legal) challenges and practical implementation options of the new due diligence requirements in the supply chain under the LkSG", IHK event Sustainable supply chain: options for action for companies against the background of the LkSG, May 24, 2022.
Supply Chain Act: implications for Austrian companies, AußenwirtschaftsCenter München, April 27, 2022 [also available online: Webinar | München | LIEFERKETTENGESETZ - Auswirkungen auf österreichische Unternehmen | 27.04.2022 - YouTube]
"Fit for Future: incorporating ESG aspects into M&A transactions", 19th German Corporate M&A Congress, November 16, 2021.
Q&A session Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, web series "Due Diligence Act: What's in store for companies?" of the Bavarian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, October 21, 2021.
Background and overview of the German Supply Chain Act, seminar "Supply Chain Act - Impact on German and Chinese Companies" by BWA - Bundesverband für Wirtschaftsförderung und Außenwirtschaft Global e.V., September 17, 2021
"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
