Eva-Maria Barbosa

Full Profile

Eva is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Clyde & Co and Chair of the firm’s Global Corporate & Advisory Group.

She has a broad experience of insurance regulatory and corporate insurance matters, having led on many insurance-related M&A and restructuring projects. Regarded by clients as a leading dealmaker, she focuses on projects including exit strategies for discontinued businesses, run-off and cross-border outsourcing service agreements, as well as mergers and cooperation agreements.

Awarded “Top Lawyer 2022” for M&A by WirtschaftsWoche, Eva is recognized as a market-leading adviser on transactions, in particular in the insurance and financial services sectors, including specific know-how of the regulatory frameworks.

Appreciated by clients for her “very pragmatic and commercial” approach (Chambers Germany, 2025), Eva is consistently selected a “Leading Partner” in Corporate and M&A (insurance sector deals) by Legal 500, with clients noting, that “she and her team are well connected, very service and customer oriented and with experienced professionalism” (Legal 500 Germany, 2022). She is also known as a thought leader in her field by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) noting she is a “distinguished corporate insurance specialist, renowned for her expansive knowledge of regulatory matters” (Who’s Who Legal Germany, 2022). In the 2020 edition of JUVE Handbook, Eva has been recognized as a frequently recommended lawyer for corporate advice to insurers, M&A and corporate law.

Experience

M&A-Transactions

• Coltrane Asset Management and Robus Capital on the sale of AEG Power Solutions to Hammond Power Solutions Inc. 
• Ecclesia Group on the acquisition of Assona and a strategic partnership with Special Risk Group 
• SITA on the acquisition of airline flight operations service provider Asistim
• Elektroteks on the acquisition of Mammut, a German manufacturer of industrial quilting machines
• W&W Group on the acquisition of Start Bausparkasse a subsidiary of Austrian-based financial group Bawag 
• Zurich Insurance Group on the USD 600 million acquisition of AIG’s global personal travel insurance business 

Regulatory

• Getsafe Insurance AG on the transfer of its insurance portfolio to and a sales cooperation with Andsafe AG, the digital insurer of Provinzial Group

Credentials

Admission & Qualifications

• Germany, 1999

Languages

• German
• English
• French

Education

• Universities of Freiburg and Düsseldorf