Corporate, Commercial and Compliance Insurance
Based in Clyde & Co’s Munich office, Eva-Maria is a leading corporate lawyer with broad experience of insurance regulatory and corporate insurance matters. Eva is also Chair of the Global Corporate & Advisory Group.
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+49 89 244420 101 eva-maria.barbosa@clydeco.comMain Office
Munich
+49 89 244420 100 +49 89 244420 199Regions covered
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.
Eva was educated at the Universities of Freiburg and Düsseldorf and is qualified as a lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) in 1999.
Eva speaks German, English and French.
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. In 2019 she was named “Best in Insurance and Reinsurance” at the Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Europe Women in Business Law Awards.
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 Wefox
- SITA on the acquisition of airline flight operations service provider Asistim
- Elektroteks on the acquisition of Mammut, a German manufacturer of industrial quilting machines
- Zurich Insurance Group on the USD 600 million acquisition of AIG’s global personal travel insurance business