Allianz SE has announced that its indirect subsidiary Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC has entered into settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the Structured Alpha matter. These settlements fully resolve the U.S. governmental investigations of the Structured Alpha matter for Allianz.
Hengeler Mueller advised Allianz on corporate and capital markets law as well as on compliance matters in connection with these proceedings and the civil action proceedings, which have in the meantime also been settled. The team included partners Jochen Vetter, Simon Link (both Corporate/Capital Markets, Munich), Daniel Weiß (Compliance, Frankfurt) and Vera Jungkind (Data Protection, Düsseldorf), counsel Malte Wundenberg (Compliance, Frankfurt) as well as associates Sara Dietz, Patrick Hell (both Corporate/Capital Markets, Munich), Daniel Adolph, Amir Hanna, Georg Lorenz, Nükhet Tanrikulu (all Compliance, Frankfurt) and Frederic Geber (Data Protection, Düsseldorf).
