Dr. Paul Schultess

Dr. Paul Schultess advises financial institutions as well as insurance companies and insurance brokers on all matters relating to financial regulatory law.

His practice focuses on advising on regulatory issues relating to corporate governance, assisting with audits by supervisory authorities, special representatives, and annual auditors, introducing new products, and all compliance-related issues.

One focus of his work is insurance and liability law. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Insurance Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and was awarded the prestigious Frankfurt Prize for Insurance Sciences in 2025 for his publications on insurance law.

Contact

Dr. Paul Schultess
Attorney at Law / Senior Associate
+49 69 90 747 0
paul.schultess@waldeck.eu

Practice Areas

Banking law and banking regulation
Compliance
Money laundering law / AFC
Insurance law and insurance regulation
Payment services law and payment services regulation

Languages

German
English
Spanish

Vita

Since 2026
Attorney at WALDECK RECHTSANWÄLTE
Since 2024
Lecturer on corporate liability and insurance law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2023-2026
Attorney at Annerton, Frankfurt am Main
2023-2024
Visiting professor at Université Lumière Lyon 2
2022
Doctorate / PhD equivalent at the University of Bonn
2021 – 2024
Research assistant at the Institute for Insurance Law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2021–2023
Legal traineeship at the Regional Court of Wiesbaden, including a placement at BaFin (German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority)
2018–2021
Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Labor Law, RWTH Aachen University
2012–2018
legal studies at the University of Cologne