Framework Agreements on on-going Legal Advice in various areas.

FMS Wertmanagement AöR (‘FMS-WM’ or ‘contracting authority’) was founded in 2010 as the Federal government's winding-up institution for the nationalised Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRE Group) with the aim of taking over risk positions and non-strategic operations from the HRE Group and unwinding them. As a financially independent entity under public law, FMS-WM defines the best possible wind-up strategies in each case and implements them based on the following maxim: seize opportunities for generating income and minimise losses. FMS-WM has a demand for legal advice on the following areas of law: — Tax Law; — Capital Markets Law EU; — Capital Markets Law US; — Banking Regulatory Law Germany; — Banking Regulatory Law US; — Corporate Law DE; — Financial Market Stabilisation Fund Act (‘Finanzmarktstabilisierungsfondsgesetz’ — ‘FMStFG’) / Statute of FMS-WM; FMS Wertmanagement Service GmbH (FMS-SG) is a specialist financial servicing company with approximately 400 employees across its sites in Unterschleissheim, Dublin, London and New York. FMS-SG is a wholly owned subsidiary of FMS-WM. Since October 2013, the deliverables of FMS-SG for its parent company include ongoing credit risk monitoring, maintaining the loan files or risk evaluations, the creation of various portfolio reports, the settlement of payment transactions as well as extensive preparatory work and analysis that will be used for decisions of FMS-WM related to the portfolio reduction. FMS-SG has a demand for legal advice on the following areas of law: — Banking Regulatory Law EU; — Banking Regulatory Law US; — Corporate Law DE. To meet this demand, framework agreements for the provision of legal services in the abovementioned areas of law shall be concluded. In detail, FMS-WM and FMS-SG intend to conclude framework agreements for the following lots (FMS-SG only for the lots 4, 5, 6): Lot 1: Tax Law (1 framework agreement); Lot 2: Capital Markets Law EU (up to three (3) framework agreement); Lot 3: Capital Markets Law US (1 framework agreement); Lot 4: Regulatory Law Germany (up to 3 framework agreements); Lot 5: Regulatory Law US (up to 3 framework agreements); Lot 6: Corporate Law DE (1 framework agreements); Lot 7: FMStFG / Statute (1 framework agreement).