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CONTENTS

MY PROFILE

RANGE OF SERVICES

Translation English<->German, certified and non-certified

Interpreting services English<->German

Specialist areas

INTERPRETING ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMPLES

CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

TESTIMONIALS

QUALIFICATION & MISCELLANEOUS

CONTACT DETAILS



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MY PROFILE

ABOUT ME

Melanie Nikolaus

Accredited, sworn & certified court translator and interpreter

for the English (German) language

Member of the BDÜ/VbDÜ, German associations of professional linguists

My mother lives in Bristol, UK

Language combinations:

English-German

German-English

Freelance translator and interpreter since 1996



http://www.bdue.de/

http://www.vbdu.de/

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MY PROFILE

SPECIALIST AREAS:

• Business, economics and law

Translations and interpreting assignments don't always fit in a

certain box, they often relate to several subjects.

Based on

• My college education as well as

• Long years of professional experience combined with

• Continuous professional development

I have, however, developed a number of specialist areas.

Range of services (in brief):

Translating from German into English and from English into

German

Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting services from

German into English and from English into German



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RANGE OF SERVICES

Translations - certified or uncertified

• Annual reports (HGB or IFRS)

• Balance sheets, bankruptcy law, briefs

• Competition law, Commercial Register, Companies House

documentation, contracts drawn up by civil-law notaries, copyright

law, court decisions and arbitration awards, company law,

commercial law

• Due diligence documentation

• Economic law

• Financial statements for the year

• General Terms and Conditions, general business texts

• Insurance, international arbitration proceedings

• Labour law, landlord and tenant law

• Marketing, market research, Memorandum and Articles of

Association, mergers & acquisitions

• Power tools, presentations

• Rules and regulations, real estate law,

• Share and option plans, SPA, sales

• Tax law

• Writs

TRANSLATING English<->German Certified or uncertified



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Interpreting services

Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting services, examples • Annual General Meetings, Board of Directors, business negotiations,

• Economics, engineering, fashion, finance, general

• International events, training, meetings, conferences and events, int.

arbitration proceedings

• Legal, market research

• Miscellaneous: evening event for journalists from the trade press, in a

schnapps distillery

• Presentations, press events, psychology

• Real estate (investments)

• Shareholder meetings, Supervisory Board meetings

• Trade fairs

Target audience

• Public authorities (e.g. health department, prison, police, public

prosecutor, registry office, tax fraud investigation bureau, customs

authorities)

• Expert audience

• Companies and corporations

• Courts

• Civil-law notaries

• Private individuals

• Lawyers

INTERPRETING English<->German Simultaneous or consecutive interpreting



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CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Legal

a) Legal general

• Legal translation at SDI Munich (contracts, certificates, food law,

differences between Anglo-American and German legislation, Public

Service Interpreters)

• Interpreting the Future, international BDÜ conference in Berlin (2009 and

2012)

• Legal translation seminar

• Legal translation seminar, Richard Delaney, Hanover

• Regular attendance of BDÜ group of legal translators in Munich,

specialising on various areas of expertise in law

• David Hutchins, solicitor: English Legal System

• ILEC (International Legal English Certificate) course

b) Labour law

• David Hutchins, solicitor: Employment Law

• MMag. Franz J. Heidinger, LL.M. (Virginia), lawyer-linguist with

extensive experience in international commercial law

CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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c) Tort law

• MMag. Franz J. Heidinger, LL.M. (Virginia)

d) Family law

• Pre/postmarital agreements: translating and interpreting for civil-law

notaries, Barbara M. Müller-Grant

• David Hutchins, solicitor: family law, divorce and children

• MMag. Franz J. Heidinger, LL.M. (Virginia), lawyer-linguist with extensive

experience in international commercial law

e) Company/commercial law, trusts, insolvency

• Aspects of German and Anglo-American company law

• Company and Commercial - Legal Principles and Translation (MA Legal

Translation module), City University London

• Company law, Richard Delaney, Erfurt


• Trusts: MMag. Franz J. Heidinger, LL.M. (Virginia)

• Insolvencies: Munich

CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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f) Intellectual property law

• David Hutchins, solicitor: Intellectual Property Law


g) Real estate law

• Real Estate Transactions in Germany, Barbara M. Müller-Grant, Hanover

• Real estate law, SPAs, translating and interpreting for civil-law notaries,

Barbara M. Müller-Grant


h) M & A

• Mergers and Acquisitions, Berlin & Munich

i) Estate law

• David Hutchins, solicitor: Wills

j) Arbitration


CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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k) Tax law


l) Criminal law

• Criminal law

• Anglo-American and German criminal law, translating/interpreting in a

criminal-law context (E-D/D-E), Dr. Margaret Marks, Offenbach

• David Hutchins, solicitor: Criminal procedure in England and Wales

m) Insurance law


CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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n) Contract law

• Tips and tricks for translating contracts in Berlin

• Legal English: Contract Law in Esslingen and Regensburg with Stuart

Bugg

• Beginning and end of a contract – preamble and separability clause as

well as confidentiality clauses in contracts, Richard Delaney, Berlin

• Paragraph & Rider, Richard Delaney, Berlin

• Contract law, Richard Delaney, Karlsruhe

• David Hutchins, solicitor: Contracts and Contract Formation


CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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o) Civil law

• English civil law at City University London (Common Law, equity,

equitable remedies, Lord Woolf Reforms, court structure, issuing

proceedings, defence & counterclaim, judgment, confidentiality

agreement, formation of contract, consideration, terms and

representations, exemption clauses, incorporation, construction, defects,

deeds, basic principles of company law, memorandum and articles of

association, land law, litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution)

• "English civil law continued" at City University London (differences in

contracts, English contract law in detail, Supreme Court, Court of Faculty,

Faculty Office, notaries in England and Wales, litigation: commencing an

action, judgment, remedies, commercial agency agreement, tort)


CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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2. Business, finance

• IFRS, Munich

• International Financial Reporting Standards, Fry & Bonthrone, Berlin

• German GAAP Financial Statements, Fry & Bonthrone, Berlin

• Multiple Style and Register Requirements for Annual Report Translation, Fry & Bonthrone, Berlin

• German Annual Report Masterclass, Fry & Bonthrone, Leipzig

• Advertising language

3. Interpreting

• Training for court and public service interpreters

• Note-taking techniques, Kirsty Heimerl-Moggan, Hanover &

Aschaffenburg

• Court interpreter event in Hanover

• Interpreting for asylum seekers

CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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4. Professional development, other

Examples:

• SDL Trados Studio 2009, 20 November 2011 in Munich

• Turbo tools for translators, the internet viewed as a corpus

• Focusing on the customer

• Marketing etc.

CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

•Legal

•Business

•Finance

•Interpreting



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SPECIALIST AREAS

• General terms and conditions, labour law (e.g. labour contracts)

• Balance sheets

• Interpreting, due diligence

• Power tools

• Mergers & acquisitions

• Annual reports, company law,

• Commercial law

• Real estate law, bankruptcy law, international arbitration proceedings

• Financial statements for the year

• SPA, cooperation agreements

• Marketing, market research, mergers & acquisitions

• Landlord and tenant law

• Contracts drawn up by civil-law notaries

• Simultaneous interpreting, SPA, tax law

• Copyright law, documents

• Contract law, sales, insurance

• Economic law

• Certificates

SPECIALIST AREAS E<->German Based on experience, education and

development



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INTERPRETING ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMPLES

1. Simultaneous interpreting

a) Business, finance

• KPMG (various international events)

• German savings bank event, McKinsey

• Ordinary General Meeting, Data Modul AG, with my colleague Jasmin

Haeuser, Munich

• Shareholder meetings

• Supervisory board meetings

b) Engineering

• International meeting of machinery rings

• Audi Production Award, 2011 and 2012

• Changing Demography: How it affects employees and work, BMW

Dingolfing, with my colleague Marion Schätzle, November 2011

• BMW plant Landshut, guided tour for foreign visitors

• Trumpf, international sales meeting (since 2011)

SIMULTANEOUS

INTERPRETING • Business

• Engineering

• Fashion

• Finance

• General

• Legal

• Psychology

• Real estate

• Sales



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b) Engineering (continued)

• Festool, Protool, TTS: various international events, meetings and

conferences such as international after-sales service events, key user

conference, strategic automotive meeting, international press event, train

the trainer, partner event with my colleague Ingrid Rieger (since 2001)

• SWF cranes, Munich, Hotel Eurostars Grand Central, with my colleague

Marion Schätzle, 21 + 22 June 2012

• Knauf AMF GmbH & Co. KG, Group Management Meeting, Grafenau

• Water and the climate, German Society for International Cooperation

(GIZ) with my colleague Walter Günther in November 2012 and 2013

c) Entertainment & social events

• Constantin Film, "Tarzan" press conference in June 2012

• Laureus Sports for Good Award, fund-raising event in Kleine Olympiahalle in

Munich, with my colleague Iris Dahlmeier

• Sky Germany with my colleagues Mechthild Blohm, Sabine Bausch

SIMULTANEOUS


• Engineering

• Fashion

• Finance

• General

• Legal

• Psychology

• Real estate

• Sales



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d) Fashion

• Codello Seefeld, Fuerstenfeldbruck, presentation of new collection (13

+14 July 2011)

• Mac trousers, presentation of new collection (January 2011)

• Anita unique bodywear, international sales meeting & presentation of new

collection

e) General, sales

• Int. caravaning event, MELVI Meeting, Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski,

with my colleague Marion Schätzle, in May 2012

• Practice-oriented user day: exploiting resources, protecting resources

• Hansgrohe, bathroom event

• burgbad AG, Beilngries, annual meeting, with my colleague Marion

Schätzle

• Sundance Spas (international sales meeting)

SIMULTANEOUS


• Engineering

• Fashion

• Finance

• General

• Legal

• Psychology

• Real estate

• Sales



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f) Legal

• ICC International Court of Arbitration, Arbitration Award

• Arbitration proceedings (biomass power plant, telecommunications act)

g) Market research

• Studio Dr. Rönsberg GmbH, market research

h) Psychology

• 1st International Conference of Multigenerational Psycho-traumatology (Symbiosis and Autonomy) with my colleagues Regina Prokopetz and Iris

Dahlmeier, 26-28 October 2012

SIMULTANEOUS


• Engineering

• Fashion

• Finance

• General

• Legal

• Psychology

• Real estate

• Sales



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i) Real estate (investments)

• ExpoReal International Trade Fair for Property and Investment with my

experienced colleagues Patricia Künzel, Christiane Horn, Marie-Louise

Lehmann (October 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)

• Paramount Group Inc, Investor Update Conference, The Charles Hotel, Munich, with my colleague Susanne Neumair, 11 +12 Sept. 2013

• Patrizia Immobilien AG, Executive Committee meeting,

international management meeting, employee event

with my colleague Marion Riedel (formerly Schätzle)

SIMULTANEOUS


• Engineering

• Fashion

• Finance

• General

• Legal

• Psychology

• Real estate

• Sales



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CONSECUTIVE

INTERPRETING • Presentations

• Lectures

• Civil-law notary

• Court, companies

• Public authorities

• Miscellaneous

2. Consecutive interpreting

a) Public authorities (e.g. health department, prison, police, public

prosecutor, registry office, tax fraud investigation bureau, customs

authorities)

• Registration for marriage

• Prisoners getting visits during pre-trial detention, interrogation

• Weddings

• Medical-psychological tests

• Divorce

b) Court

• Custody pending deportation

• Residency registration

• Drug offences

• Hereditary diseases in a horse

• Company law

• Warrant of arrest

• Commercial law

• Bankruptcy law

• Enforcement of hospital treatment order, forensic commitment, preventive detention

• Medical examination ordered by the court

• Rescission

• Damages

• Complaint with the police



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CONSECUTIVE


• Lectures




• Miscellaneous

b) Court (continued)

• Diminished criminal responsibility

• Falsification of documents

• Road traffic offence

• Medical examination as to fitness for travel (deportation)

• Right of access

• Traffic law

• Rape

• Economic law

c) Civil-law notary

• Formalities for establishing a company

• Renunciation of compulsory compensation in lieu of inheritance for disinherited

spouse/descendent

• Ante-nuptial /post-nupital agreement

• Waiver of inheritance

• Sales contract

• Sales and Purchase Agreement

• Creation of a land charge



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CONSECUTIVE


• Lectures




• Miscellaneous

d) Lectures*

• Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, politician visiting Landshut on 7 February 2012

• Architectural lecture: "Imagining the Centre" artists changing a town, Matt Baker,

Susan Christie, Inverness, in Landshut, 18 March 2009

• Architectural lecture: "Sibiu and the Culture", architect Joana Urdea, Landshut, 22

April 2009

e) Miscellaneous

• Evening event for journalists from the trade press: in a schnapps distillery

• Business negotiations

* For cost reasons (no technical equipment required), the organisers opted for consecutive

interpreting. For the audience it would have been better to offer simultaneous interpreting for those

who do not understand English (the audience had to listen to English first and then German).



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Services are a matter of trust:

Testimonials…

Proven to be trustworthy…

Why not let me prove it to you, too?

1. Testimonials - legal

"Ms. Nikolaus translated a complex contract with lots of legalese and in part technical

annexes from German into English for us in next to no time. Ms. Nikolaus proved to be

very reliable and passed in an extremely satisfactory result at precisely the time

agreed. This is why I can recommend Ms. Nikolaus' translation services without any

reservations. " Dr. Robert Schwinghammer, Head of Regulatory Law, lawyer, Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co.

OHG 27 Nov. 2013

“I came to know Ms. Nikolaus to be an extremely competent, fast and conscientious translator, and

working with Ms. Nikolaus was uncomplicated and a great pleasure. I was particularly impmressed

by how fast Ms. Nikolaus familiarised herself with the matter and how convincing her legalese was.

I look forward to continuing our cooperation!" 27 January 2014 Antonia Gstrein, Senior Regulatory

Counsel, Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

"Extremely reliable/accurate and always delivered on time - very pleasant to work with." Martina Hofstetter, law firm GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, 28 Nov. 2013

“Ms. Nikolaus and I have been cooperating in the field of translation and review

of translations for several years now. I very much like to work with her

because I appreciate her comprehensive knowledge of the subject, the

high standards she applies to her own work, as well as her thorough

work approach. I look forward to completing more projects with her

in the future!" Elke Müller, lawyer-linguist, 19 Dec. 2013

TESTIMONIALS

Legal



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2. Testimonials – conference interpreting:

"Ms. Nikolaus was my simultaneous interpreting colleague at the Paramount Group Inc.

conference. She proved to be an extremely reliable and professional colleague in the

interpreting booth. She was extremely well prepared and her performance in the

interpreting booth was excellent. I look forward to working with her again!" Susanne Neumair, conference interpreter, 2 December 2013

"Melanie Nikolaus is a very good conference interpreter. She came very well prepared

for this difficult topic and has gathered a lot of knowledge on this specialist area. She

was a good and pleasant colleague to work with. Maria-Louise Lehmann, conference interpreter, 29 November 2013

"To whom it may concern,

I have during my years been working with several interpreters in the world.

Ms Nikolaus is by far the best of them. Especially how she is performing the interpretation without

disturbing the sales meetings or trainings and even so when there is several interpreters in the

room.

She is always updated on the topics and has a very high understanding about the messages that

should be transferred and are making sure that nothing is missed out in a very smooth and

appropriate way.

I can truly recommend Ms Nikolaus as interpreter from German to English or the opposite for any

company in the world.

Ronny Lindskog

Managing Director ressort Marketing and Sales Europe

Wiha Werkzeuge GmbH

Previous position:

Manager Automotive systems

Festool GmbH

TESTIMONIALS

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3. Testimonials – general:

"I have been working with Ms. Nikolaus regularly since 1996 and over the years I got to

know here as an extremely professional, experienced and reliable colleague who I

always enjoy working with. It is a matter of course for Ms. Nikolaus to adhere to

deadlines, the quality of her work is excellent. Especially in the fields of interpreting and

law she has gathered a remarkable degree of expertise owing to long years of

experience and continous professional development. I can recommend Ms. Nikolaus'

services without the slightest reservation." 28 Nov. 2013

"I had the opportunity to complete several translation projects and interpreting

assignments together with Ms. Nikolaus and I came to know her to be an extremely

professional, diligent and reliable colleague! The quality of her work is top notch

throughout and she has a professional work approach. I would also like to point out her

pleasant and friendly character. I can warmly recommend Ms. Nikolaus' services and

look forward to our next project together!" 26 Nov. 2013

"I have been working with Melanie Nikolaus successfully for several years and I always

enjoy working with her. I have never experienced any communication issues with her.

She has a professional work approach and her translations from German into English

and from English into German are of first-class quality. She always adhered to

deadlines. I can recommend Ms. Nikolaus without reservations, both as a customer and

as a contractor." 14 July 2010

“We have been working with Ms Nikolaus for several years already and

have always been very pleased with the quality of her service as well

as her adherence to deadlines." 20 January 2014

Daniel Lugner, consultant, Daniel Lugner Consulting

TESTIMONIALS

Translating and interpreting



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Graduating from foreign-language college in Munich

Officially appointed and sworn (Landshut Regional Court)

Specialist area: Business

2nd foreign language French

Translator: 1995 Overall grade: 1.91 *

Interpreter 1996 Overall grade: 2.31

Translator: 1996

Interpreter: 1997

QUALIFICATIONS AND MISC.

*1 is the best grade in Germany

QUALIFICATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS



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On-the-job experience

• Accountant

• Tri-lingual secretary (English, French)

• Patent attorney, Landshut

• Microsoft, Legal Department, Munich

• 2001 to 2005: Lecturing business translations from English into German and

interpreting at the college for tri-lingual secretaries

• Freelance as full-time business and legal interpreter and translator without

interruptions since 1996.

Memberships

• Member of the BDÜ, the German association of professional linguists

• Member of the VbDÜ, the German association of court and public service

translators and interpreters

• Member of the MIT team of interpreters http://www.mit-team.de/

Technical equipment

• CAT tool: Trados Studio 2011,

• Plus all Microsoft Office and other software programmes

common in the industry.

FREELANCE SINCE 1996



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CONTACT DETAILS

Melanie Nikolaus

Translation and interpreting services English-German-English

Birkenstraße 23

84032 Landshut, Germany

Tel.: 0049-871-6877514

Fax: 0049-871-6877493

Mobile: 0049-176-43169190

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.melanie-nikolaus.de

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

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