Member since Apr '04

Working languages:
English to German
German to English
Spanish to German
Portuguese to German
Spanish to English

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Astrid Elke Witte
German to English
Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright
Sebastian Witte
Responsive with well-rounded knowledge

Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Local time: 20:31 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: German Native in German
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Oct 12 (posted via ProZ.com):  Edited my wife's 13,000-word translation from German into English of an expert opinion (*.pdf) ...more, + 7 other entries »
Total word count: 106215

Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter, Identity Verified Verified member
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Services Translation, Editing/proofreading, MT post-editing, Terminology management, Project management
Expertise
Specializes in:
Law: Contract(s)Law (general)
Law: Patents, Trademarks, CopyrightAccounting
Finance (general)Investment / Securities
Real EstateBusiness/Commerce (general)
Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVsEducation / Pedagogy

All accepted currencies Euro (eur), U. S. dollars (usd)
Project History 18 projects entered    2 positive feedback from outsourcers

Blue Board entries made by this user  91 entries

Payment methods accepted Wire transfer, Skrill, Xoom, TransferWise | Send a payment via ProZ*Pay
Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 2
Translation education Other - Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Experience Years of experience: 21. Registered at ProZ.com: Sep 2003. Became a member: Apr 2004.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s)
Credentials English to German (German Courts, verified)
German to English (German Courts, verified)
Spanish to German (German Courts, verified)
German to Spanish (German Courts, verified)
English to German (Cologne University of Applied Sciences, verified)


Memberships BDÜ
Teamstextpartner
Software ABBYY FineReader OCR, Adobe Acrobat, Frontpage, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Abbyy FineReader 14, MS Office 2016, OpenOffice 3.1, RWS MultiTerm 2022, RWS Trados Studio 2022 SR2, Powerpoint, Trados Studio
Website https://aswitte.de/de
Events and training
Professional practices Sebastian Witte endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines.
Bio

42 new sizeable RWS MultiTerm termbases created in March 2019. Some 2,000 entries added across 16 termbases in November 2019. Some 4,350 termbase entries added in April 2020. New taxation and customs duties termbase created in October 2020, 2750 entries. About 2,800 termbase entries added across various termbases - May 2021. Major multilingual termbase update in September 2021, among other subjects in the field of logistics. My CV contains a watermark. Paying by PayPal is available upon request. Informationen in Deutsch über uns finden Sie hier https://deu.proz.com/profile/60654

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-> Gain from our optimized, internal processes while still enjoying the ease of communicating directly with the actual service provider.

-> Focused on finding feasible solutions

-> Well-versed in all the main translation techniques that they teach and share, both face-to-face and online.

-> An efficient communicator: The technical facilities for this exist, both when in the office, where I can be found most of the time, such as running Outlook 2016, and when out of the office. There is also an office phone number, etc. 

-> Proper time management skills

-> A well-traveled individual (Britain, United States, Canada, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria) with knowledge of various spheres of life, appropriate research skills and an ability to access new subject matter, as long as it falls within our working fields

-> Confidential treatment of data and documents handed over to us is guaranteed

-> Proper editing and proofreading ethics, i.e. neither putting myself forward unnecessarily and thus changing too much nor doing the work too superficially, i.e. editing the translation too lightly

-> Goal is to combine an eye for detail and formal aspects on the one hand with achieving clarity, coherence and a number of other criteria of good text quality in the target language plus accuracy of content on the other hand 

-> Familiar with the concept of linguistic register and able to preserve it

-> Able to translate and edit consistently where it is advisable or if we have been instructed to do so 

-> Generally able to follow job instructions (if any)

-> Resourceful and imaginative

-> My wife, Astrid, is capable of formatting most non-editable or editable file formats we can handle (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and, subject to restrictions, possibly some of the main image formats like JPEG - if you can make a PDF file instead, however, this would always be preferable-, or by prior arrangement also posted documents) so that they look neat and very or, as the case may be, even most similar to the source document.

-> Other file formats we can handle through Trados Studio, mostly on a 
'formatting-in/formatting-out' sort of basis, for lack of owning the respective software, include Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe InCopy and QuarkXpress files - in addition, we can process XHTML 1.1, HTML 4 and HTML 5 files

-> Able to process RWS Trados Studio 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022 packages, SDLXLIFFs, XLFs (by arrangement), MQXLIFFs (by arrangement)  

->  Tax-compliant invoicing in German or English. We accept credit notes from our customers on request.

-> Customer base includes many translation agencies, law and IP law firms, companies from various industries, public authorities and institutions, a small number of banks, savings banks and insurance companies, private customers and to a lesser extent also colleagues

-> Able to translate into British English (native speaker version) or otherwise, American English <-

-> Able to translate into German/Germany or otherwise, upon request, able to arrange for a translation into Austrian High German (native speaker version) or Swiss High German (native speaker version) that meets our quality assurance requirements by means of a network of tried and tested colleagues

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Graduate Translator with 4 years of studies 
Main languages: English and Spanish 
Focus of studies: business, legal, engineering transl. 
Third language: Portuguese 

Court-certified translator for English and Spanish (Hamm Higher Regional Court/OLG Hamm), i.e. in a position to certify the accuracy and completeness of transl. and editing jobs (text comparison) from these languages into German and vice versa as well as between Spanish and English.

On-site job in 2003 (not a permanent position) with a medium-sized company branching out into the UK market. Successfully translated Memoranda and Articles of Association from English into German.

Able to respond to your messages by way of precise communication, and, if need be, also at reasonably short notice. If availability calendar is on orange or red, this might indicate we are either out of office/traveling or are working at capacity. For contact details, see our website and our resumes above. 

We will make it sound natural, using appropriate style.

In-depth knowledge in a limited number of related specialist fields acquired through reading technical literature, quality newspapers' business and financial sections as well as attending professional training.

Ample experience in handling intellectual property (IP), legal and financial sector documents.
Some experience in accounting translation (some 235,000 words translated and another 150,000 edited), made up for by a strong focus on training and reading up on the field. The above studies included a year-long introduction to financial accounting in British English.

95% of GER to ENG jobs handled involve mutual quality assurance practices together with my wife Astrid Elke, holder of a DipTrans CIoL (equivalent to a Master's as per said Chartered Institute of Linguists) in German to English, an English speaker originally from the UK with long-standing residence in Germany and a former legal secretary/translator at a major German law and IP law firm (second pair of eyes, with me editing her translations and her finally monolingually proofreading the result). 14 years of collaboration to provide you with the best possible result. Attention to detail. All translations are thoroughly edited.

On-time completion.

Experienced user of RWS Trados Studio 2022 and MultiTerm 2022. Our own, extensive, subject matter-specific MultiTerm termbases help us ensure precision in translation and, where advisable or if we have been instructed accordingly, terminological consistency.

Attendee of the 7th ProZ.com Conference - Prague 2010.

Recent projects:
A wide range of intellectual property documentation including patent applications and specifications
Bank guarantee (Bankbürgschaft)
Statement of claim (Klageschrift)
Mortgage (Hypothek)
Real property sales contract (Grundstückskaufvertrag)
Terms and Conditions regarding Registered Covered Bond (Bedingungen für Namenspfandbrief)
Audit firm's report on the auditing of the Financial Statements and the Management Report (Bericht einer WP-Gesellschaft über die Prüfung des Jahresabschlusses und des Lageberichts) and other financial reporting documents
Shareholders’ agreement (Gesellschaftsvertrag)
Investment outlook (Investmentausblick)
Extract from the commercial register (HR-Auszug) and so forth

Earlier jobs:
Technical text on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Fachtext zur Finanzmarktrichtlinie)
Numerous loans against borrower’s note (Schuldscheindarlehen)
Financial translation on electronic trading (Vereinbarung zum elektronischen Wertpapierhandel)
Securities selling restrictions (Wertpapierverkaufsbeschränkungen)
Certified translations of notarized powers of attorney (notarielle Vollmachten)
Abstract of title/extract from the land register (Grundbuchauszug)
Agreement on transfer by way of security (Sicherungsübereignung)
Agreement on electronic trading of financial futures (Vereinbarung zum elektronischen Handel von Terminkontrakten auf Finanzinstrumente)
Notarized Deed of Sale including transfer of a mortgage (Notarieller Kaufvertrag einschließlich Übertragung einer Hypothek)
Memorandum and Articles of Association (Satzung betreffend das Außenverhältnis sowie Innenverhältnis einer brit. Kapitalgesellschaft)
Notarized declaration of new development (i.e. Deed for registration of a new building in the land register/declaración de obra nueva/notarielle Neubauerklärung)
Articles of Association of a fund management company (sog. "Satzung betreffend das Innenverhältnis" (s.o.) einer Fondsgesellschaft)

The résumé accessible on this profile has been thoroughly revised for a better overview of the experience gathered (including interpreting jobs), classifying the latter by fields and in the case of law, also the individual legal fields covered. An English one is available upon request.

We look forward to being of service to you.

This user has earned KudoZ points by helping other translators with PRO-level terms. Click point total(s) to see term translations provided.

Total pts earned: 2156
PRO-level pts: 2152


Top languages (PRO)
English to German869
Spanish to German503
German to English418
Portuguese to German187
German to Spanish163
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Top general fields (PRO)
Bus/Financial986
Law/Patents838
Other211
Tech/Engineering49
Social Sciences44
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Top specific fields (PRO)
Law: Contract(s)386
Law (general)369
Investment / Securities259
Accounting257
Finance (general)217
Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs173
Business/Commerce (general)80
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