Nils Lahrmann

nils«at»nl-translations.com
Nationality Swedish

Languages German (mother tongue), English, French

Fields of expertise

1) Finance, banking, accounting, investment banking, related legal
2) Advertising, Marketing, Copywriting
3) IT, SAP, Software localization
4) climatology/meteorology, Chemistry
5) environmental technologies
6) photography (traditional and digital)

Services
Translation, revision, interpretation (French-German), copy writing, DTP (FrameMaker, PageMaker)

Environment
PC: MS Windows 7™; MS Office™, memoQ™, DéjàVu X2™, SDLX™, SDL Trados 2007™
Adobe FrameMaker™, PageMaker™, GoLive™, Acrobat™, CS4 Masters Collection…
My personal TermBase in the finance field counts
roughly 34’500 entries. My personal finance Translation Memory
consists today of about 720’000 segments.

Education
1992 MA (Magister Artium)
at the University of Göttingen, Germany
with German language and literature
and with Philosophy (cum laude)

Experience
2000 to today Translations and editing as freelancer

1997-2000 Translations and editing as freelancer for several translation firms
in Switzerland, France, United States, Ireland, Luxemburg etc.

1997 Publishing of the first book: “Bewerben im Ausland”
(How to find a job abroad) with CC-Verlag, Hamburg, Germany,
ISBN 3-923930-13-5

1992-1993 Copywriting as freelancer for
Stark Promotions, Bremen, Germany,
and for Jung van Matt, Hamburg, Germany
First translations

Reference examples:

For F&C Asset Management Plc., EN-GB into DE-DE translation, “Corporate Brochure”, finace/website content.

For Abbey/Willis Group Holdings Ltd., EN-GB into DE-DE translation, “International Sharesave Plan”: forms, terms and conditions, legal/finance.

For Barclays, EN-US into DE-DE translation, financial marketing web content (HTML, XHTML, XML), about 2400 words.

For Goldman Sachs (New York), copy writing and EN-US into DE-DE translation for a pan-European recruitment brochure, about 5000 words – marketing, advertising, finance.

For Foncière des Régions, FR-FR into DE-DE revision, IPO text: finance/legal

For WestAM Compass Fund, EN-GB into DE-DE translation, “Simplified prospectus”: finance/legal

For DAB Bank AG, FR-LU into DE-DE translation, “Contrat de Distribution”: finance/legal

For Morgan Stanley SICAV, EN-US into DE-DE translation, funds reports, finance.

For Leman Brothers, EN-US into DE-DE revision, Global Strategy and Market Outlook articles, finance.

For Oracle, EN-US into DE-DE translation, “Sourcing/Material Requirements Planing”: software/database localisation, recources management.

For Advanced Medical Optics, EN-GB into DE-DE translation, “Business Expense Policy”: internal communication.

For Allianz (Assurance), translation of the 2004 annual report from English into German; finance, accounting, assurance, about 50000 words.

For Cysco Systems, translation of error messages, instructions and user guide parts of B2B and supply chain software; about 15000 words, IT, business..

For Barclays, translation of an e-learning accounting course; about 30'000 words, EN(GB) to DE(DE), finance, marketing, accounting, banking.

For Eastman Chemical Company, translation of the annual reports 2002 and 2003 (in accordance with GAAP). About 80,000 words, accounting, financial statements.

For UBS Warburg (London, New York), translations of company equity analysis, foreign exchange market wraps, country market summaries, bond market reports, market strategy letters. This was on a daily basis for about three years with a monthly turnaround of roughly 20,000 words – finance, investment banking.

For John Deere Bank legal from French to German “Registre de Commerce et de Sociétés” – legal, finance

For Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt), pioneer translation of “1999 ISDA Credit Derivates Definitions – Master Agreement” (International Swaps And Derivates Association, Inc.). Together with a colleague I translated about 35’000 words – legal, finance.

For State Street International (New York, Paris), translation of the balance sheet and annual report from French to German, about 45’000 words – accounting, finance.

For Clearstream Banking (Frankfurt, Luxembourg), translation of the manual for the cut over and introduction of the SAP (German software company) Human Resources System, 40’000 words – marketing, banking.

For Banque Générale de Luxembourg, FR-LU into DE-DE translation of the "Bienvenue sur le site du rapport annuel", investors and customers information introducing text, 700 words, copy writing.

For a local enterprise in Luxemburg, FR-LU into DE-DE translation of a balloon tours brochure, copy writing.

For the Fortis group, FR-LU into DE-DE translation of "Ouverture d’un Business Centre Trèves/Sarrebruck dans le cadre des International Customer Days de Fortis Banque" and a subsequent customer invitation as well of a Callable fund Step-up Note, marketing/copy writing.

For Arcelor (engineering/construction software), FR-FR into DE-DE translation of a unique selling proposition website text, marketing/copy writing.

For Fortis Luxemburg, FR-LU into DE-DE translation of a folder and different mailings for clients to subscript for assurances: "Assurance prévoyance vieillesse : Une nécessité liée à des avantages fiscaux substantiels", marketing/finance/legal.

For StepStone (HR service group) I found the French slogan : "Dépasse ton future !" (which they unfortunately changed meanwhile..., would correspond to "overtake your future!" or something like that), copy writing.

For Stark Promotions, DE copywriting and brainstorming for a resellers brochure and a tv-spot for "Blue System" (young peaple jeans ware).

For BMW, DE copywriting for an automotive end customer brochure: "BMW 5er — Präsenz durch Dynamik und Freude am Fahren" (1996).

For Laboratoire Garnier, DE master concept and copywriting for a woman’s magazine advertising: Ambre Solaire.

For Stark Promotions, German into English translation (my first small translation in my career, 1992) for a ambitious design furniture manufacturer in Bremen (Germany), copy writing.

Further: For Lehman Brothers equity research reports, for EnBW International Finance B.V. a bond purchase agreement, for Arthur Andersen (world wide auditor) parts of an annual report, for J.P.Morgan fund reports (on a monthly basis)…

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• Déjà Vu
• MemoQ
• OmegaT
• Open Language Tools
• PageMaker
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• My personal TermBase in the finance field counts roughly 36’500 entries. My personal finance Translation memory consists today of about 750’000 segments.