Profile

Education

• Goettingen and Freiburg University; Graduation in 1991;
• Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington D.C. (USA); LL.M. (Common Law studies) 1992
• Ph.D. studies with DAAD-Scholarship 1993; Ph.D. thesis on investment banking services, September 1995
• Trainee programme, Deutsche Bank AG, 1995–1997.

Qualifications:

• First State Examination in Law 1992; LL.M. 1993; Ph.D. / Law and Second State Examination 1995 (obligatory State training at Regional Court, law firms, public prosecutor).
• In-house counsel with major international banks in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Luxembourg.
• Admitted to the German Bar since 2005 (Munich, Germany)
• Fachanwalt (Certified Specialist Lawyer) for Banking and Capital Markets Law, 2010
• Insurance Law Specialist qualification / completed specialist course (without case list), 2011
• Legal Arbitration Expert (Schiedsgutachter) for the Munich / Bavarian High Court – Bar Association since 2016
• Fachanwalt (Certified Specialist Lawyer) for International Commercial Law, 2017
• Admitted as an EU-lawyer since 2017 (Paris, France)
• Certification, Adviser on Crypto-Assets and Taxation (WIRE) 2025
• Certification, Executor of Estates and Wills (AGT) 2026

Languages:

German, English and French. Publications and training lectures delivered in German and English.

Experience:

• National and international banking and capital markets law
• Complex Litigation, on behalf of banking board members
• Representation of capital investors, in particular family entrepreneurs, managers and self-employed professionals
• Extensive product and litigation know-how in banking and capital markets law
• Management and in-house counsel experience in the banking sector (management positions)
• Documentation and legal questions relating to financial products such as asset-backed securitisation; bond issuance business; (mezzanine) financing of medium-sized enterprises; compliance questions; risk management and anti-money laundering (AML)
• Questions of banking, investment banking and investment management company law (e.g. cross-border outsourcing)
• Questions of cross-border litigation EU, Switzerland, USA
• Cross-border wealth management (Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
• Investment and advisory liability of German bank branches abroad (e.g. Luxembourg)
• Arbitration; member of the DIS (Germany) since 2014 and of the ASA (Switzerland) since 2024
• EU lawyer advising on German and EU law; international cross-border arbitration issues since 2017.

Community engagement:

• Honorary member of the Committee Controlling Specialist experts for International Commercial law of the Munich / Bavarian Bar Association
• Supporting member of a International Commercial Institute, London
• vbw – Bavarian Business Association: member of the Swabian regional board
• Family Business Association, Former Regional Head; member of commission on Financing and Taxes.