Our banking and finance experts advise domestic and foreign banks, financial services institutions, and enterprises of every size in all relevant issues of law. In cross-border matters, we cooperate with first-class law firms and tax adivsors in and outside Europe. Our lawyers and certified tax advisors have longstanding consulting experience in major international law firms, some with professional experience in the operational banking business and as credit institutions’ in-house lawyers.

The scope of our consulting services encompasses all fields of public and private banking and capital market law. This includes rendering advice on founding and taking over banks and financial services institutions; expanding existing bank- or financial services licenses; supervisory law questions such as outsourcing; cross-border teleprocessing; banking confidentiality requirements, anti-money laundering laws as well as the implementation of new European directives or minimum standards of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin); the development and implementation of contracts governing new products, including structured loans, derivates and asset backed securities (ABS).

We also join forces with our tax experts to develop tax-optimized products, and coordinate with our clients’ product and marketing departments to draw up and revise customer documentation. We support non-banks in banking and capital market-related transactions such as IPOs, bond issues, loans, mezzanine -, project- and acquisition financing, and the conclusion of OTC derivatives.