Banking & Capital Markets Law:

• Banking contract law and loan securities
• Loan law
• Payment transactions (PSD2)
• Investment law and investment advice
• Securities trading
• Alternative Investment Funds (AIF)
• Pooling agreements
• Investment requirements of institutional investors (AnlV)

Factoring & trade finance:

• Advising institutions and investors on the drafting of customer and syndicate agreements for institutions and investors
• Genuine and non-genuine factoring
• Supply Chain Finance
• New product processes (NPP) and digitalization of financial products
• Development of Fintech platform concepts
• Export factoring
• Legal issues of international assignment of receivables
• Models for capital market-based refinancing

Banking supervision & regulatory requirements:

• ‍‍Advice on legally compliant implementation of regulatory requirements
• Licensing procedures and owner control according to the German Banking Act (KWG), EU passporting and notification procedures
• Establishment of proper business organization
• Appointment of managing directors
• Structuring of risk management in accordance with MaRisk
• Risk-bearing capacity (RBC)
• Outsourcing management
• Notification and reporting obligations
• Representation vis-à-vis BAFIN and Bundesbank as well as audit support

MaRisk and money laundering compliance:

• ‍‍Implementation and maintenance of customized compliance management systems (CMS)
• Establishment of money laundering risk management
• Risk analysis
• Risk-based KYC processes
• Safeguarding measures
• Structuring of anti-fraud management
• Risk mitigating processes to avert damage potential and liability risks
• Dealing with suspicious cases
• Corporate governance codes
• Poison policy
• Third-party policy
• Structure of MaRisk compliance
• Monitoring and control activities
• Introduction of Financial Sanctions Compliance (FSE)
• Sanctions and embargo regulations
• Export control and reputation protection
• Assumption of MaRisk and GwG compliance officer functions as well as the central office in accordance with § 25h of the German Banking Act (KWG)
• Reporting
• Establishment of whistleblower systems (whisleblowing unit)
• Implementation of protected reporting channels

‍Corporate Finance:

• ‍‍Strategies for capital structures in corporate finance
• Mezzanine capital
• Convertible bonds
• Fiduciary limited liability company
• cash pooling
• Advice on the financial structuring of corporate transactions
• Investment companies
• Structuring of investment decisions
• Advice on growth financing
• Support for private equity

Digital securities:

• ‍‍Structuring and issuing digital securities (security token offering (STO) using blockchain-based technologies), including information and prospectus obligations

Seminars & in-house trainings:

• ‍‍Trainings for business managers and supervisory bodies of credit institutions and financial service providers in accordance with sections 25c, 25d of the German Banking Act (KWG), on financing models and fraud risks
• Industry-specific money laundering and compliance training for employees and managers
• Seminars on foreign trade

Recovery of receivables:

• ‍‍Receivables management and litigation in disputes with customers and debtors
• Negotiations with insolvency administrators
• Portfolio sales