Dr. Martin Freytag is an associate at GSK Stockmann in Munich. He specializes advising banks, financial service providers, investment fund managers and institutional investors on financial and insurance regulatory issues; setting-up and structuring of financial instruments such as investment funds, securitisations, bonds, structured finance and mezzanine financing; capital market and stock exchange law as well as advising on electronic payment services. He is admitted to the Bar in Germany (2022) and speaks German, English and French. He is a member of the Bankrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V. and publishes regularly.
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Dr Martin Geiger joined Hengeler Mueller in 1995 and became a partner in 2000.
He has a long-standing experience of advising banks, private equity funds and corporate clients on a broad range of complex transactions including structured financings, refinancing with commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), and real estate financings
His recent work includes the advice of a Swedish truck manufacturer on the secuiritisation of UK lease receivables, a German leasing company on the securitisation of French lease receivables and a German bank on the purchase of lease receivables in several European countries.
Martin Geiger studied law at the University of Munich and the University of Michigan Law School. He is regularly included in the most prestigious rankings on the German law firm market and described as a "Leading Advisor" in Structured Finance.
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Stefan advises on a wide range of capital markets transactions with a focus on structured finance and debt capital markets.
He specialises in advising on securitisations – covering true sale, secured loan and synthetic structures across a broad range of asset classes – and other structured finance and derivatives transactions including repackagings, secured notes, strategic equity and non-performing loan transactions. Another focus of his practice are bond transactions including Pfandbriefe, covered bonds, structured notes, hybrid and corporate bonds and bond restructurings. Stefan has also broad experience in advising on all related regulatory and insolvency law matters. He is widely recognised as one of Germany’s leading capital markets lawyers.
Stefan works with major international clients, including banks, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates, originators and investors, across jurisdictions and in multiple sectors, including in particular financial services, real estate, infrastructure, energy and alternative investments.
He specialises in advising on securitisations – covering true sale, secured loan and synthetic structures across a broad range of asset classes – and other structured finance and derivatives transactions including repackagings, secured notes, strategic equity and non-performing loan transactions. Another focus of his practice are bond transactions including Pfandbriefe, covered bonds, structured notes, hybrid and corporate bonds and bond restructurings. Stefan has also broad experience in advising on all related regulatory and insolvency law matters. He is widely recognised as one of Germany’s leading capital markets lawyers.
Stefan works with major international clients, including banks, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates, originators and investors, across jurisdictions and in multiple sectors, including in particular financial services, real estate, infrastructure, energy and alternative investments.
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Dr Arne Klüwer works as a Partner for Dentons. He heads the German banking and finance practice and the structured finance practice in continental Europe. He specialises in structured finance and restructurings with a special focus on securitisation and factoring, asset-based lending, innovative financings in the area of renewable energies as well as loan trading transactions. This includes wide-ranging experience in the securitisation of receivables originating from all traditional as well as more exotic asset classes, including trade receivables, secured and unsecured loans with various maturity profiles, lease receivables, hereditary building rights, consumer loans and telephone receivables. A presently especially relevant experience is his experience acting for an arranger and investor in the context of the structuring over the workout to the insolvency and the effects on a transaction for the securitisation of solar lease receivables originating from long-rental contracts over privately operated solar power plant installations in transactions with granular portfolios across all of Germany.
In addition, he has a strong focus on advising lenders and creditors in workout situations and in the context of restructuring distressed debt. His doctorate focusses on a comparative legal analysis of the legal framework for securitisations in the USA and in Germany and is one of the first academic writings on the subject of securitisation in Germany.
In addition, he has a strong focus on advising lenders and creditors in workout situations and in the context of restructuring distressed debt. His doctorate focusses on a comparative legal analysis of the legal framework for securitisations in the USA and in Germany and is one of the first academic writings on the subject of securitisation in Germany.
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Barbara has specialised experience in debt capital markets products with a focus on asset-based structured finance, including, in particular, ESG transactions, project bonds, true sale and synthetic securitisation and other secured financing of various asset classes as well as derivatives. She is further specialised in portfolio and NPL transactions and their (re-) financing (in particular via structured finance solutions). Barbara is – as a former consumer litigator – an expert on German consumer credit law and leasing aspects.
She is rated as one of the most prominent female lawyers in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2023, as one of the leading lawyers in the area of structured finance by JUVE 2023/24 and as one of the "Next Generation Partners" in Legal 500 Germany 2023 in the area of structured finance and securitisation. She is further listed as "Highly regarded" in IFLR1000 2023 in the field of structured finance and securitisation and Chambers Europe 2023 ranks her as one of the recommended lawyers for structured finance in Germany.
She is rated as one of the most prominent female lawyers in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2023, as one of the leading lawyers in the area of structured finance by JUVE 2023/24 and as one of the "Next Generation Partners" in Legal 500 Germany 2023 in the area of structured finance and securitisation. She is further listed as "Highly regarded" in IFLR1000 2023 in the field of structured finance and securitisation and Chambers Europe 2023 ranks her as one of the recommended lawyers for structured finance in Germany.
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Sebastian Oebels advises national and international companies on German and international securitisations and other structured finance transactions. He focuses on all legal aspects of debt capital markets products including asset backed securitisations (STS and non-STS) as well as debt issuance programmes. In particular, Sebastian has gathered wide experience in advising banks, issuers and originators on auto loans/leases and trade receivables securitisations. Sebastian studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main and works in the structured finance practice since 2015.
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