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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 is a lecturer for capital markets law at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and a frequent author of publications on capital markets law topics and new and emerging developments in this field. Stefan frequently speaks at industry conferences and gives training sessions for clients and market participants.

Ulf Kreppel's practice focuses on cross-border securitizations and structured finance transactions. Amongst his clients are international financial institutions, investment firms and so-called "alternative capital providers".
With more than 20 years of product experience, Mr. Kreppel has extensive expertise in the structuring and execution of structured finance transactions. This includes public and private securitizations, asset-based lending and covered bond transactions, structured as stand-alone term transactions as well as asset-backed notes programs. Mr. Kreppel advises on a variety of asset classes, such as auto loans and leases, consumer credits, trade receivables and real estate loans. He also acts as program counsel for several European-based asset-backed commercial paper programs.
Mr. Kreppel has advised on a number of innovative and market-first transactions, including the purely blockchain-based issuance and settlement of asset-backed commercial paper. In addition, he regularly advises on regulatory aspects in financing transactions, e.g. on so-called "simple, transparent and standardized" (STS) securitizations as well as questions regarding the European Securitization Regulation. Mr. Kreppel has coauthored several articles on the legal risks and structural solutions for securitizations.

Michael Osswald is the Managing Director of STS Verification International GmbH (“SVI”), a third party verifier providing STS verifications of ABCP, non-ABCP and synthetic securitisations under the European securitisation regulation. He joined SVI in February 2019 and oversees all verification and related corporate activities of SVI across Europe. Michael has extensive securitisation experience both as investor and the origination and structuring of term ABS, ABCP and synthetic transactions, which he gained from 1998 at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart and London and subsequently at ABN AMRO Bank in Frankfurt as part of the European ABS team. In 2009, he moved to the transportation finance division of KfW IPEX-Bank and was, prior to joining SVI, Senior Credit Officer at Erste Abwicklungsanstalt in Düsseldorf, where he was responsible for the asset securitisation, infrastructure, aviation and shipping sub-portfolios. Michael holds a degree in business administration from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

András Vajda is the CEO and co-Founder of iconicchain, providing regulatory compliance automation solutions for highly regulated markets, based on private blockchain solutions. András has over 20+ years executive, technology leadership & customer facing experience in the Financial and Telecom sector, having successfully led the execution of 10+ securitization, blockchain and regulatory compliance projects with multi-national banking and regulatory customers. Prior to iconicchain, he has led multiple successful programs for Ericsson, all established high-growth, high-profit businesses. András holds an MSc in Distributed Systems and is the author of several articles and a book.

Philipp von Websky (trained lawyer) is a Director and has been with Deloitte since 2001. In the Service Line Credit & Securitisation Advisory he is responsible for projects pertaining to the loan business and loan/credit transactions (credit treasury, securitisation, asset based finance). His work focuses on Advisory, Assuring Transaction Party und Audit/Due Diligence. He co-heads the blockchain-in-structured-finance initiative of Deloitte Germany. For details: www.deloitte.com/de/csa