Financial Services Regulation
Noerr’s Financial Services Regulation practice group is the predestined contact when it comes to financial market regulation issues.
Law Firm of the Year JUVE Award 2021
Law Firm of the Year for Banking and Finance Law JUVE Award 2021
Sector-specific advisory approach for our clients
We advise national or international financial institutions, insurers, asset managers, funds, FinTechs, InsurTechs and companies in the real economy on all financial regulatory issues.
Our services
Financial regulatory compliance
- Advising on ongoing regulatory requirements, in particular Basel III/IV and CRD IV/CRR, MaRisk, ESG, MiFID II, Solvency II, IDD, PSD2, the Money Laundering Act, sanctions and embargo law, German Investment Act, Remuneration Ordinance for Institutions, EMIR and stock exchange law
- Examining the need to obtain permission for innovative business models and coordinating with national and European supervisory authorities such as German financial regulator BaFin, Deutsche Bundesbank, EBA, ESMA and ECB
- Representing clients in administrative proceedings and administrative court proceedings involving the German financial regulator BaFin
- Carrying out special audits according to the German Banking Act and the German Securities Trading Act
- Advising on risk management, e.g. in the context of outsourcing
Transactions and projects
- Assisting in the establishment of institutions and insurers (licensing procedures) as well as EEA branches and representative offices, establishing distribution structures
- Advising on the acquisition, sale or conversion of institutions and insurers (including ownership control procedures)
- Handling portfolio transactions (NPL and portfolio transfers)
- Developing business models and products in line with new regulatory requirements
- Designing remuneration systems and corporate governance of institutions
- Advising on fund structuring, implementation and fund due diligence
- Restructuring and resolution planning according to the SAG
- Commercial banking (drafting of rules and regulations for banking contracts)
Digitalisation
- Developing digital business models and related contracts (e.g. for fintechs and insurtechs)
- Advising on product development (digital platforms, crypto assets, blockchains)
- Advising FinTechs and banks on their mutual cooperation (e.g. outsourcing and white labelling models)
- Implementing data protection and IT security requirements
- Advising on regulatory requirements for the digitalisation of business organisation and the value chain
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“Banks, payment service providers and companies rely on Noerr’s comprehensive expertise.”
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“The cooperation with the practice area is always characterised by very obliging friendliness and is characterised by an enormously high professional level not previously experienced at other firms.”
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