SMP

Christian advises fund managers and investors in the field of alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, debt, real estate, crypto) on investment-regulatory and corporate-law matters. Moreover, he provides advice and support to financial-services companies in the context of license proceedings before Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and on matters under the German Banking Act (KWG) and the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG).

Qualifications

  • German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwalt)
  • Ph.D. in law (Dr. iur.) (Kiel University)

Languages

  • German
  • English

Education and Career

Christian studied law in Kiel. His practical legal training at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court included a stint with Sullivan & Cromwell in Frankfurt/Main. Prior to joining SMP, Christian was an attorney with a major German law firm in Hamburg.

  • Virtual employee stock-ownership plans, leaver and vesting clauses, and the German General Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz – AGG)
    DB 2019, pp. 1566 et seqq. [in German]
  • Leaver, vesting und shoot-out clauses – An examination regarding the legal limitations of contractual clauses limiting compensation and of contractual exclusion clauses
    Dissertation, 2018 [in German]
  • The legal position of the ostensible partner post-downstream merger
    GmbHR 2018, pp. 840 et seqq. (together with Benjamin Westermann) [in German]
  • Income-tax regime applicable to profits from crypto currency acquisitions, sales and exchanges
    DStZ 2018, pp. 301 et seqq. (together with Benjamin Westermann) [in German]
  • The German Act for Improving Legal Enforcement Regarding Social Networks — an unconstitutional rush job
    NVwZ 2017, pp. 1721 et seqq. (together with Fiete Kalscheuer) [in German]
  • Compatibility of the new rules on delisting with the free movement of capital under European law
    BKR 2017, pp. 409 et seqq. (together with Benjamin Westermann) [in German]
  • The "merging away" of shares in the context of unclear corporate ownership structures
    GmbHR 2017, pp. 626 et seqq. (together with Benjamin Westermann) [in German]
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