Mr Woldemar Häring | White & Case LLP

Presentation: The German Draft CRD VI Implementing Act (the „BRUBEG“)

Education/professional career:

• Partner at White & Case LLP specializing in banking supervision and securities law
• Worked at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) from 2011 to 2019
• Participated in various EBA and ESMA working groups on the development of technical implementation standards and guidelines

Main topics:

• Advice on regulatory requirements, licensing and ownership control procedures
• Advice on capital and liquidity requirements under CRR and IFR
• MiFID advice: supporting clients in the provision of investment services and implementation of distribution processes
• Support for payment service providers and e-money institutions
• Advice for crypto-asset service providers and issuers of crypto-assets on regulatory requirements under MiCAR

Further information about Mr Woldemar Häring can be found here and on the page of our expert advisory board.

Dr Alexander Behrens | A&O Shearman LLP

Presentation: Provision of Cross-Border Banking Services to German Customers by non-EU Banks

Education/professional career:

• Partner at A&O Shearman
• Head of the German regulatory practice
• Advising banks, securities institutions and payment institutions

Main topics:

• German and European banking and securities supervision law
• Banking union law (SSM and SRM)
• Payment services law
• ESG
• Crypto assets/digital finance
• Conducting internal investigations in the financial sector

Further information on Dr Alexander Behrens can be found here and on the website of our expert advisory board.

Dr Andreas Dehio | Linklaters LLP

Presentation: The Regulation of Third Country Branches (TCB)

Education/professional career:

• Since 2017: Partner at Linklaters
• Joined Linklaters in the Financial Regulation Group in 2010
• Obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg
• Research stay at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Studied law at the University of Saarland and the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Main topics:

• Banking regulatory law, investment law, securities trading law and regulatory investigations
• Particular focus in advising on issues relating to business organisation, internal processes and the strategic management of institutions against the background of regulatory law
• Advising projects and representing clients in proceedings before German and European supervisory authorities

Further information on Dr Andreas Dehio can be found here and on the website of our expert advisory board.

Mr Till-Christopher Otto | Annerton

Presentation: Fit & Proper: New Requirements for Executives and Key Function Holders under CRD VI

Education/professional career:

• Since 2020: Lawyer, Annerton Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
• 2015–2020: Lawyer, Taylor Wessing Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbB
• 2014–2015: Research associate, Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
• 2013–2015: Legal traineeship at Wiesbaden District Court
• 2005–2012: Law degree at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Main topics:

• Banking law
• Banking supervisory law
• Financial services law
• Anti-money laundering law
• Investment supervisory law
• Crypto & digitisation
• Outsourcing
• Payment services law
• Payment services supervision law

Further information on Mr Till-Christopher Otto can be found here.

Mrs Sonja Denner | Deutsche Bundesbank

Presentation: The Status Quo of ESG Risk Management

Education/professional career:

• DG Banking and Financial Supervision, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015 – 2023: Senior Expert, Strategic Office SSM Supervision / JST Coordination
  • Since 2023: Senior Expert, Division Innovation and Evaluation, Section Sustainability
• Trainee, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
• Research Assistant, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
• Diploma in Economics, University of Bayreuth

Main topics:

• Since 2020: Sustainability Risks (focus on Pillar 2)
• Supervision of Significant Institutions in the SSM