Compliance, Crisis Management and Investigations; Banking Supervision and Financial Markets Regulation; Corporate.

Sven joined Hengeler Mueller in 2005, and has been partner since 2011.

Co-executive editor of the German corporate law journal Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG).

Sven H. Schneider advises not only banks but also unregulated enterprises and their corporate bodies worldwide on all relevant legal risk areas involved in the structuring, introduction or review of group-wide compliance governance programs, and compliance due diligence projects. He also provides comprehensive advice on internal investigations as well as investigations conducted by German and foreign, primarily Anglo-American, criminal prosecution and regulatory authorities into potential compliance violations. He also advises banks on corporate and regulatory law issues at all stages of operation, from the very beginning and even at the end, in connection with their formation and licensing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions as well as on issues arising in crisis situations (restructurings, insolvencies and liquidations). He has extensive experience and expertise in dealing with the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Sven is ranked as top ten leading practitioner for banking regulatory by JUVE.  Sven is steering committee member or panel member on various international conferences on internal investigations, including Cambridge Forums in the US and the UK as well as the International Bar Association (IBA). Sven has published over one hundred essays, book contributions and commentaries on judgments in the area of corporate and capital market law.

Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Mainz (Dr jur); University of California at Berkeley (LLM); Max-Planck Institute for foreign and international law, Hamburg 2000-01.