Financial Institutions; Bank and Financial Markets Regulation; Financing; Capital Markets (DCM).

Qualified New York, 1995; Frankfurt, 1998. New York law firm, 1993-94. Joined Hengeler Mueller in 1998, partner since 2002, managing partner 2014-2018.

Membership Officer, IBA Banking Law Committee.

Dirk has a broad practice covering the needs of the financial industry, focusing largely on banking and regulatory aspects of domestic and multi-jurisdictional M&A, restructurings and other transactions, as well as on a wide range of finance and debt capital markets matters.

Universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Hamburg (Dr jur), Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maîtrise en Droit), IEP de Paris (Sciences Po) and Yale Law School (LLM).