CMS

Finance

Partner, Head of FIS, Capital Markets and Structured Finance practice in Romania

Cristina Reichmann is a partner in the Finance department at CMS Romania and Head of Capital Markets, FIS and Structured Finance practice in Romania. She has over 20 years of experience advising on capital markets, banking and finance, as well as on financial instruments and services.

Cristina’s expertise includes all types of financing through capital markets, equity and debt offerings, including MREL bonds, Tier 2 bonds, IPOs/SPOs on the local or international markets, takeover public offerings and squeeze-out procedures, acquisition and disposal of financial instruments (on regulated markets, as well as through ATS/MTF and OTC), investment funds, alternative investment funds, and asset-management companies.

In addition, Cristina has experience in regulatory aspects in relation to the operation of financial markets and operators, European directives and regulations on capital markets and derivatives.

She regularly advises on regulatory and compliance matters, mainly triggered by the application of EU Regulations (e.g. MIFID2, changes to Prospectus Regulation, EMIR), by Romanian residents participating in multi-jurisdiction investments and/or delivery of financial services, as well as by the regulations implementing new trading concepts / mechanisms under Romanian law (e.g. global accounts, trading outside the regulated markets, derivatives trading, links of the local depositary and settlement systems to large international settlement systems for trading Romanian originated securities).

Cristina is a member of the Arbitration Chamber of the BSE and she was involved in the task-force of the Financial Supervisory Authority for the implementation of MIFID II, EMIR, changes to local law related to EU Prospectus legislation, as well as in drafting the Romanian legislation regarding covered bonds and securitization law.

Romanian, English, French

Bucharest Bar Association

2011 - MBA, University of Wales, UK 1998 - Law, University of Bucharest, Bucharest 1987 - Foreign Languages and Literature, Law Faculty, University of Bucharest, Bucharest