Head of Europe Structured Finance, Banking and Finance

Dr. Arne Klüwer is a partner in the Frankfurt office and Head of Banking and Finance Germany as well as Head of Structured Finance Europe. He provides legal advice on a broad range of transactions from the structuring and implementation of a variety of structured finance transactions over workouts and complex restructurings to loan trading transactions.

Arne’s experience includes advising market participants in various roles and functions in the context of arranging and securitisation of loans (including CMBS), over the securitisation of trade and consumer receivables, inflation-indexed hereditary building rights and to the structuring and implementation of complex portfolio transactions, including advising various transaction parties on the sale, the acquisition and the financing of NPLs and other non-core assets to various restructurings and debt recovery advice (in and outside of insolvency proceedings). In this context, Arne has also advised on various bank rescue measures during and following the financial crisis of 2007/2008 covering total asset volumes well in excess of €50 billion.

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2001, Dr. iur.

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2000

Legal clerkship, 1997-2000, Hamburg

Duke University School of Law, 1997, LL.M.

Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, 1996, Legal studies

University of Konstanz, 1993, Legal studies