Stefan is a competition and regulatory specialist. He has extensive experience in damages actions (including collective proceedings) and in all areas of economic regulation, including in the telecoms, energy and financial services sectors. He also regularly advices on data protection, information law and the interception of communications.
Before coming to the Bar, Stefan was an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs in London, responsible for the coverage of European telecom and IT services companies in the firm’s Global Investment Research division. He has a wealth of industry experience in telecoms, IT and financial services, and a solid grounding in finance and economics, which makes his experience a particular asset in matters involving extensive economic argument, or cases of a technical or complex nature.
Stefan was called to the Bar in 2013, and joined Chambers after the successful completion of his pupillage in 2014.
In 2019, Stefan was admitted as a Rechtsanwalt to the Dusseldorf Bar in Germany, having passed the Eignungsprüfung für die Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft (qualified lawyers transfer test) in December 2018.
Stefan is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder and obtained a master’s degree in finance from the University of Cambridge, where he has also taught and supervised.
During his training for the Bar, Stefan was a Middle Temple Queen Mother Scholar and received a Bar European Group Phoenicia Scholarship. Prior to that, as a financial analyst, Stefan received several industry awards, including from Institutional Investor (and II’s Alpha) and Les Echos/Thomson Reuters.
German (fluent), Dutch (good), French (intermediate).
Bar European Group, the Commercial Bar Association and the CFA Institute.
King's College London (BSc); University of Cambridge (MPhil); CFA.