Linklaters follows an interdisciplinary approach and covers various financial technology issues, including capital markets and acquisition transactions, data protection and cyber security, digitisation projects as well as regulatory and licensing issues. Matters pertaining to DLT, cryptocurrencies and assets as well as tokenisation are core topics, where practice head and capital markets lawyer Christian Storck as well as Andreas Dehio frequently lead. The client roster consists of major banks, fintech start-ups, technology companies and financial infrastructure providers. Thomas Broichhausen boasts expertise in transaction support.
Testimonials
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'The team is very well equipped and has a good team of associates.'
'Christian Storck: Very experienced, very easy to contact and very service-oriented.'
'Comprehensive expertise, timely and professional delivery.'
'Large team with broad practice; deep expert knowledge in banking and financial law.'
'Christian Storck: Fast, solution-oriented, pragmatic; willing to think outside the box; very pleasant to deal with.'
Work highlights
- Advising Commerzbank on the first crypto custody license of a German universal bank.
- Advising KfW on the first benchmark-sized crypto securities issued under the German Electronic Securities Act.
- Advising DLT-Markets AG on its collaboration with Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, which is entering the German market with a futures product on various crypto pairs with DLT-Markets AG as the sole distributor.