Lindenpartners Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten

Managing Partners: Dr. Thomas Asmus, Dr. Lars Röh

Number of employees: 57

Languages: English, French, German

Firm Overview:

lindenpartners is one of the German capital’s preeminent independent law firms operating and recognized nationwide. Apart from its high-profile litigation work lindenpartners is also highly acclaimed in practice areas such as corporate and banking and capital markets law. Most recently, lindenpartners has become renowned for its expertise in giving legal advice on all aspects of digital transformation, in particular at the interface of financial regulation and digitalization.

lindenpartners is a pioneering firm in advising clients on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. The firm has been well recognized nationwide as being on the forefront of navigating clients through legal and policy developments concerning climate change, social responsibility and corporate governance.

Main Areas of Practice

While being a law firm of manageable size and low leverage, lindenpartners has a broad range of expertise, offering comprehensive “one stop” legal advice to clients along their business models – in particular when it comes to manoeuvring through a complex regulatory environment in financial markets.

lindenpartners core practice areas are:

■ Capital Markets

■ Financial Regulation in Banking and Asset Management

■ Digital Businesses, Digitization

■ Corporate/M&A

■ Real Estate

■ Litigation

■ Public law (disputes with supervisory authorities)

lindenpartners’ lawyers are used to working in a collaborative and iterative style using new technology tools as used by their clients.

FinTech:

Based on lindenpartners long-standing experience in the regulation of banks and financial markets and its strong foothold in Berlin’s startup ecosystem its Capital Markets and Financial Regulation team provides financial institutions and fintech's advice on all legal and regulatory matters (including cross-border aspects) to businesses operating at the interface between financial services, data privacy law and information technology. In particular, its advice is focused on the development and application of AI-based scoring methods, prudential and conduct of business requirements applicable to investment firms and the issuance, marketing, storage and platform trading of financial instruments based on the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), such as cryptocurrencies, utility and security token.

■ Digital payment services

■ Consumer rights compliance

■ Capital and liquidity requirements

■ Public offerings

■ Crowdfunding, crowdlending and similar platforms

■ Regulatory reviews, no action requests with authorities

■ Shareholder control procedures with BaFin

■ MiFID II compliance support

■ Data privacy and information security

Key Clients:

Raisin, Star Finanz, Vexcash, Liqid, 21.finance, VR Family Finance, Wallis, Tesobe, Solarisbank, Fidor Bank,Deutsche Kreditbank, Deutsche WertpapierService Bank

Contact Name:

Banking & Financial Regulation:

Contact: Dr. Lars Röh

Tel: +49 30 755424-28

Email: [email protected]

Capital Markets, Asset Management & Financial Services & FinTech:

Contact: Dr. Frank Zingel

Tel: +49 30 755 424-19

Email: [email protected]