Alexander Behrens
Global Guide 2024
Band 3 : Banking & Finance: Regulatory
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About
Provided by Alexander Behrens
Practice Areas
Alexander heads the German financial regulatory team and advises banks and other financial service providers, including FinTech companies, as well as unregulated companies on all aspects of financial regulatory law. In addition to German and European banking regulatory law, he focuses on payment services law and capital markets regulation as well as issues related to the Banking Union. Furthermore, Alexander has broad experience in the areas of M&A of regulated entities, NPL transactions, civil banking law and in internal investigations in the finance sector.
Chambers Review
Global
Alexander Behrens is well regarded for his regulatory work on cross-border mandates, especially those pertaining to mergers and joint ventures in the financial sector, the setting up of new financial institutions as well as business expansions into and beyond the German market. He also assists banks with withdrawals from the German market.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alexander Behrens is a lawyer with excellent expertise and very strong commercial awareness."
"Alexander Behrens is a lawyer with excellent expertise and very strong commercial awareness."