Stefan Henkelmann

Practice Areas

Stefan advises on a wide range of capital markets transactions with a focus on structured finance and debt capital markets. He specialises in advising on securitisations – covering true sale, secured loan and synthetic structures across a broad range of asset classes – and other structured finance and derivatives transactions including repackagings, secured notes, strategic equity and non-performing loan transactions. Another focus of his practice are bond transactions including Pfandbriefe, covered bonds, structured notes, hybrid and corporate bonds and bond restructurings. Stefan has also broad experience in advising on all related regulatory and insolvency law matters. He is widely recognised as one of Germany’s leading capital markets lawyers.

Stefan works with major international clients, including banks, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates, originators and investors, across jurisdictions and in multiple sectors, including in particular financial services, real estate, infrastructure, energy and alternative investments.

He is a lecturer for capital markets law at the INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND FINANCE of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and a frequent author of publications on capital markets law topics and new and emerging developments in this field. Stefan frequently speaks at industry conferences and gives training sessions for clients and market participants.