Sven Mickisch
FinTech Guide 2025
Band 3 : FinTech Legal: Corporate, Securities & Financing
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About
Provided by Sven Mickisch
Practice Areas
Managing Partner of Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice, Sven Mickisch advises on complex, high profile and often groundbreaking transactions and corporate matters across the financial services space. He has significant experience advising financial institutions in mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, consortia and financing transactions and has handled numerous restructurings and recapitalizations of financial institutions. He also regularly advises private equity firms transacting in the financial services sector. Sven has been repeatedly recognized by New York Law Journal, Who’s Who Legal, Law360 and Euromoney.
Personal
Columbia University School of Law, J.D. (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2005; London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B. (Sir Morris Finer Memorial Prize), 2004.
Chambers Review
FinTech
Sven Mickisch is co-head of both the financial institutions group and the FinTech practice at the firm. He handles general corporate matters for clients and advises on cutting-edge transactions between banks and FinTech platforms, which often require multi-state licensing approval.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Matthew Nemeroff asks what the client wants to achieve, puts together a strategy, and delivers results in a very thoughtful, dogged fashion."
"Matthew Nemeroff asks what the client wants to achieve, puts together a strategy, and delivers results in a very thoughtful, dogged fashion."