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Capital Markets and Banking

Udo is a Consultant in our Luxembourg Capital Markets & Banking (including financial regulation) group.

He has more than 20 years of relevant experience in top-tier law firms on advising on a large scale of banking, financial services and insurance regulatory matters, both in an advisory role and on transactions. He has further been involved in numerous projects for setting up of banking, financial services and insurance operations for international groups as well as in complex cross-border and domestic financial institution acquisition and reorganization projects.

Udo has also specialist expertise in derivatives and securities financing (including netting and collateral opinions), corporate and private banking, financial institution insolvency and resolution, market infrastructure, Fintech and related legal matters.

Udo is a member of the Luxembourg bar, of the Association Luxembourgeoise des Juristes de Droit Bancaire (ALJB) (the Luxembourg Association of Banking Lawyers) and the Luxembourg Chapter of the AIDA (the International Insurance Law Association) and regularly contributes to professional forums and working groups focusing on regulatory developments in the banking, financial services and insurance space.

Main in Germany and studied law, philosophy and French in Bonn (Germany) and Caen (France).

Udo has become a fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) (currently not practicing) and in Luxembourg (Avocat à la Cour).

He is fluent English, French, German, and Luxembourgish.