Dechert LLP

Financial Services and Investment Management

Partner

Angelo Lercara, LL.M. EuR, co-managing partner of the Munich office, advises on all different aspects of financial services law. He has more than 20 years' experience relating to the structuring and marketing of financial products and alternative investment funds, as well as counselling of German institutional and regulated investors. He also regularly advises fund sponsors on the regulatory implications of utilizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in the investment process.

He helped to pioneer the first listing of ETCs and has since advised on a range of ETC and ETF listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as well as on securities and fund offerings and MiFID related ongoing compliance obligations and reportings.

Regularly providing multinational legal advice in English, German, Italian and French, alongside a broad knowledge of European law, Mr. Lercara is able to address global and European regulatory challenges, serving the needs of his diverse and long-term client base, including major managers of mutual and alternative funds, insurance companies, banks and German branches of foreign banks and asset managers. He also advises clients on post-Brexit strategy, providing guidance on critical issues.

Mr. Lercara frequently acts as author and speaker at industry events and is a requested interview partner for the international financial press.

Mr. Lercara is a permanent host of Dechert On Reg, our global financial regulation podcast series.

English,. German, Italian, French

Università degli Studi di Torino, 1996; Universität des Saarlandes, 1997; Europa Institut der Universität des Saarlandes, LL.M., EuR, 1999