Team size: Three

Career Biography

Alexandra Möller is an accomplished legal professional with extensive experience in corporate financing, banking regulation, and transaction management. Currently being the General Counsel and Head of Legal at CaixaBank, S.A. Zweigniederlassung Deutschland in Frankfurt am Main since October 2018, she provides legal advice and manages transactions for the corporate financing and lending business of the German branch. She has been instrumental in establishing and safeguarding the branch’s corporate set-up, banking regulatory, and data protection framework. Additionally, Alexandra Möller is responsible for the legal assessment of strategic product, cooperation, and growth initiatives, and advances expertise transfer across businesses and jurisdictions through in-house trainings and deal reviews. She also develops the branch’s German law standard documentation and manages outside counsel. As a speaker on panel discussions and roundtables, Alexandra Möller promotes the business during expert conferences, seminars, and networking events.

Prior to this role, Alexandra Möller was a Senior Legal Counsel at GE Capital Germany, from January 2015 to September 2018. In this position, she provided legal advice and managed transactions for the EMEA receivables financing, asset-based lending, corporate, and project financing business of the bank. She was responsible for the legal aspects of the bank’s strategic new product and growth initiatives and played an active role in the post-merger integration of the bank’s contractual set-up. Alexandra Möller also set up a pro bono mentoring program in cooperation with corporates and law firms and mentored a junior employee in the bank’s Risk team.

From April 2009 to November 2014, Alexandra Möller was a Counsel at CMS Hasche Sigle in the Banking & Finance department in Frankfurt am Main. She advised German and global financial institutions, strategic investors, and corporates on leveraged acquisition and corporate financing, project financing, and asset-based lending transactions in Europe and the US, including distressed and restructuring scenarios. She coordinated due diligence work, drafted, negotiated, and executed full financing documentation and corresponding security packages, and managed external local counsel advice. Alexandra Möller played a leading role in the liquidation of a cross-border loan portfolio after the collapse of a major investment bank. She also completed a six-months secondment to the World Law Group member firm Greenberg Traurig in Miami, FL, focusing on advising US investors, corporates, and banks on acquisition and project financing transactions in the US and Latin America.

Earlier in her career, Alexandra Möller worked as an Associate at Lindemann Schwennicke & Partner (a Hogan Lovells spin-off) from January 2007 to November 2008, providing legal advice and transaction management for national and international financial institutions on European acquisition and project financing transactions. She also advised banks in their defence against prospectus liability claims against their real estate funds.

Outside of work, Alexandra Möller is a passionate traveller, committed to continuous personal and professional growth, exploring new cultures and experiences. She speaks German, English, Spanish, Hungarian and just started mastering Turkish.

What are the most significant cases, projects or transactions that you and/or your legal team have recently been involved in?

In close cooperation with the legal departments in Madrid and Barcelona, and in the other international branches of CaixaBank, S.A. (France, Italy, Morocco, Poland, UK), the German legal department is handling the legal advice and transaction management for the whole corporate financing and lending business of the German branch in Germany, the Nordics, Austria, and Switzerland. The German branch is especially strong in the Schuldschein market, in syndicated and bilateral multicurrency term and revolving facilities, in bilateral aval lines, and in the supply chain and receivables financing business (more and more online platform-based), whereby the major customer base is in the automotive, media, logistics, energy and construction sectors, and the financing amounts range from EU€50mn to EU€1bn.

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

Managing legal aspects during instability or crisis is all about anticipating risks, ensuring compliance, and enabling business continuity. An approach our in-house legal team adopts is to: 1) identify immediate legal risks and prioritise critical areas. Review key contractual agreements, regulatory obligations, and litigation exposure that could be triggered by the crisis. Focus on issues that could cause operational shutdowns or regulatory penalties. Assess termination rights, renegotiation opportunities, and liability exposure. Ensure business continuity clauses and dispute resolution mechanisms are in place and enforceable; 2) activate a Legal response team: assign roles for decision-making, communication, and documentation, and ensure Legal is part of strategic discussions and decisions. Provide concise legal updates to the affected business units and management. Document decisions and communications for future audits or litigation. During crises (economic, geopolitical, cyber), regulators often issue temporary rules or relief measures; track these in real time; and 3) staying ahead: simulate worst-case scenarios (e.g., fraud, regulatory investigations, insolvency). Use contract management and compliance platforms to maintain visibility during remote operations. Continuously review and update internal policies and playbooks based on gaps identified. Incorporate resilience clauses in key contracts and enhance risk models.