About Us

McDermott advises national and international investment companies, banks, financial and payment service providers as well as investment funds on all aspects of German and European financial supervisory law. We support our clients from the establishment and the required licensing procedures (KWG, WpIG, ZAG, ECSP-VO) to strategic issues of internal organization, outsourcing (MaRisk), risk management, compliance and governance organization, other regulatory requirements such as MiFID II and CRD IV as well as M&A transactions. We also have excellent expertise in the fast-growing FinTech and crypto markets as well as on regulatory issues such as permission requirements for tokenization and crypto asset trading, crypto custody, or e-money/e-wallets. If you have any questions regarding our German financial regulatory practice, please feel free to contact Renate Prinz. If you are interested in our Global Offering, click here for Fintech and Blockchain or here for Structured Finance, Derivatives & Financial Products.