Renate Prinz
Renate Prinz focusses her practice on corporate law, national and international mergers, and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate reorganizations. She also advises at the interface with financial regulatory aspects, especially in connection with corporate transactions and/or licensing issues. Renate is experienced in advising national and foreign investment companies, credit, and financial services institutions on all aspects of German and European financial supervisory law. She furthermore has extensive experience in acting for clients in the industrial, retail, and public sectors. Furthermore, Renate publishes in corporate and financial supervisory law on a regular basis.
The year is drawing to a close – what’s new for 2023?
Von Renate Prinz am Dec 19, 2022
Gepostet In Banking Law, Financial Services, Funds
As the year draws to a close, it is worth taking a look at new regulations at the start of the year: As of January 1, the new Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the EU Disclosure Regulation will apply to financial market participants and financial advisors. With the Disclosure Regulation, which already came into force in March 2021, respective companies must prove how sustainable their products are, the extent to which ESG criteria, i.e. ecological and social standards and good corporate governance, are observed and pursued and which strategies are applied here. The Disclosure and Taxonomy Regulation applies to financial...
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Understanding the regulatory landscape for crypto-assets in Germany and the EU
Von Renate Prinz am Nov 11, 2022
Gepostet In Crypto Regulation
Currently, you can read summaries and briefings about the new crypto asset market regulation (“MiCAR”) everywhere. Certainly MiCAR has the potential to give the EU crypto market a huge boost. From what we have seen so far, regulation for new business models, especially in the fintech market, is not as bad as everyone has assumed so far. Renate Prinz puts the developments in FinExtra in perspective. Click here for the article.
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McDermottTech 2022 – Recap
Von Renate Prinz and Annabelle Rau am Oct 21, 2022
Gepostet In Crypto Regulation, Events
From crypto, NFTs and blockchain technologies, to ethics in artificial intelligence, outsourcing and cloud deals, to trends in IP protection and enforcement in the metaverse: Together, we discussed some of the latest global trends in the technology industry at this year’s McDermottTech. Interested in the content of our panels? Click here for the videos of our panels. You can also download the PowerPoint presentation here.
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FinTech Market: Regulation of crypto assets in Germany and the EU
Von Annabelle Rau and Renate Prinz am Sep 21, 2022
Gepostet In Crypto Regulation
In this webinar, Renate Prinz and Annabelle Rau provide an overview of the current regulatory land-scape for crypto assets and crypto service providers in Germany, also taking a look at the European level, where uniform legislation for the regulation of crypto-assets is coming soon. The following fur-ther topics will be covered: Regulatory classification of crypto-assets in Germany. Licensing requirements in connection with crypto-assets and crypto-services Overview of the regulatory requirements for entities regulated in Germany Draft European crypto regulation, in particular the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (“MiCAR”). Passporting of licenses within the EU Click here to watch the video. Interested...
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Article in Libra: EU creates uniform rules for dealing with crypto assets
Von Renate Prinz and Annabelle Rau am Sep 16, 2022
Gepostet In Crypto Regulation
In their latest article for “Libra – das Rechtsbriefing”, Renate Prinz and Annabelle Rau present the main contents of the new “Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation” (MiCAR), which the European Council, the EU Parliament and the EU Commission recently agreed on. Click here to read the entire article.
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New BaFin circulars on liquidity standards
Von Renate Prinz am Sep 2, 2022
Gepostet In Banking Law
In August, BaFin published new circulars on the quantitative liquidity standards of the CRR (Capital Requirements Regulation), which, in particular, address the regulatory treatment of off-balance sheet products in the structural liquidity ratio (Net Stable Funding Ratio – NSFR or “simplified NSFR”) as well as adjust the materiality criteria for annual reporting (Art. 23 of Delegated Regulation 2015/61). The two circulars are relevant for all institutions to which Article 6 (2) CRR apply and which are classified as “Less Significant Institutions (LSIs)” pursuant to Article 6 (4) SSM Regulation, as well as for all institutions pursuant to Section 1a German...
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EU Trilogue agreed on Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (“MiCAR”)
Von Renate Prinz and Annabelle Rau am Aug 11, 2022
Gepostet In Crypto Regulation
The trilogue agreed on the final text for the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (“MiCAR“) on June 30, 2022, which now needs to be adopted by the member states (click here for the press release). MiCAR will for the first time create a single European legal framework for crypto assets, crypto issuers and service providers. Crypto assets have been regulated in a predominantly inconsistent manner in Europe to date. MiCAR provides for specific requirements for Utility Token, Value-Referenced Token and E-Money Token. It does not include Security Tokens, which are already subject to existing EU financial services regulations, and Non-fungible...
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