Sebastian de Schmidt

Sebastian de Schmidt is a counsel based in Noerr’s Frankfurt office. As a member of the Compliance & Internal Investigations and Capital Markets practice groups, he advises listed companies on how to properly meet their post-admission obligations and also supports them in any investigations. Before joining Noerr, Sebastian worked at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for fourteen years. Most recently he was head of the Insider Surveillance division. Before that, Sebastian was head of the Trading Suspension, Short-Selling Monitoring and Managers’ Transactions division and deputy head of the Investigation of Market Manipulation division. Sebastian is a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth and a certified exchange trader.