Dominik Kloka, LLM (NYU)

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner

Capital Markets
Banking & Finance
Financial Services Regulation

Dominik Kloka

Dr Dominik Kloka, LL.M. (NYU) is a Partner in Noerr's Frankfurt office. As a member of the Capital Markets, Banking & Finance and Financial Services Regulation practice groups, he advises banks, issuers, corporates, investors, financial services providers, FinTechs and other market participants, in particular on corporate finance, securities trading and issuance, and regulatory issues. His advisory focus is the interface between international and national capital markets, banking and financial supervisory law. In this area, he advises in particular on debt capital markets transactions and regulated products, as well as on financial regulatory aspects of M&A transactions.

Distinctions

  • Recommended as leading adviser for Debt Capital Markets, in: Legal 500 Germany

Career

  • Legal studies at University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) at New York University (School of Law and Stern Business School)
  • Research assistant and doctoral thesis at the House of Finance (University of Frankfurt am Main) at the institute for Private Law, German, European, and International Business Law, Law and Finance, and Comparative Law
  • Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Frankfurt am Main
  • With Noerr since 2013
  • Admitted to the Chamber of Lawyers Frankfurt am Main

Memberships

  • German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV)

Publications

  • Legal commentary on the electronic securities law (eWpG): §§ 21-23 in Schulz/Neumann, eWpG
  • EU regulates the Crypto-market - The new MiCAR has been passed, in: Intelligent Investors, issue of 23 June 2023
  • A turning point in crypto regulation
  • New obligations with regard to securities financing transactions – coming into force of the Regulation on Securities Financing Transactions (SFTR) („Neue Pflichten im Hinblick auf Wertpapierfinanzierungsgeschäfte - Inkrafttreten der Verordnung zur Transparenz von Wertpapierfinanzierungsgeschäften (SFTR)“)
  • Law on the introduction of electronic securities (eWpG) has been passed.
  • Benchmark interest rates 2021
  • Implementation of EMIR requirements in connection with agreements of OTC-Derivatives. (Original title: Umsetzung von EMIR-Pflichten im Zusammenhang mit Vereinbarungen nicht-geclearter Derivategeschäfte), in: Wertpapiermitteilungen 2015, p. 215 et seq. (with Dr. Sebastian Wulff)
  • „Rechtsformen und Rahmenbedingungen der Innovationsfinanzierung - Eine juristisch-ökonomische Analyse der Venture Capital Limited Partnership als Investitionsvehikel“, Dissertation 2015