Arndt Alexander Schmidt, MLE
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Solicitor in England and Wales, Senior Associate
Regulatory and Governmental Affairs
Financial Services Regulation
Compliance & Investigations
Projects
- EMERAM: Regulatory advice on the acquisition of CoCoNet AG by the private equity fund EMERAM (2024)
- Foresight Group LLP: Regulatory advice on the investment in a project company for the development of one of the largest production plants for green hydrogen in Europe to date near Lubmin (2023).
- Summit Partners: Regulatory advice on the investment of IK Partners in Cinerius Financial Partners (2023)
- Capital 49/Force Over Mass: Regulatory advice on the investment in the German fintech finway GmbH (2023).
- Bank of Communications Co., Ltd, Frankfurt Branch: Advising on the regulatory aspects of the issuance of certificates of deposit (2022).
- Foresight Group LLP: Advising on the acquisition of a participation in the hydrogen project developer HH2E and majority participations in 5 projects (2022)
- Summit Partners: Advising on market-consolidating buy-and-build transactions in the regulated finance sector (2020-2022)
- Dragoneer Investment Group: Advising on a funding round for N26 with an overall valuation of approx. USD 9 billion (2021)
- LVM a. G.: Advising on the sale of Augsburger Aktienbank Leasing subsidiary to PEAC Finance (2021)
- Wirecard AG‘s Insolvency administrator: Advising on sale and winding-up processes (2020/2021)
- LVM a. G.: Advising on the sale of the securities business of its subsidiary Augsburger Aktienbank AG to the European Bank for Financial Services GmbH (2020)
Insights
Career
Legal studies at Leibniz University, Hanover
Additional studies in European Legal Practice at Leibniz University, Hanover and the University of Durham (United Kingdom)
Doctorate at Leibniz University, Hanover with a research stay at Oxford University (United Kingdom)
With Noerr since 2020
Admitted to the Hamburg Chamber of Lawyers
Dual qualification as Solicitor in England and Wales
Memberships
- Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung
- Law Society of England and Wales
Publications
- Regulatorische Anforderungen an das Risikomanagement von Instituten steigen erneut, in: die Bank 10/2023, from p. 50 (with Jens H. Kunz)
- Doppelqualifikation als »Solicitor in England and Wales«, in: JA 11/2023, from p. V.
- Corporate Governance von Wertpapierinstituten (Corporate Governance of Investment Institutions), in: BKR 2021, from p. 535 (with Karl-Alexander Neumann)
- Ausschussöffentlichkeit im Deutschen Bundestag, Duncker & Humblot, 2021
- Bewertung von Prüfungsleistungen, in: Niedersächsische Verwaltungsblätter (NdsVBl.) 2016, S.281-288