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Walter Gapp

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German
English
French

Walter Gapp is a lawyer with many years of specialisation in Capital Market Law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on the preparation of issuance programmes as well as the issuance of bonds and regulatory capital instruments.

He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitisation transactions, new business models for financial service providers and comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms.

His clients include Austrian issuers, Austrian and international investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies and securities firms, domestic and foreign funds as well as debt buyers and sellers.

Awards & Recognitions

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He has a lot of regulatory know-how and is a smart guy.

Chambers Europe, 2024
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Walter Gapp is a very pleasant and knowledgeable lawyer

Chambers Global, 2026
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„Walter is detail-oriented and finds the mistake that nobody else finds. “

Client feedback, Chambers Global 2024

Publications

Payment moratoria under COVID-19 legislation - Impact on securitisation structures - EBA clarification, CMS Law-Now, 2020
Chapter on Securitization, in Dellinger/Blume, CRR-Kommentar (2019)
Chapter on Austria, in Zerey (Hrsg), Finanzderivate. Rechtshandbuch3 (Nomos, 2013).
Neues CET1-Instrument. Vom Partizipationskapital zur „Bankaktie“ und zurück? Eine erste Einordnung, ZFR 2013/7, 302.
Gapp/Lanschützer, Zahlungsdienstegesetz II: Informationspflichten, Rahmenvertrag und Zahlungsvorgänge ZFR 2009/5, 176.
Gapp/Lanschützer, Zahlungsdienstegesetz I: Aufsichtsrecht: Konzessionstatbestände, Eigenmittel, interne Organisation, ZFR 2009/5, 170.
Nach Basel II: Reform der Eigenmitteldefinition? – Aktuelle Rechtsfragen und Tendenzen, ZFR 2008/1, 29.
Ebner/Gapp, Neuer Rechtsrahmen für Warenderivate, ecolex 2008/1, 20.
Gapp/Gfall, Transparenzpflichten nach MiFID, ecolex 2007/4, 228.
Internal Governance für Kreditinstitute und Wertpapierfirmen – Organisationsvorschriften nach Basel II, ÖBA 2007/3, 169.
Gapp/Gfall, Innovatives Tier I in Österreich – Die Emission hybrider Finanzinstrumente nach dem BWG, ÖBA 2005/1, 5.
Deposit Insurance Design – Einlagensicherung in Österreich und internationale „best practice“, ÖBA 2003/10, 70.
Gapp/Gfall, Grenzüberschreitende Bankgeschäfte ohne inländische Niederlassung – Internationale Anknüpfung und Konzessionspflicht, ecolex 2003/4, 244.

Memberships & Roles

Austrian Bankers’ Association (BWG)
Austrian Bar Association

Lectures list

Walter Gapp is a lecturer in securitisation in the LL.M. programme in banking and financial market law at the University of Liechtenstein.

Education

2000 – LL.M., Droit Européen et Droit International Économique, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne
1997-1998 – Scholarship, Swiss Confederation, University of Geneva
1994-1995 – Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes ISTI, Brussels
1999 – Mag. phil., translator and interpreter training (French/English), University of Innsbruck
1998 – Mag. iur., Law, University of Innsbruck

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance Insolvency & Restructuring Capital Markets

sectors

Funds

Insights by Walter

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Press releases Austria

CMS advises Erste Asset Management GmbH on the acquisition of Impact Asset Management GmbH

16 Sep 2024 2 min read

Legal Update Austria

EU legislative initiatives on recovery and resolution planning for insurance undertakings are taking shape

13 Feb 2024 6 min read

Event International

Cross Border Financial Regulation

15 Nov 2023

News Austria

CMS advises banking syndicate on the issuance of EUR 750,000,000 Additional Tier 1 Notes by Erste Group Bank AG

14 Dec 2020 1 min read