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Moritz Gerstmayr
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Moritz Gerstmayr, LL.M. (La Trobe University Melbourne)

Rechtsanwalt

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
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Moritz Gerstmayr advises banks and financial services providers as well as investment firms and investment service providers on all regulatory aspects of German and European financial supervision. His clients also include payment service providers and fintech companies. With special expertise in banking regulation, capital markets law and investment law, he regularly advises on licensing and ownership control proceedings before the supervisory authorities in Germany and the European Central Bank as well as on the acquisitions of shareholdings and M&A transactions in the financial sector, often with cross-border implications. He also has in-depth bank restructuring and insolvency know-how.

Moritz joined CMS in 2019, after having started his legal career at another major commercial law firm in 2015. He gained international finance sector experience on secondments to a Luxembourg investment services company and the investment services company of a large French bank.

Publications

  • Non-Performing Loans und das Kreditzweitmarktgesetz, BKR 2024, 890
  • Deutsche Kreditmarkt-Standards, Schalast/Keibel, Band 2, Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft, Kapitel 11: Das Kreditzweitmarktgesetz – Neuregelung für den Umgang mit notleidenden Krediten
  • DER BETRIEB 46/2023, 2683 - Kreditzweitmarktgesetz: Neuregelungen beim Kauf und Verkauf von Krediten
  • Gerstmayr/Denefleh: ZAG-Relevanz im Bereich Finanzierungsleasing, BKR 2023, 593
  • Gerstmayr, Moritz, Holzmann, Dr. Christian und Denefleh, Sarah: Die Bestellung eines Abwicklers durch die BaFin nach § 37 KWG in: BKR 2022, S. 711 ff
  • Gerstmayr, Moritz und Lorenz, Philippe: Transparenz erreicht, zum Teil über das Ziel hinausgeschossen – Im Blickpunkt: MiFID II – weiterer Ausbau des Anlegerschutzes, Beitrag in: Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Ausgabe 05 vom 7. März 2018, Seiten 12-14
  • Scherer, Peter und Gerstmayr, Moritz: Bunte Vielfalt – Die neue Marktstruktur der Deutschen Börse versus Vorzüge alternativer Börsenplätze wie Euronext, Wien, Zürich, in: GoingPublic Magazin Special „Kapitalmarktrecht 2018“, 28.04.2018, S. 18 f.

Memberships & Roles

  • German-Australian-Pacific Lawyers Association (DAPJV)

Lectures list

  • „Compliance-Risiken bei der Vergabe von Förderkrediten – Dos & Don’ts“ (Webinar), Frankfurt am Main, 23.04.2020

Education

  • 2012 - 2014: Trainee lawyer at Frankfurt Higher Regional Court including placements at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Commerzbank and Allianz Global Investors
  • Research assistant at a major UK law firm
  • 2012: LL.M. in Global Business Law, La Trobe University Melbourne
  • 2006 - 2011: Law studies at the University of Passau
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