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Dr. Uta Sophie Richter, LL.M. (University of Sydney)

Principal Counsel
Rechtsanwältin | Fachanwältin für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (Certified lawyer for banking and capital markets law)

CMS Hasche Sigle
Neue Mainzer Straße 2–4
60311 Frankfurt
Germany
Languages German, English

Uta Richter specialises in consumer financing and digitisation projects. She advises on leasing, loan and sales financing (wholesale/retail) and represents her clients before German state courts. Uta’s practice includes assisting banks with the implementation of EU consumer protection directives, drafting consumer and business lease/loan contracts and other standard bank documents including general terms and conditions in all forms. She also advises banks on developing new banking products and the securitisation of receivables from the leasing/lending business via asset-backed securities. Moreover, she assists with civil and business law matters, distance selling, prospectus liability, marketing campaigns in print media as well as online and represents the interests of banks vis-à-vis dealer associations and institutions.

Uta joined CMS as a qualified lawyer in 1998. She is a lecturer at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and HERA Fortbildungs GmbH der Hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft (Frankfurter Bank- und Kapitalmarktrechtstage).

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Lectures list

  • Referentin der HERA Fortbildungs GmbH der Hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft
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Education

  • Doctorate in Law on a subject of public finance at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
  • LL.M. at the University of Sydney
  • Law studies at the University of Frankfurt and Regensburg
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04/02/2016
The European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS)
Background The Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive (the DGS Directive) requires all EU Member States to operate national deposit protection schemes providing 100,000 Euro of cover (for each de­pos­it­or/bank...
20/01/2016
The regulation of financial institutions in Europe – the supervisory and...
The following reports are now available:The supervision of financial institutions in the EUThe EU legislative and rule-making process: our report, and supplementary training slides and QMV report.The...
07/01/2016
Recent problems applying financial services law under the EEA Agreement
The operation of the EEA Agreement The EEA Agreement entered into force in 1994. It was created to allow 3 non-EU states to participate in the EU Single Market. The 3 states are Iceland, Liechtenstein...
06/01/2016
EU financial services - the legislative and rule-making process
Background In the reports, we draw a distinction between the rule-mak­ing/le­gis­lat­ive process (the subject of this report) and the “su­per­vi­sion” of individual firms (to check their compliance with...
15/07/2015
The regulation of financial institutions in Europe - the supervisory and...
The RegZone reportsWe have broken this large topic into a series of discrete reports illustrated with a series of charts and diagrams (including 15 charts demonstrating how the institutional structure...
15/07/2015
The supervision of financial institutions in the EU
The supervision of the banks in the Eurozone.A key pillar of the so called ‘banking union’ was the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The SSM introduced a new structure for the...
15/07/2015
The supervision of banks within the Eurozone - the Single Supervisory Mechanism
ECB is now one of the leading global bank regulatorsUnder the SSM, the ECB supervises banking assets of roughly € 30 trillion (the vast majority of Eurozone banking assets – as much as 85%). This...
02/12/2014
Germany adopts new deposit insurance law to implement the DGS Directive
The DGS Implementation Act splits up the existing Deposit Guarantee and Investor Compensation Act (Ein­la­gensicher­ungs- und An­leger­entschädi­gungs­ge­setz – "EAEG”) into two separate acts, the Deposit...
10/10/2014
The New Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive
Level of deposit protection Currently, depositors are covered up to €100 000 per authorised deposit. The new DGS Directive confirms that €100 000 is an appropriate level of protection and this will...