About us

Justus Froehlich, LL.M. (Georgetown)
Ph.D. Goettingen University
(Fachanwalt) Certified specialist on banking and capital markets law

Training
Goettingen and Freiburg University; Graduation in 1991; Georgetown University, Law Centre, Washington D.C. (USA); LL.M. (Common Law studies) 1992
Ph.D. studies with DAAD-Scholarship 1993; Ph.D. thesis 1995
Mandatory service and legal training (Referendarszeit) at civil courts, public prosecutor office, in-house lawyer for major Frankfurt Bank 1994-1995
Admission to the Bar in 2005; certified specialist on banking and capital markets law in 2010, qualification on becoming specialist in insurance law 2011.

Languages
English (publications and seminar training); French (reading).

Practice Focus
Main areas of legal work are involving banking and capital markets law, insurance law as well as banking regulation and financial marketing issues.

Extra Activities
Regional Manager of Association of Family Enterprises; Member of Board of Management of Region vbw (Association of Bavarian Business) Bavarian Swabia, member of several alumni associations, national and international; founder of FF FinanzRecht.

• National and international banking and capital markets law
• Disputes in capital markets law
• Litigation of capital market investors, especially family business management and self-employed
• In-depth knowledge of banking products such as complex structured finance and derivatives
• Management- and in-house law experience (managerial function)
• Legal documentation on Asset Backed Securitisation; bond markets issuance department; financing small- and medium cap businesses; compliance issues; risk management and risk controlling
• Cross-border outsourcing of services
• MiFiD; banking and capital markets directives.
• Cross-border litigation in Europa ( Rom I / and Brussels).
• Cross-border asset management (Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Singapore)