Clifford Chance Partnerschaft mbB

Marc Benzler specialises in the area of banking and capital markets, with particular emphasis on regulatory issues including licensing and approval procedures, recovery and resolution planning and regulation of derivatives and financial market infrastructures. He also advises on M&A transactions in the financial sector, on the establishing of banks and branches and on compliance matters. He is also advising on the Banking Union and supervision by the ECB as well as on the digitalisation of the financial sector.

Oliver Kronat is a Partner in the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance and heads the German Structured Finance practice. He specialises in advising on German and international structured finance transactions, portfolio trades and alternative investments. His experience spans a broad range of asset classes, including trade, consumer, leasing and loan receivables, solar panel receivables, data centre-related assets and ABCP conduit programmes.
Oliver regularly advises banks, originators, investors and funds on securitisations, credit risk transfer transactions, specialty finance structures, loan portfolio acquisitions (including non-performing loans), fund-linked notes, fintech-driven financing solutions and related regulatory matters. He also advises on investments in loans, debt and infrastructure funds.
In addition to his legal qualification, Oliver is admitted as a German tax advisor.

Kerstin Schaepersmann specialises in German and international structured finance transactions. She advises sponsors, arrangers, lenders, lead managers, issuers and originators on synthetic and cashflow securitisations (including CLOs, CMBS, repackagings and securitisations of trade and lease receivables) and secured loan transactions, as well as the restructuring thereof. She also advises on general bank regulatory questions (including licensing procedures and cross-border banking and investment services as well as regulation of derivatives and financial market infrastructures).

Hannes Deusch specialises in advising on German and international structured finance transactions. His experience includes the securitisation of trade, consumer, leasing, loan receivables and interest in funds and the establishment of ABCP Conduit Programmes, portfolio sales and other structured finance transactions. Hannes Deusch also advises insurance companies and funds in tailor-made alternative investments. He also advises on the restructuring of securitisation and other structured finance transactions, on regulatory issues as well as trustees and agents in the context of securitisation transactions.