TSI Training

Christian Fahrholz is Director at True Sale International GmbH since November 2021. Prior to that, since April 2016, he was Head of Division at the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), where he was responsible for the impact of financial market regulation and monetary policy on corporate financing. Until leaving the DIHK in October 2021, he was a member of the Executive Board at the Verband Deutscher Bürgschaftsbanken e. V. (VDB).
Prior to joining DIHK, he was a visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank) and worked as a freelance consultant for public and private clients in Egypt, South Africa and the United States. Earlier appointments included a visiting professorship at the Chair of Macroeconomics, in particular monetary theory, at the University of Erfurt.

Andrea Flunker is a Director in Deloitte’s Financial Services practice, specialising in structured finance and securitisation. She advises originators and investors on complex regulatory, accounting and transaction-related matters across Germany and the EU.
She leads advisory engagements regarding synthetic and true sale securitisation transactions across various asset classes. Her expertise includes transaction structuring, significant risk transfer assessment, capital optimisation, balance sheet management, the application of European securitisation and prudential regulatory requirements as well as accounting treatment of securitisations according to German GAAP and IFRS.
In addition, she advises clients on sustainability reporting, including CSRD, ESRS, SFDR, EU Taxonomy and ESG related regulatory reporting and transparency requirements. She also leads assurance engagements covering sustainability reports, non-financial statements and reportings for green and social bond issuances.

Stefan Henkelmann is one of Germany’s leading capital markets lawyers and has extensive experience across structured finance, debt capital markets and related regulatory matters. He advises on a wide range of capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on securitisations, including true sale, secured loan and synthetic structures across a broad range of asset classes. His practice also covers other structured finance and derivatives transactions, including repackagings, secured notes, strategic equity and non-performing loan transactions.
Stefan Henkelmann regularly advises banks, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates, originators and investors on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. He has significant experience in bond transactions, including Pfandbriefe, covered bonds, structured notes, hybrid and corporate bonds, as well as bond restructurings. In addition, he advises extensively on the regulatory and insolvency law aspects of capital markets and structured finance transactions.
His clients operate across a range of sectors, particularly financial services, real estate, infrastructure, energy and alternative investments. Alongside his transactional practice, Stefan Henkelmann is a lecturer in capital markets law at the Institute for Law and Finance of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He is also a frequent author on capital markets law and emerging market developments, and regularly speaks at industry conferences and delivers training sessions for clients and market participants.

Christoph Plattenteich is Co-Head of Debt Capital Markets & Head of ABS, DACH at SEB in Frankfurt. He has more than 30 years of experience in banking and held various management roles at European financial institutions. Through all the years his main focus has been the capital markets an structured finance business. Christoph has extensive experience in structuring capital market transactions with a special focus on the securitization of trade-, loan- and lease-receivables.
He holds a degree in economics from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Prof. Dr. Frank Schiemann holds the Chair for Business Administrations, esp. Management Accounting, at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on determinants and consequences of corporate sustainability disclosure. His research is published in renowned international academic journals. He is engaged in knowledge transfer through webinars, workshops and policy briefs. Amongst others, he is a member of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform (Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance) and the adhoc-group “Sustainable Finance” of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK).