Dr. Martin Freytag is an associate at GSK Stockmann in Munich. He specializes advising banks, financial service providers, investment fund managers and institutional investors on financial and insurance regulatory issues; setting-up and structuring of financial instruments such as investment funds, securitisations, bonds, structured finance and mezzanine financing; capital market and stock exchange law as well as advising on electronic payment services. He is admitted to the Bar in Germany (2022) and speaks German, English and French. He is a member of the Bankrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V. and publishes regularly.
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Dr Martin Geiger joined Hengeler Mueller in 1995 and became a partner in 2000.
He has a long-standing experience of advising banks, private equity funds and corporate clients on a broad range of complex transactions including structured financings, refinancing with commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), and real estate financings
His recent work includes the advice of a Swedish truck manufacturer on the secuiritisation of UK lease receivables, a German leasing company on the securitisation of French lease receivables and a German bank on the purchase of lease receivables in several European countries.
Martin Geiger studied law at the University of Munich and the University of Michigan Law School. He is regularly included in the most prestigious rankings on the German law firm market and described as a "Leading Advisor" in Structured Finance.
He has a long-standing experience of advising banks, private equity funds and corporate clients on a broad range of complex transactions including structured financings, refinancing with commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), and real estate financings
His recent work includes the advice of a Swedish truck manufacturer on the secuiritisation of UK lease receivables, a German leasing company on the securitisation of French lease receivables and a German bank on the purchase of lease receivables in several European countries.
Martin Geiger studied law at the University of Munich and the University of Michigan Law School. He is regularly included in the most prestigious rankings on the German law firm market and described as a "Leading Advisor" in Structured Finance.
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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.
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.
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Dr. Arne Klüwer works as a Partner for Dentons in Frankfurt am Main. He heads the German banking and finance practice and the structured finance practice in continental Europe. He specialises in structured finance and restructurings with a special focus on securitisation and factoring, asset-based lending, innovative financings in the area of renewable energies as well as loan trading transactions. This includes wide-ranging experience in the securitisation of receivables originating from all traditional as well as more exotic asset classes, including trade receivables, secured and unsecured loans with various maturity profiles, lease receivables, hereditary building rights, consumer loans and telephone receivables. A presently especially relevant experience is his experience acting for an arranger and investor in the context of the structuring over the workout to the insolvency and the effects on a transaction for the securitisation of solar lease receivables originating from long-rental contracts over privately operated solar power plant installations in transactions with granular portfolios across all of Germany.
In addition, he has a strong focus on advising lenders and creditors in workout situations and in the context of restructuring distressed debt. His doctorate focusses on a comparative legal analysis of the legal framework for securitisations in the USA and in Germany and is one of the first academic writings on the subject of securitisation in Germany.
In addition, he has a strong focus on advising lenders and creditors in workout situations and in the context of restructuring distressed debt. His doctorate focusses on a comparative legal analysis of the legal framework for securitisations in the USA and in Germany and is one of the first academic writings on the subject of securitisation in Germany.
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Barbara has specialised experience in debt capital markets products with a focus on asset-based structured finance, including, in particular, ESG transactions, project bonds, true sale and synthetic securitisation and other secured financing of various asset classes as well as derivatives. She is further specialised in portfolio and NPL transactions and their (re-) financing (in particular via structured finance solutions). Barbara is – as a former consumer litigator – an expert on German consumer credit law and leasing aspects.
She is rated as one of the most prominent female lawyers in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2024, as one of the leading lawyers in the area of structured finance by JUVE 2024/25 and as one of the "Leading Partners" in Legal 500 Germany 2025 in the area of structured finance and securitisation. She is further listed as "Highly regarded" in IFLR1000 2024 in the field of structured finance and securitisation and Chambers Germany 2025 ranks her as one of the recommended lawyers for structured finance in Germany.
She is rated as one of the most prominent female lawyers in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2024, as one of the leading lawyers in the area of structured finance by JUVE 2024/25 and as one of the "Leading Partners" in Legal 500 Germany 2025 in the area of structured finance and securitisation. She is further listed as "Highly regarded" in IFLR1000 2024 in the field of structured finance and securitisation and Chambers Germany 2025 ranks her as one of the recommended lawyers for structured finance in Germany.
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Sebastian Oebels advises national and international companies on German and international structured finance transactions. He has a strong focus on traditional securitisations, significant risk transfer securitisations and other types of asset-based lending structures. In particular, Sebastian has extensive experience in advising banks, issuers and originators on securitisations backed by auto loans/leases, renewable energy (solar and heat pump systems) and digital infrastructure-related assets.
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