Areas of practice

• European legal development in the capital markets and financial sector (Directive on markets in financial instruments, MiFID, Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD), Banking union, Basel III, CRD and other measures)
• Applications for bank licences, foundations of financial services institutions and capital management companies
• Ownership control procedures for financial institutions
• Contract law and contracting
• Banking Supervisory law
• Investment law
• Securities Law
• SME financing
• Designing general terms and conditions in the financial and banking sector
• Legal representation of banks and financial service providers
• Corporate law
• Company purchase agreements, capital measures
• Financial Distribution Law
• Business administration law

Education and professional career

• Studied at the University of Augsburg

Languages

• German
• English

Memberships

• Honorary Consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein
• Lecturer for Banking Law at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
• Study Society for Mittelstandsfragen (SME) e.V.
• Economic Advisory Board Bavaria
• Supervisory board of Jung, DMS & Cie. AG
• Supervisory board of FINUM.Finanzhaus AG
• Series of lectures about MiFID, MiFID II and other capital markets-oriented legal proposals

Publications

• Waigel, Christian: Die Unabhängigkeit der Europäischen Zentralbank, Diss., Jena 1997.
• Waigel, Christian: MiFID und BGH-Rechtsprechung als Rahmenbedingungen der Vertriebssteuer in: Vertriebssteuerung in der Finanzdienstleistungsindustrie (Frankfurt School Verlag), 2008, Seite 121 ff.
• Waigel, Christian: Gesetzesänderungen schaffen Transparenz – deutsche Vorgaben werden an das Europarecht angepasst (Handelsblatt Nr. 83, 30.04.2007)
• Waigel, Christian / Frey Peter: Anforderungen der MiFID an die Dienstleistung der Vermögensverwaltung in: Jahrbuch Vermögensverwaltung 2008 – Anlagestrategien und Kosten für Privatanleger, 15. Ausgabe, 2007, Rainer Konrad (Hrsg.), Seite 29 ff.

Areas of practice

• public building law
• law of public contracts regarding urban development (städtebauliche Verträge)
• real estate law
• financing real estate investments
• environmental protection and planning law
• bank law
• private building law
• law of (building) project control and management
• constitutional law
• EU and national public procurement law

Education and professional career

• study of law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• 1981 doctorate summa cum laude „Der freihändige Grunderwerb der öffentlichen Hand“.
• 1981 – 1987 assistant with the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, chair for international and european commercial law with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fikentscher; cooperatation with the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and competition law, 1985 lecturer with Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich for private law
• 1984 – 2015 member oft he City Councel of the City of Stadt, advisor for finance, since 2017 member oft he City Councel of the City of Stadt
• 1987 – 1989 legal advisor and designated head legal advisor of the bank Merck Finck & Co, Munich
• 1989 visiting attorney with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington D.C., USA
• 1990 – 1993 head legal advisor of Merck Finck & Co., spokesman
• 1994 – 1996 lawyer with Beiten, Burkhardt, Mittl und Wegener
• 1997 – 2007 founded Gaßner & Kollegen, later meger with Stockmann to become GSK Gassner Stockmann & Kollegen
• 2000 – 2017 lectureship with the Hochschule Anhalt
• 2006 member of the board of trustees awarding the Bavarian Architecture Award
• 2007 honorary professorship with the Hochschule Anhalt economic law, especially banking law
• 2007 – 2009 director and partner with Aderhold Gassner Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft GmbH
• 2009 – 2017 founder GASSNER RECHTSANWÄLTE, Munich
• since April 2011 member of the supervisory board of Donner & Reuschel AG, a bank

Languages

• German
• English

Lectures
lectures with the Bayerischen Gemeindetag Kommunal-GmbH regarding public broadband funding  “Neue Förderung beim Breitband – Das Vergabeverfahren und die Beachtung der Beihilfevorschriften außerhalb der Förderrichtlinie (Bundesrahmenregelung Leerrohre, Einzelnotifizierung)”.

Publications
Prof. Dr. Gassner is author of not only his doctoral thesis but also of a number of further publications. Especially he is one of the authors of the legal commentary on the „Bayerische Bauordnung“, the Bavarian Building Regulations „Simon/Busse“.

I. Books
“Der freihändige Grunderwerb der öffentlichen Hand”, Münchener Universitätsschriften, Reihe der Juristischen Fakultät, Band 56, C.H. Beck Verlag, München 1983, XV, 255 S. gr. 8° (Degenhart, NVwZ 84, 229 (Bespr.); Baur, AcP 184 (1984), 326 (Bespr.); Battis/Krautzberger/Löhr, BauGB, 3. Aufl., § 87 Rdnr. 6, § 110 Rdnr. 3; Berkemann, Berliner Kommentar, BauGB, 1. Aufl., § 87 Rdnr. 85, § 89 Rdnr. 15; ders., Berliner Kommentar, BauGB, 2. Aufl. § 87 Rdnr. 100, § 89 Rdnr. 11; Schmidt-Aßmann, Rechtsfragen städtebaulicher Verträge, S. 3 ff.)

II. Commentaries

1. Simon, Bayerische Bauordnung (1998), Loseblatt-Kommentar, C.H.Beck Verlag, Art. 52, 53, 67 (mit Dr. Wolfgang Würfel), Art. 10.
2. Simon/Busse, Bayerische Bauordnung (2008), Loseblatt-Kommentar, C.H.Beck Verlag, Art. 64

III. Electronic publications

1. Planungsgewinn und städtebaulicher Vertrag, Referat auf der Fachtagung “Der Vertrag im Städtebau” Bonn, 20./21.9.2000 Deutsches Volksheimstättenwerk in Kooperation mit Deutscher Städtetag und Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund.
2. BayBO 2005 und die anerkannten Regeln der Baukunst, Vortrag vor der Bayerischen Architektenkammer am 3.5.2004.
3. Novellierung der BayBO, Referat vor dem Stadtrat der Landeshauptstadt München bei einer Expertenanhörung am 11.02.2004.

IV. Contributions in Collections

1. “Grundeigentum und Grunderwerbsgeschäfte der öffentlichen Hand als Marktfaktoren”, in Chiotellis/ Fikentscher, “Rechtstatsachenforschung – Methodische Probleme aus dem Schuld- und Wirtschaftsrecht”, S. 249 – 328, Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag, Köln 1985 (Bender, ZRP 86, 29 (Bespr.); Gottwald, AcP 186 (1986),412 (Bespr.); Berkemann, Berliner Kommentar, BauGB, § 89 Rdnr. 11)
2. „Lexikon der Immobilienbewertung“, jurist. Stichwörter, Sandner/Weber (Hrsg.), Bundesanzeiger-Verlag,
3. „Basel II: Bewertung von Grundschulden aus Bankensicht und deren Einfluß auf das Rating“, in: Corporate Real Estate Jahrbuch 2004 (mit Dr. Dirk Brückner)

V. Papers

1. “Keine Finanzierung der Straßenbeleuchtung durch Beiträge” DÖV 83, 412
2. “Aktuelle Probleme des Bauplanungsrechts – I. Einleitung: Bauplanungsrecht und kommunale Selbstverwaltung II. Befangenheit von Gemeinderäten bei der Bauleitplanung” Kommunalpraxis 83, 129

Areas of practice

• Banking Supervisory law (KWG, CRD IV, MaRisk etc.),
• Capital markets law including prospectus law (MiFID, WpPG, KAGB etc.),
• Financial distribution law (MiFID, WpHG, MaComp etc.),
• (Securities) compliance including assumption of the Compliance function,
• Capital Investment and investment law in the area of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds (AIFM, KAGB etc.),
• Lawsuits
• Digital Banking (FinTech) and Crowdfunding and
• Financing law

Education and professional career

• Studied at the University of Saarland and the University of Edinburgh
• 2006 – 2009 Attorney at an international law firm in the field of acquisition finance
• 2009 – 2015 Attorney at GSK Stockmann + colleagues in banking and capital markets law

Languages

• German
• English

Areas of practice

• Inheritance law and wealth succession planning
• Execution of a will
• General civil law

Education and professional career

• Long-term activity in the administration
• Studied at the University of Passau and Augsburg
• 2007 – 2015 Lawyer in a medium-sized law firm in the field of inheritance law, tenancy law and general civil law

Languages

• German
• English
• French
• Italian

Areas of practice

• Real estate law
• Law of building contracts
• Architectural and engineering law
• Law of project management
• Law of property developers
• Brokerage law
• Tenancy law
• General contract law

Studies and professional career

• Studied law and music in Freiburg and Munich
• Following his studies activity in a large law firm for several years
• 2010- 2015 Lawyer and partner in a mid-size law firm
• Since 2013 Specialist Lawyer for Construction and Architects Law

Languages

• German
• English
• French

Areas of practice

• Banking and finance law
• Business administration and corporate law
• European law, competition law in Europe

Education and professional career

• Studies at the universities of Munich and Würzburg, Ph.D.
• Public Prosecutor in Munich
• Civil servant at the Bavarian Ministry of Finance and Economics
• Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2002
• Chairman of the Working Group Economy of the CDU / CSU fraction in the Bundestag
• Federal Minister of Finance
• Chairman of the Christian Social Union
• Compliance Monitor at Siemens from 2008 to 2012, Memberships in supervisory boards and advisory boards

Languages

• German
• English

Areas of practice

• Public economic law
• Banking law
• European law

Education and professional career

• Studied law at the University of Munich
• Dipl.-Ing. (FH) graduate in engineering in aircraft construction
• Department manager at a company from the information technology and telecommunications sector
• 1999 – 2008 Member of the European Parliament
• 2008 – 2013 Member of the Bavarian State Parliament (Landtag)
• since 2013 Member of the German Bundestag

Languages

• German
• English

Areas of practice

• Public building law
• Real Estate law
• Urban development contracts
• Municipal law and law of rates
• Public procurement law
• Constitutional law
• Litigation

Education and professional career

• Legal studies at the University of Munich.
• Assistant of the chair in public law at the University of Munich.
• 2004 Experience abroad with a law firm in the U.S.A.
• 2005 – 2016 Lawyer with a national and international law firm focussing on public real estate law.
• With WAIGEL RECHTSANWÄLTE since 2017.

Languages

• German
• English
• Spanish

Memberships
Member of the working partnership for administrative law of the German Lawyer Association (committee of Bavaria).

Publications
Das Bayerische Staatsziel des Natur- und Kulturgüterschutzes und der Gleichheitssatz im Spiegel bayerischer Gesetzgebung und aktueller Entscheidungen, BayVBl. 2009, S. 353 ff.

Lectures
Guest lectures with the Bayerischer Gemeindetag Kommunal-GmbH about state aided broad band, public procurement procedure and benefit law.

Areas of practice

• real estate law
  • real estate transactions (sale and selling property)
  • legal due diligence in real estate
  • drafting and negotiating property sales contracts
• private building and construction law
• right of private and commercial rental contracts
• inheritance law

Education and professional career

• Benedictine grammar school Schäftlarn
• Uppingham School, Uppingham, UK
• study of law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• 2011 – 2017 lawyer with GASSNER RECHTSANWÄLTE, Munich

Languages

• German
• English

Areas of practice

• Banking Supervisory law (KWG, CRD IV, MaRisk etc.)
• Capital markets law including prospectus law (MiFID II, WpPG, KAGB etc.)
• Financial distribution law (MiFID II, WpHG, MaComp etc.)
• Capital Investment and investment law in the area of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds (AIFM, KAGB etc.)
• Applications for licenses und ownership control procedures for financial institutions
• Digital Banking (FinTech) and Crowdfunding
• Sustainable Finance

Education and professional career

• Studied at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg and Universidad de Granada
• Research assistant at the chair for public law and European law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
• Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main with stations among others in Würzburg and Tel Aviv
• 2016 – 2019 employee at Deloitte in Munich and Frankfurt am Main

Languages

• German
• English

Areas of practice

• Individual labor law
• Family law
• Inheritance law and wealth succession planning
• General civil law

Education and professional career

• Studied law at University of Augsburg
• Legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich with station among others in Dubai
• 2016 – 2019 lawyer in a law firm in Augsburg in the field of family law, insolvency administration and general civil law
• Successful completion of the theoretical part of the specialist attorney training for family law (2016)
• Successful completion of the theoretical part of the specialist attorney training for labor law (2021)

Languages

• German
• English