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

• 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

• 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

Areas of practice

• Contract law and contracting, in particular in the areas of real estate law, law of building contracts, architectural and engineering law, tenancy law and general contract law
• Property transactions (asset and share deals, portfolio transactions)
• Asset management
• Project development
• Representation in national court proceedings with focus on real estate law and corporate law

Education and professional career

• Studied at the University of Munich
• Worked as a lawyer for many years, initially in a leading Munich law firm, then as a partner in a nationwide boutique firm specialising in investment law, from 1999 to 2020 as a partner at GSK Stockmann with focus on real estate law and forensic representation
• until 2018: Chairman of the supervisory board of a listed stock corporation in the real estate industry

Languages

• English

Publications

• Haller, Thomas: Die privatrechtliche Gestaltung öffentlich-rechtlicher Beziehungen am Beispiel der sog. Einheimischenmodelle – Eine kritische Analyse, Rechtswissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung, Bd. 86, Verlag V. Florentz GmbH, München 1986.
• Haller, Thomas: Die Werbung mit dem Zusatz „Inkl. MwSt.“, WRP 1989, S. 5.
• Haller, Thomas: Kriterien bei der Abgrenzung der beschreibenden Angaben einerseits von entsprechenden Zeichen andererseits, GRUR 1989, S. 643.
• Haller, Thomas: Zur Frage der unzulässigen Rabattgewährung durch Kundenkreditkarten, EWiR 1991, S. 252.
• Haller, Thomas: Zur wettbewerbswidrigen Werbung durch den Zusatz „Incl. MwSt.“, EWiR 1990, S. 1129.
• Haller, Thomas: Anlegerschutz und Wettbewerbsrecht, Verlag Heinz Gerlach GmbH, Oberursel 1991.
• Diverse Vortragstätigkeiten insbesondere im Bereich Kapitalanlagerecht