Trust and performance – Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services 

A/L/M Part­ners’ lawy­ers have repre­sen­ted banks and finan­cial ser­vices pro­vi­ders both in mat­ters invol­ving stra­te­gic risks (e.g. ABS tran­sac­tions or cum-ex dis­pu­tes) and in their day-to-day busi­ness, e.g. in the enforce­ment of loan- or gua­ran­tee claims, in the defence against claims asser­ted by con­trac­tu­al part­ners and insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tors in cri­sis situa­tions, and in rela­ti­on to the banks’ dis­pu­te reso­lu­ti­on clau­ses, which have incre­asing­ly come under the courts’ scrutiny.

Relevant matters include:

Repre­sen­ta­ti­on of a US invest­ment firm against a Euro­pean tra­ding plat­form for cur­ren­cy tran­sac­tions due to a tech­ni­cal­ly incor­rect exe­cu­ti­on of a transaction

Repre­sen­ta­ti­on of a bank in court pro­cee­dings for direc­tors’ lia­bi­li­ty due to threa­tening exis­ten­ti­al dama­ge cau­sed by ABS invest­ments made befo­re the sub­prime crisis

Repre­sen­ting a Ger­man bank in a dis­pu­te against a Euro­pean foot­ball league over the finan­cing of a foot­ball club

Repre­sen­ting the Ger­man sub­si­dia­ry of a major Euro­pean bank in a lawsu­it against claims asser­ted by a cus­to­mer for alle­gedly ter­mi­na­ting a loan agree­ment in breach of contract

Repre­sen­ting the Ger­man sub­si­dia­ry of a major Euro­pean bank against the cal­ling of a high gua­ran­tee in con­nec­tion with a fai­led con­s­truc­tion project

Repre­sen­ting and advi­sing an inter­na­tio­nal bank in con­nec­tion with a capi­tal mar­kets dis­pu­te against the regu­la­tors befo­re the Indi­an courts on issues of man­da­to­ry offers and alle­ged claims for damages

Repre­sen­ting a Ger­man bank in a lawsu­it against the insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tor of two com­pa­nies for alle­gedly ter­mi­na­ting cre­dit lines in breach of contract

Repre­sen­ting a Ger­man bank in a lawsu­it against a Ger­man real estate deve­lo­per about loan defaults

Advi­sing various EU and UK-based banks on asym­me­tric dis­pu­te reso­lu­ti­on clau­ses and the recent case law of the BGH and the ECJ

Repre­sen­ta­ti­on of an ener­gy sup­pli­er in a cla­im for dama­ges against a pro­vi­der of cre­dit rating ser­vices due to incor­rect cre­dit ratings