Dr Ute Brunner-Reumann

Dr Ute Brunner-Reumann is an investment and financial regulatory lawyer based in Frankfurt. Her practice covers securities, payment services and banking regulation as well as investment funds law. She focuses on regulatory and transaction-related advice.

Her clients include regulated companies such as credit institutions, financial service providers, payment service providers, and capital management companies, as well as fintechs and unregulated companies.

She brings notable experience in providing regulatory support on clearing and settlement of both, securities and payment transactions. In this context she provides in-depth advice on digitalization issues, including blockchain, crypto assets, and the use of DLT in the financial sector, their regulatory treatment, and the legal requirements for using these technologies.

Her banking regulatory advice covers a broad range of issues relating to authorisation, governance, internal organization and conduct, product structuring and classification under CRR (Basle III) and regulatory advice on reorganisation aspects.

She also advises on investment law issues relating to the launch of AIFs and UCITS, the marketing and distribution of fund products, the internal organization of fund management companies. Furthermore, she regularly advised on the regulatory and contractual aspects of transactions, e.g., real estate transactions, derivatives, securities lending, and aspects of collateral management. One particular focus of her advice in this area is on the duties and organizational requirements of depositary banks.