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About Alicia Hildner

Alicia is a financial services Counsel in our Global Transaction group

Alicia advises financial institutions and unregulated companies on all aspects of banking regulatory law, particularly FinTech companies such as neo-brokers, e-money institutions and payment service providers on all aspects of their business models, including licensing requirements, financing rounds, governance issues and ongoing regulatory requirements. She regularly assists companies in M&A transactions. In addition, she focuses on payment services and payment infrastructure law as well as securities services.

Alicia regularly publishes articles and other papers and gives presentations/trainings for clients, among others, in the areas of payment services and money laundering law.

She speaks German, English and French.

Recent work

  • Advising JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. on the merger of its continental European business into J.P. Morgan SE
  • Advice on the merger of DVB Bank SE with DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank
  • Advising KfW and the Federal Republic of German on stabilising energy group Uniper
  • Advising gategroup on the outsourcing of pension liabilities to Funding Solutions Germany
  • Advising Upvest Securities GmbH on obtaining its license as a securities firm
  • Advising Hellman&Friedman and GIC on the acquisition of the payment services provider Concardis
  • Advising Cazoo, a leading UK online car retailer, on the acquisition of Cluno, the leading German provider of car subscription services
  • Advising a leading automotive company on the establishment of an e-money platform
  • Advising HSH Nordbank in the context of the ECB's comprehensive review and other regulatory matters
  • Advising Funding Circle in connection with its IPO
  • Advising banking groups on their Brexit restructurings
  • Advising third country banks in the context of their cross-border operations
  • Advising financial institutions vis-à-vis BaFin and the ECB

 

Qualifications

Education

  • University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • Université I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
  • Legal assistant at the Freshfields' office in Frankfurt 
  • Legal traineeship at the Freshfields office in Frankfurt and in New York, U.S.
  • Secondment at State Street International GmbH

Publications

  • DZWIR 2015 (6), 251 et seqq. Die Sanierung, Abwicklung und Insolvenz von Banken – Ein vollendeter Dreiklang?

  • BKR 2016, 485 et seqq. Bitcoins auf dem Vormarsch - Schaffung eines regulatorischen Level Playing Fields?

  • CCZ 2017, 83 et seqq. Der Regierungsentwurf zur Umsetzung der Vierten EU-Geldwäscherichtlinie - Ausweitung der geldwäscherechtlichen Pflichten ausserhalb des Finanzsektors

  • International Banking and Financial Law, 2018 (4), 238 et seqq. Asset transfers through blockchain applications?

  • RdZ 2020, 84 et seqq. Gesteigerte Relevanz des ZAG für Banken nach Umsetzung der PSD II

  • Corporate Finance 2020, 351 et seqq. Open Banking und das Verhältnis von Banken zu FinTechs und BigTechs

  • die Bank 2017 Aktuelle Maßnahmen der Finanzaufsicht 2017

  • BKR 2019, 67 et seqq. Nach dem Pyrrhussieg vor dem KG Berlin - Neue Lösungsansätze zur Regulierung von Bitcoins

  • Corporate Finance 2018, 38 et seqq. Blockchain-Anwendungen für die Unternehmensfinanzierung

  • Kommentar zum ZAG (Schäfer, Omlor, Mimberg) Kommentierung von §§ 53, 54, 56, 57 ZAG

  • die Bank 2023, 4 et seqq. Strenges Risikomanagement und straffe Prozesse werden wichtig

  • RdZ 2022, 90 et seqq. Erlaubnispflichtige Zahlungsdienste in der Plattformökonomie

  • die Bank 2021, 4 et seqq. Regulatory Roadmap 2021 Pandemie-Folgen rücken in den Fokus

  • die Bank 2020, 32 et seqq. Was das Finanzaufsichtstecht für 2020 bereithält

  • die Bank 2019, 28 et seqq. Was plant die Finanzaufsicht für 2019?

  • Bank-Blog 2018 Digital Banking Blockchain-Technologie für die Unternehmensfinanzierung Blockchain kann mehr als nur bezahlen

  • die Bank 2018 Was die Finanzaufsicht für das Jahr 2018 plant