Eva Schneider is an associate in our global transactions group and specialises in finance law and financial services regulation.
Her practice covers both transactions in all areas of finance, from loans to structured products, and advisory work. Eva has a wide range of financial regulatory experience and regularly helps clients navigate complex regulatory and risk issues, including in the areas of banking, payment, investment, and insurance regulation. She also supports clients in the financial sector in the context of M&A transactions and restructurings, on investigations and disputes, as well as in regulatory proceedings.
Eva has spent six months on secondment to the world's largest mobile payment service provider and has also been seconded to our Frankfurt office. She is a member of the firm's global fintech core team and CEE country group.
Eva has written for a number of legal journals and regularly presents on matters of finance, financial regulation, as well as developments at the intersection of technology and financial services.
She speaks German, English, French, and Italian.
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- Advising regional and international credit, payment and e-money institutions, investment firms and insurance companies on regulatory matters (such as capital requirements, governance, outsourcing, AML, fit & proper, remuneration, or conduct rules) on an ongoing basis, including in related investigations and proceedings.
- Advising global asset management and investment firms as well as payment service providers on the sale of parts of their European business.
- Advising a major Austrian bank on the passporting of its banking license in the course of the establishment of a branch in Germany.
- Advising a CEE-based bank and its affiliates on the true sale securitisation of loan and lease receivables in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria.
- Advising an Austrian holding company in the automotive sector on €500m Schuldscheine with 84 primary investors.
- Advising UniCredit Bank Austria AG and 17 other lenders on a €477.2m facility provided to refractory market leader RHI AG for the acquisition of Brazil-based Magnesita Refratários S.A.
- Advising a Russian bank group on a €119m loan granted to a European real estate investor in connection with the acquisition of a prime real estate in Vienna.
- Advising a car manufacturer on the largest restructuring of a Portuguese non-bank group in the country's history.
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Education
- Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria – economics, focus banking and finance (Master of Science)
- University of Graz, Austria – law (Magistra iuris)
- University of Graz, Austria – business administration (Bachelor of Science)
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy – international economics, exchange semester
- Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France – international relations and European affairs, exchange year
Professional qualification
- Rechtsanwältin, Vienna bar, Austria
Professional experience
Before joining the firm, Eva worked in the European Parliament’s legal service (economic and monetary affairs) in Brussels, the Austrian trade commission in Seoul, an Austria-based bank as well as courts and authorities in Vienna.
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