Tobias Bastian

Tobias specialises in national and international litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He has particular experience with banking and capital market disputes, such as prospectus and advisory liability cases and mistrade disputes, as well as insolvency and contentious regulatory matters. His other areas of expertise include white-collar crime proceedings, including internal investigations and crisis management.

Tobias is also highly experienced in applying legal tech tools and plays a pivotal role at Linklaters in designing, piloting, and implementing innovative legal tech solutions that enhance the efficiency and quality of client service in dispute resolution and investigations.

Work highlights

• German real estate group: Providing advice on possible D&O liability claims against current and former members of the management boards of various subsidiaries in connection with multiple transactions over a period of several years.

• Major U.S. bank: Providing advice and representation in administrative fine proceedings of BaFin due to the alleged violation of CRR provisions.

• International financial company: Defending our client against various claims for restitution and damages based on allegedly non-executed securities orders due to threatening US sanctions as well as presenting the client in annulment proceedings before the European General Court with respect to the challenge of an exemption under Article 5(2) of the EU Blocking Regulation.

• EY network: Providing advice and representation in a mass proceeding involving corporate liability claims for alleged breaches of duty of care by a German member company.

• German state bank: Providing advice and representation against claims by a municipal special-purpose association based on the alleged nullity of swap contracts concluded.

• International investment bank: Providing advice and representation against alleged indemnification claims by several contracting parties in securities lending transactions who claim to have been deceived about the tax-damaging arrangement underlying the transactions (cum/cum transactions).

Tobias has been working at Linklaters since 2014 and was appointed as Managing Associate in 2019. During his time at Linklaters, he also spent three months working within the compliance department of an international investment bank.

Tobias studied German Law a the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.

He speaks German and Englisch.