Jörg Fried

Dr. Jörg Fried

Capital Markets Partner, Berlin

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Jörg specialises in advising banks and corporates on all legal aspects in the area of financial derivatives, clearing of financial derivatives, repo and securities lending transactions as well as commodity derivatives and commodity trading (in particular energy trading). He has more than 20 years’ experience in advising clients in this area.

Jörg is rated as one of the leading lawyers in the area structured finance and derivatives (Chambers Europe 2023, IFLR 1000 2023).

Professional experience

Jörg Fried has been working as a lawyer since 1997. He worked for the predecessor firm Oppenhoff & Rädler from 1999 and was elected Counsel at Linklaters in 2005 and Partner in 2021.

Education and qualifications

Jörg completed his training as a banker in 1987 and then studied law at the Universities of Geneva and Tübingen, where he also later obtained his doctorate. He has been admitted as a Solicitor for England and Wales since 1999.

He speaks German and English.