Dr. André Hofmann

André specialises in a wide range of German regulatory law, such as supervision of banks and financial services institutions, payment and eMoney institutions (PSD2) as well as on AML/KYC issues. He regularly advises on payment services and eMoney products, on outsourcing requirements and market supervision (eg rules of conduct as set forth by MiFID II or shareholding disclosure obligations) and on licence applications and change of control procedures. He also advises Fintechs on licensing issues and FMIs as well as financial institutions on distributed ledger technology (DLT). He is part of the Linklaters German Digital Economy Group.

Work highlights

His recent experience includes:

• RatePay, real,- Digital and Zalando Payments on licence application as a payment/eMoney institution
• An Asian payment service provider on payment services and eMoney as well as on its market entry into Germany
• Commerzbank: advising on the sale of its Equity Markets and Commodities (EMC) business to Société Générale. 
• Deutsche Börse: advising on the acquisition of 360T.
• RHJI/Kleinwort Benson Group: advising on the purchase of BHF-Bank 
• Deutsche Börse/Eurex: advising on blockchain/ICO projects and crypto assets.
• Clearmatics Technologies and a consortium of financial institutions: advising on their virtual currency project (Utility Settlement Coin) using blockchain technology.

André has been working as a lawyer since 2005. He joined Linklaters in 2007 and was appointed Counsel in 2014. He also completed a secondment at Commerzbank AG and UBS Deutschland AG in Frankfurt am Main.

André studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Saarbrücken and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He also completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Melbourne in Australia. 

He speaks German and English.