Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham & Watkins LLP's fintech experts act integrated into the financial institutions group, which is jointly headed by Axel Schiemann (crypto assets and fintech innovations) and Markus Krüger, who is well versed in transaction support to financial and fintech companies. Thanks to the international network, the team regularly acts across borders on behalf of investors, financial institutions and fintech companies and has recently increasingly been instructed by crypto trading platforms. Other mainstays include the advice on blockchain and cryptocurrency, the Payment Service Directive, transactions, data protection and the implementation of new business models; the practice also impresses with client-oriented tools.