Practice Areas

  • Advising banks, financial service providers, investment fund managers and institutional investors on financial and insurance regulatory issues
  • Set-up and structuring of financial instruments such as investment funds, securitisations, bonds, structured finance and mezzanine financing
  • Capital market and stock exchange law
  • Advising on electronic payment services
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Education and Professional Experience
  • Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2022
  • Admitted to practise law in Germany (2022)
  • Trainee lawyer with the Higher Regional Court Munich
  • Law studies at the LMU Munich
  • Doctorate from the University of Regensburg
  • Visiting Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh with guest lectures inter alia at the University of Oxford and the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
  • Certified Stock Exchange Trader Cash Market, Capital Markets Academy, Deutsche Börse
  • Worked during PhD and studies, inter alia, in an international law firm in the banking and finance practice in Munich and Luxembourg as well as in the legal department of an international company in Munich and London
Languages
  • English, French, German
Memberships
  • Bankrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V.
Lectures and events
  • Legal & Documentation in Securitisation – Securitisation Special Purpose Vehicles, TSI Training, 22.02.2024, Frankfurt am Main
  • Legal & Documentation in Securitisation – Securitisation Special Purpose Vehicles, TSI Training, 18.07.2023, Frankfurt am Main
  • Working Capital Financing mit Supply Chain Finance – Trends & News, 22.09.2022, TSI Kongress, Berlin
  • The degree of discretion in the Brussels I Regulation (Recast), 01.12.2021, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
  • Articles 33 and 34 of the Brussels I Regulation (Recast) and other discretional elements, 25.11.2021, Conflict of Laws Discussion Group, University of Oxford
  • Discretional elements in the Brussels I Regulation (Recast), 23.11.2021, Commercial Law Reading Group, University of Edinburgh
Publications
  • Gerhards, Sebastian / Freytag, Martin: Umfassende Umsatzsteuerbefreiung für die Verwaltung von alternativen Investmentfonds geplant, in: Börsen-Zeitung vom 02.06.2023, S. 8 f.
  • Bernau, Timo Patrick / Freytag, Martin: Dank eWpG im Aufwind, in: Finance-Magazin, Finance Sonderbeilage März/April 2023, Seite 30 f.
  • Freytag, Martin: Make-Whole-Klauseln in Anleihebedingungen, in: BKR 2022, 702-711
  • Bachmeier, Tobias / Freytag, Martin: Discretional elements in the Brussels Ia Regulation, Journal of Private International Law (2022) 18:2, 296-316
  • Freytag, Martin: Ein eigener Rechtsrahmen für nachhaltige Verbriefungen, in: Börsen-Zeitung, Ausgabe vom 23. Juli 2022, Seite 9
  • Bachmeier, Tobias / Freytag, Martin: Anmerkung zu OLG Bremen, Urteil vom 12.05.2021 – 1 U 22/20: Haftung des Anlageberaters für erkennbare Mängel des Anlagekonzepts bei Containerinvestments, in: EWiR 2021, 559-560.
  • Freytag, Martin: Vermögenstrennung bei True Sale Verbriefungen – Die insolvenzferne Ausgestaltung von Verbriefungszweckgesellschaften de lege lata und de lege ferenda unter Berücksichtigung des luxemburgischen Rechts, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2021.
  • Bachmeier, Tobias / Freytag, Martin: Anmerkung zu OLG Frankfurt a.M., Beschluss vom 15.6.2020 – 17 U 272/19: Zur Haftung der Clearstream Banking AG, in: BKR 2020, 595-597.
  • Bernau, Timo Patrick / Freytag, Martin: Die Digitalisierung von Wertpapieren schreitet voran, in: Deutsch-Italienische Handelskammer (AHK Italien), Newsletter Recht & Steuern, 145. Ausgabe, Oktober 2020.
  • Bachmeier, Tobias / Freytag, Martin: RIW-Kommentar zu EuGH, Urteil vom 09.07.2020, C-343/19, in: RIW 2020, 606-608.
  • Bachmeier, Tobias / Freytag, Martin: Neues zum europäischen Deliktsgerichtsstand bei reinen Vermögensschäden im internationalen Warenverkehr, in: RIW 2020, 337-342.
  • Freytag, Martin / Bachmeier, Tobias: Vorteilsausgleichung beim Schadensersatz wegen fehlerhafter Anlageberatung – Grenzen einer einheitlichen Schadensbetrachtung, in: BKR 2020, 174-182.
  • Lorenz, Philippe / Freytag, Martin: Deutlich verschärfter Umgang mit Zuwendungen, Beitrag in: Börsen-Zeitung, Ausgabe vom 3. Januar 2018, Seite 2.
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Timo Bernau Deal News
03 July 2025

GSK Stockmann advises BayernLB on cross-border financing of electric bus project in Rome

GSK Stockmann provided advice on aspects of capital markets law to BayernLB in connection with a cross-border financing arrangement. It will support the electrification of Rome’...

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Deal News
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GSK Stockmann advises Song Capital on German and Luxembourg law aspects of €702.5 million refinancing of German rehab clinic portfolio

GSK Stockmann advised Song Capital on the refinancing of a portfolio of German rehabilitation clinics, operated by MEDIAN, the largest operator of rehabilitation hospitals in Germ...

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Media review
16 June 2025

Navigating the Future of Banking and Finance: Key Trends and Regulatory Changes

The financial sector is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by technological innovation, regulatory reforms, and economic volatility. These key developments are shaping th...

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02 May 2024

Promotion Senior Associates 2024

Congratulations to our twelve outstanding lawyers who have recently been promoted to Senior Associate

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GSK Updates
12 February 2024

Green securitisations under the new European Green Bonds Regulation

Published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 30 November 2023, the Regulation on European Green Bonds (EU Green Bond Standard – EUGBS) provides the first-ever harmo...

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GSK Updates
05 May 2023

Comprehensive VAT exemption for management of alternative investment funds (AIFs) planned in Germany

The draft bill of the German Future Financing Act was published on 12 April 2023. Whereas the management of only certain investment funds was PReviously exempt from VAT, this amend...

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Deal News
16 February 2023

GSK Stockmann advises Siemens on crypto securities bond

This is the first issuance of a crypto security by a DAX 40 company in the million euro range.

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