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Elena Vadolas (née Bachmann)

Counsel
Frankfurt
About

Elena Vadolas has vast experience in banking supervisory law, investment law and asset management. She also covers the FinTech sector.

As part of the strategic financial group planning, her advice focuses on licensing issues, the planning, structuring and coordination of complex international shareholder control procedures for financial and conglomerate groups (including due diligence in M&A transactions in the financial sector) as well as on fundamental issues in cross-border transactions, in particular within the ambit of the so-called "Brexit planning" (notification procedure for branches and cross-border activities, booking models, substance requirements for regulated companies, MaRisk amendment 2017).

In addition, the banking supervisory advice encompasses all issues relating to the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), product structuring and classification in accordance with the CRR (Basel III) and mandates driven by resolution law (BRRD, SRMR, SAG).

In the area of investment law, Elena deals with fundamental questions of investment and structural planning (eg platforms) as well as questions in the case of investment by insurance companies and pension funds (Solvency II, AnlV).

Areas of FocusFinancial ServicesTechnology
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwältin admitted with Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising several UK and international retail and wholesale banking and asset management groups on the business impacts of Brexit and EEA access options, including the licensing procedures for several new German-based subsidiaries
  • Advising a German automotive bank with regard to group-wide re-organisation of banking business and financial services in Germany and EU-wide
Languages
  • German
  • English
Education
  • Regional Court of Darmstadt, Second State Examination, 2015
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, First State Examination, 2013

Awards

  • Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers 2024/2025: Recommended for banking and finance law.

Publications

Elena regularly acts as author of academic standard reference works in the field of financial supervisory law:

  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E. (2019), Section 1 German Investment Code (definitions), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing
  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E. (2019), Section 30 German Investment Code (liquidity management), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing
  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E. (2019), Section 31 German Investment Code (prime broker), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing
  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E. (2019), Section 168 German Investment Code (valuation), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing
  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E. (2018), Legal handbook on the German Capital Investment Code, Assmann/Wallach/Zetzsche, (Dr. Otto Schmidt Publishing), Commenting the depositary regime for AIFs and UCITS
  • Kunschke D. / Bachmann E., Section 165 German Investment Code (minimum content of prospectus), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing, 2018
  • Herring F. / Kunschke D. / Bachmann E., "Lizenzleihe" und Robo-Advice - Eine Einführung, author in Kunschke D. / Schaffelhuber K., FinTech - Grundlagen - Regulierung - Finanzierung - Case Studies, Erich Schmidt publishing http://www.esv.info/978-3-503-17725-7, 2018
  • Bachmann E. / Kunschke D., Section 162 German Investment Code (terms of investment), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing, 2018
  • Bachmann E. / Kunschke D., Section 167 and Section 170 German Investment Code (information by means of a durable medium and publication of the issue and redemption prices and the net asset value), author in: Beckmann/Scholtz/Vollmer, Investment, loose-leaf service, Erich Schmidt publishing, 2018

Prior Experience

Before Elena joined DLA Piper, she worked for another international law firm based in Frankfurt am Main as Associate from 2015 until 2018.

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