Thorsten Voß

dr Thorsten Voß is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice group . He specializes in banking supervisory, capital market and investment law and supports his clients out of court and in proceedings before the supervisory authorities, with a particular focus on the law of digitization.

dr Thorsten Voß, born in Gelsenkirchen, studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster after training as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank AG. There he worked at the Institute for Legal History (Chair Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Reiner Schulze) and did his doctorate with Prof. Dr. hc Reiner Schulze. Thomas Hoeren received his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law with the comparative legal work "Copyright law in Switzerland and Germany as a regulatory model for the Internet economy in a legal comparison".

After his second state examination in Düsseldorf in 2001, Dr. Thorsten Voß initially in Bern as a lawyer for a leading Swiss boutique in IT and telecommunications law. From 2004 he worked for the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), where he led the prospectus group with established and numerous prominent proceedings to punish violations of capital market law. Before joining Schalast, he was a partner in leading national and international law firms in Frankfurt am Main for over 12 years.

dr Thorsten Voß represents domestic and foreign banks, FinTechs, fund initiators and investment companies in all questions of financial supervisory and capital market law.

The focus of his advice is on the investment law structuring and launch of capital investment products as well as the support of asset managers, fund initiators, management companies and financial service providers on regulatory issues. He advises on the design of open and closed investment funds in Germany and abroad for private and institutional investors. In the case of the closed funds, to which Dr. Thorsten Voß advises, these are products from asset classes such as real estate, private equity, renewable energies and infrastructure. He supports domestic capital management companies with licensing issues and all other regulatory issues of the Capital Investment Code (KAGB). He advises foreign asset managers extensively, who are looking for access to the German and European market by offering services such as portfolio management or investment advice for a German investment fund or the distribution of their own fund products in Germany. He supports banks, financial, securities and payment service providers in the context of founding and licensing, outsourcing/insourcing of important functions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions.

In addition, Dr. Thorsten Voß established a practice for the law of FinTechs with a focus on blockchain-based capital investment products.

Next is Dr. Thorsten Voß regularly involved in regulatory change projects such as the implementation of MiFID II/MiFIR and MAR. In addition, he advises both regulated and unregulated companies on the design, introduction or review of group-wide compliance programs as well as on internal investigations and investigations by German and foreign authorities into possible compliance violations.

dr Thorsten Voss moderates and lectures at specialist conferences and has made a name for himself through numerous publications, including as the publisher of capital market law commentaries on the Securities Trading Act (WpHG), the EU Prospectus Regulation and the Securities Prospectus Act (EU Prospectus Regulation and WpPG), the law on alternative investments (includes the Capital Investment Code (KAGB), the Investment Act (VermAnlG), the Investment Ordinance (AnlV), the Solvency II Directive and the Market Abuse Ordinance (MAR)) and the Sales Prospectus Act (VerkProspG) (all at CH Beck) as well as the manual on "Law for FinTechs" in Verlag de Gruyter In addition, he is the founding editor of the "Journal for the law of the digitization of the economy (ZdiW)" at Verlag Wolters Kluwer.

He is a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (lectures on banking supervisory law and legal issues of digitization as part of the Master of Financial Law course ). He is also a lecturer in the specialist lawyer course for banking and capital market law at the WM Group.

He is a member of the German Society for Law and Computer Science (DGRI), the German-Swiss Lawyers' Association (DSJV), the German Lawyers' Association (DAV) and its working group on banking and capital market law and the Marshal Club of the Frankfurt Literature House eV in the Federal Association Blockchain, he is involved in the "Finance" committees and in the "Hesse State Group".