Dr Hendrik Müller-Lankow

• Founder of Kronsteyn in 2018 • Associate at a US top tier law firm, focus on Tax and Financial Markets Law • Admitted to the German Bar since 2015 • Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg (Dr. jur.) • Hanau Regional Court (Second State Examination in Law) • University College London, focus on Financial Services Law (LL. M.) • FernUniversität in Hagen, focus on Taxation and Finance (B. Sc.) • Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, focus on Tax Law (First State Examination in Law)

• Structuring, establishment and distribution support for various private equity/venture capital funds, real estate funds and securities funds. • Comprehensive legal and compliance advice regarding ongoing business operations and new business models for German securities trading firms. • Advising on and legally implementing the market entry of the first German crypto-trading app and related service offerings, including trading, custody and settlement structures, for a major financial services group. • Advising a European exchange group on the establishment of an additional regulated market for securities trading and on the adaptation of custody and settlement infrastructures. • Advising and representing international corporates and financial institutions in various sanctions matters before regulatory authorities and the European Court.

• Müller-Lankow, Legality of Short-Selling Bans on EU Trading Venues, in: Bucerius Law Journal (BLJ) 2026, pp. 1-5 (open-source link)(https://www.kronsteyn.law/en/_files/ugd/6d98e0_154f1894a95d46e09b53c72c21f5bf80.pdf?index=true). • Müller-Lankow/Kollmer, Defence strategies for banks providing investment advice in relation to open-ended property funds with incorrect risk categorisations (German: Verteidigungsstrategien für anlageberatende Banken bei falschen Risikoklassen offener Immobilienfonds), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2025, pp. 721-730. • Müller-Lankow, Comment on the decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 18 March 2025 (XI ZR 59/23) – Blocking of securities accounts due to U.S. sanctions (German: Anmerkung zum Urteil des BGH v. 18.03.2025 (XI ZR 59/23) – Sperrung von Depotbeständen aufgrund von US-Sanktionen), in: Entscheidungsanmerkungen zum Wirtschafts- und Bankrecht (WUB) 2025, pp. 193-197. • Müller-Lankow, Legality of Stock Exchange Short Selling Bans (German: Rechtmäßigkeit börslicher Leerverkaufsverbote), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2025, pp. 433-440. • Müller-Lankow, Disruptions in securities transactions and their regulation under CSDR, SSR, stock exchange law, ICMA and BGB (German: Leistungsstörungen bei Wertpapiergeschäften und deren Regulierung nach CSDR, SSR, Börsenrecht, ICMA und BGB), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2024, pp. 1641-1649. • Müller-Lankow, Market-making in the scope of collective asset management – a paradox? – At the same time comment on the judgement of the VGH Kassel of 21.11.2023 - 6 A 1658/18 (German: Market-Making im Rahmen der kollektiven Vermögensverwaltung – Ein Widerspruch? – Zugleich Anmerkung zum Urteil des VGH Kassel v. 21.11.2023 – 6 A 1658/18), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2024, pp. 601-607. • Müller-Lankow, How the regulation of settlement delays is putting securities trading to the test (German: Wie die Regulierung von Lieferverzögerungen den Wertpapierhandel auf die Probe stellt), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2024, pp. 567-568. • Müller-Lankow/Liebscher, Legal differences between e-money and asset-referenced tokens (German: Rechtliche Unterschiede zwischen E-Geld- und vermögenswertereferenzierten Token), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2024, pp. 1152-1160. • Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, Commentary on § 26b (Tick size) and 26c (Market making systems) of the German Stock Exchange Act (BörsG), in: Eberhard Schwark / Daniel Zimmer (eds.), Kapitalmarktrechts-Kommentar, 5th ed., München (C.H. Beck) 2020. • Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, The Multilateral Single-dealer System – An Oxymoron under MiFID II?, in: Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 34 (2019), issue 9, pp. 301-310. • Müller-Lankow, Market-making: A regulatory analysis of market-making in multilateral and bilateral systems (German: Market-Making: Eine aufsichtsrechtliche Analyse des Market-Makings im Rahmen multilateraler und bilateraler Systeme), Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2018. • Müller-Lankow, Differentiation between proprietary trading by market makers and proprietary trading by other liquidity providers (German: Abgrenzung des Eigenhandels durch Market-Maker vom Eigengeschäft durch sonstige Liquiditätsgeber), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2017, pp. 2335-2345. • Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, Single-market maker systems in the new capital market regulation – differentiation between multilateral and bilateral systems (German: Ein-Market-Maker-Systeme in der neuen Kapitalmarktregulierung – Abgrenzung zwischen multilateralen und bilateralen Systemen) (together with Prof Dr Christoph Kumpan), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2017, pp. 1777-1786.