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Dr Hendrik Müller-Lankow

Hendrik Müller-Lankow is the founder of Kronsteyn and specialises in advising securities institutions, market operators and fund initiators on all matters relating to securities, investment, payment and crypto law. He advises institutions on the implementation and adaptation of business models, including the assessment of legal issues, the drafting of general terms and conditions and other documents for consumers, interaction with the supervisory authorities including authorisation procedures, the drafting and negotiation of contracts relevant to supervisory law, the drafting of sales documents for AIFs and investments and representation in court proceedings. Hendrik Müller-Lankow is also one of the legal crypto pioneers and provided legal advice to the first two German trading and custody systems for cryptocurrencies in the mass customer business with Kronsteyn.

Advisory Fields

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  • Securities trading and services

  • Market infrastructure and custody

  • Emissions trading system

  • Payment and crypto services

  • Fund administration and distribution

  • Money laundering and sanctions

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Legal Services

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  • Legal structuring

  • Statements and legal opinions

  • Drafting contracts and GTC

  • Coordination with authorities

  • Court and administrative proceedings

  • Compliance audits and training

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Career

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  • Founded Kronsteyn in 2018

  • Admitted to the bar by the Frankfurt Bar Association since 2015 and working for a leading US top-tier law firm with a focus on tax, capital markets and regulatory law.

  • Law studies: Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Ref. jur.), University College London (LL. M.), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. jur.) and studies of economics at the FernUniversität in Hagen (B. Sc.)

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Selected Publications

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Legal differences between e-money and asset-backed tokens (German: Rechtliche Unterschiede zwischen E-Geld- und vermögenswertereferenzierten Token) (together with Sebastian Liebscher), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2024, pp. 1152-1160.

  • Commentary on § 26b (Tick size) and 26c (Market making systems) of the German Stock Exchange Act (BörsG) (together with Prof Dr Christoph Kumpan), in: Eberhard Schwark / Daniel Zimmer (eds.), Kapitalmarktrechts-Kommentar, 5th ed., München (C.H. Beck) 2020.

  • The Multilateral Single-dealer System – An Oxymoron under MiFID II? (together with Prof Dr Christoph Kumpan), in: Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 34 (2019), issue 9, pp. 301-310.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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