Dr Timo Bühler
Dr. Timo Bühler is a partner in the Financial Services Regulatory Team at our Frankfurt office and advises both on business growth opportunities and crisis management issues.
Timo regularly represents domestic and international banks, insurance undertakings, fintechs and market intermediaries in internal and external investigations as well as contentious financial regulatory proceedings. He has significant experience in advising clients from the financial sector and their stakeholders on business combinations, financial restructurings and capital market transactions. Timo also offers regulatory guidance to asset managers and securities institutions and supports them in structuring and establishing investment funds.
- "Our trusted advisor over many years, highly skilled and experienced, always available, pragmatic and consistently calm even in turbulent situations", Client, JUVE 2025, Banking and Financial Regulatory Law
- Rising star in financial services regulation, JUVE 2025
- Listed as a "Rising Star in Regulatory Law" in the JUVE-Handbook Germany 2025
- Listed since 2024 in "Best Lawyers in Germany” for Banking and Finance Law, Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Stifel Europe on the acquisition of Mainfirst Bank AG*
- Tiger Global on the acquisition of a stake in fintech unicorn Mambu*
- the supervisory board of a major German bank on internal investigations in connection with alleged breaches of anti-money laundering rules*
- a consortium of banks on the public offering of shares in Commerzbank AG*
- the insolvency administrator of Wirecard AG on internal investigations in connection with possible falsification of the balance sheet*
- a leading capital management company vis-à-vis BaFin due to suspected compliance violations in connection with insider trading and market manipulation*
- a major Asian bank in a special investigation by BaFin pursuant to § 44 of the German Banking Act (KWG)
- Klarna on the acquisition of Billpay GmbH
- Heidelpay on the entry of the private equity company AnaCap
*before joining Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Sectors
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