Practice Areas

  • Outsourced compliance officer for a real estate asset management company, outsourced workbench for the legal department of an asset management company in the securities sector, securing authorisation to operate as an asset management company as well as licence extensions, appointing managing directors including coordination with advisory boards
  • Advising asset management companies, banks, insurance companies and financial service providers as well as institutional investors
  • Advice on regulatory authorisation issues as well as ongoing regulatory compliance
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Education and Professional Experience
  • Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2021
  • For some years Managing director of a securities services investment management company
  • For many years Head of Legal and Compliance departments of investment management companies
  • Admitted to practise law in Germany (2000)
  • Studied at the University of Munich
  • Banker
Languages
  • English, German
Memberships
  • Munich bar association
Awards
  • Certificate of recognition by the international chamber of commerce in Munich, 2013
Publications
  • Brenner, Ralf: Asset Management Trends in Germany 2022, in: International Asset Management and Investment Funds Review 2022/23, Beaumont Capital Markets, 09.03.2022.
  • Brenner, Ralf: Journal for the whole banking in: Substantial changes in the whole asset management industry, 2018.
  • Co-author of the Frankfurt commentary to the German Investment Code, KAGB, in Moritz/Klebeck/Jesch, 2016.
  • Co-author of Market for Securities, Euroforum, 2007.
  • 18 July 2022

    AIFMD review: compromises begin to emerge

    Discussions on the proposals for the upcoming amendments to Directives 2011/61/EU (AIFMD) and 2009/65/EC (UCITS) in relation to outsourcing arrangements, liquidity risk management,...

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  • Media review
    31 March 2022

    Asset Management Trends in Germany 2022

    The German asset management industry has come through the past year well despite uncertain global conditions. 2022 will again present the industry with new challenges.

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  • 24 August 2021

    New marketing rules for investment management companies

    Regulation (EU) 2019/1156 (“Marketing Regulation”) and Germany’s new Fund Location Act have introduced several new marketing rules which had exclusively applied to external d...

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