Frank Müller

Frank Müller advises management companies (Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften), institutional investors, asset managers, as well as their regulated and unregulated fund vehicles on regulatory and other legal matters in connection with the launch, structuring, and administration of funds and their acquisitions. In addition, Frank Müller is Managing Partner of McDermott’s Frankfurt office.

He has extensive experience in particular in the following areas:

• Establishment of management companies and comprehensive regulatory advice, including coordination with competent authorities in Germany and abroad.
• Launch of retail and special funds (both contractual structures and corporate vehicles).
• Structuring of funds and transactions for institutional investors and asset managers.
• Regulatory and legal advice to funds, fund managers, and institutional investors on buy-side and sell-side acquisitions.
• Legal and regulatory advice on asset deals, share deals, unit deals, and project developments in Germany and internationally.

Dr. Gregor Evenkamp

Gregor Evenkamp is a Partner in the Munich office of Clifford Chance and a member of the firm’s international Investment Funds & Asset Management practice.

His practice focuses on advising on the structuring and distribution of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds for retail and institutional investors. A particular area of focus is on “fund substitute products,” such as fund-linked securities and securitization transactions.

Gregor is a member of Clifford Chance’s Global ESG Board and the Global Tech Group.

He is an author in several leading commentaries on the German Investment Code (KAGB) and an active member of various industry associations.

Dr. Christian Hillebrand

Dr. Christian Hillebrand is an attorney and one of the five founding partners of Orbit, a boutique law firm specialising in investment funds law. He advises managers and fund management teams of domestic and international private equity and venture capital funds on fund structuring and regulatory matters under fund supervisory law. In addition, he advises institutional, public, and private investors on investments in alternative assets, GP- and LP-led secondary transactions, as well as governance, reporting and compliance matters relating to investment funds.

Christian Sotta

Mr. Sotta is a Director in the Tax & Legal – Financial Services Tax practice at PwC in Munich and has been active for around ten years in the tax structuring of capital investments and investment funds. Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Sotta worked at other leading tax advisory and professional services firms as well as law firms. He is a certified tax advisor and holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science from the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg.