Kater Legal Services.
Legal Advice in Special Situations.

Lawyer and senior management advisor for banks and regulated entities in special situations - restructurings, insolvencies, wind-downs and solvent liquidations. 

I work with clients directly. 

My experience across an insolvency boutique, an international law firm, a wind-down institution and my own firm specialising in bank resolution gives me a practical perspective on special situations that extends beyond conventional legal advisory work, with particular expertise in restructuring, insolvency and bank resolution.

SERVICES

Legal advice and (interim) legal management in special situations for the finance industry, in particular:

Legal Advice to Senior Management on restructurings and wind-downs of financial institutions, insolvencies, debt collection and enforcement, portfolio transfers (NPL/PL) and risk transfers, asset-liability-management transactions, derivatives, as well as general asset management and transaction management.

Interim Legal In-House Counseling for Legal and Compliance Departments: Taking over management positions (General Counsel, Compliance Officer), advice to Senior Management on department-structuring and on specific strengthenings of existing teams.  

EXPERIENCE

Since 2015:
Independent Lawyer in own practice

2023 - current:
Head of Legal & Compliance (ext.) OWH SE i.L. (former VTB Bank (Europe) SE), Frankfurt

2015 – 2022:
Legal Counsel/Director at FMS Wertmanagement, Munich

2010 – 2015:
Associate und Managing Associate at Linklaters, Frankfurt, Finance Division

2005 – 2009:
Legal Assistant/Legal Counsel at Brinkmann & Partner, Hanover

REFERENCES

OWH SE i.L. (former VTB Bank (Europe) SE), WDB Abwicklungs AG i.L. (former Wirecard Bank AG), FMS Wertmanagement AöR (former Hypo Real Estate Group), DEPFA Bank plc, Erste Abwicklungsanstalt AöR (former WestLB)

BACKGROUND

2017 – 2019:
University of Münster, Centrum für Unternehmensrechnung (in cooperation with Tongji University, Shanghai, China) – Executive Master of Business Administration

2007 – 2011:
University of Bielefeld – PhD Studies

2008 – 2010:
Higher Regional Court Celle, Lower Saxony – Legal Traineeship and Second State Exam

2007:
First State Exam, Lower Saxony

2001 – 2007:
University of Freiburg/Breisgau and University of Hanover

Dr. Navid Kater
Legal Services
Eschersheimer Landstr. 6 · 60322 Frankfurt · Germany 
M +49 172 1551521