Kater Legal Services.
Legal Advice in Special Situations.

Senior executive legal counsel and project manager with significant professional experience in the banking and finance industry focusing on financial institutions in special situations, including distressed assets and insolvencies, wind-down scenarios as well as capital markets.

I am a trusted advisor and senior manager creating commercial value and providing personal and excellent legal advice.

Based on experience with a restructuring boutique firm, a major law firm, in-house with a large financial wind-down institution and as an independent lawyer specialised in banks' wind-downs I am familiar with various perspectives of advice and with different stakeholders’ interests.

I am experienced with a broad variety of asset and liability classes and provide legal advice in particular on restructurings, wind-down measures and other special situations with a focus on the financial sector.

SERVICES

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

Legal Advice on restructurings and wind-downs of financial institutions, insolvencies, 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 building up new teams.  

EXPERIENCE

Since 2015:
Independent Lawyer in own practice, Munich

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
Lessingstr. 9 · 80336 Munich · Germany 
M +49 172 1551521