Dr. Alexander Bauer, LL.M. (King’s College London)

Associate

Dr Alexander Bauer, LL.M., advises banks, payment service providers, fintechs as well as crypto and technology companies on all aspects of German and European banking and banking regulatory law. A particular focus of his practice lies in capital markets and financial services law, as well as the regulatory support of digital business models. In addition, he advises companies on regulatory matters in the field of crypto-assets, blockchain and DLT-based business models, tokenisation, and current European regulatory initiatives.

Alexander publishes regularly on regulatory and digitalisation law topics. He is also a contributing author to the legal handbook Web3 published by Beck (Tann / Ruttloff / Wagner / Scherenberg), addressing legal issues relating to blockchain-based tokens.

Vita

  • Since 2026: Annerton Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin.
  • 2025–2026: A&O Shearman, Frankfurt.
  • 2022–2024: Legal clerkship (Rechtsreferendariat), Kammergericht Berlin, including placements inter alia at Taylor Wessing and Greenberg Traurig.
  • 2021–2022: LL.M. studies at King’s College London, UK.
  • 2019–2025: Consultant at the Blockchain Real-World Laboratory of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Sankt Augustin.
  • 2019–2021: Doctorate at the University of Münster under Prof Dr Thomas Hoeren on the topic “The Effective Individual and Collective Enforcement of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies” (published by Duncker & Humblot), alongside work at Taylor Wessing and Allen & Overy (later A&O Shearman).
  • 2012–2018: Studies in law, University of Bayreuth.

Expertise

  • Banking regulatory law
  • Banking law
  • E-commerce
  • Financial services law
  • Anti-money laundering law
  • Crypto & digitalisation
  • Payment services regulatory law
  • Payment services law

Publications

  • 2026: Contributing author to Web3 Legal Handbook (Tann / Ruttloff / Wagner / Scherenberg), Beck.
  • 2023: “Blockchain-based autonomous insurance – permissibility without authorisation by BaFin?”, VersR 2023, 1141 (together with Lukas Friehoff and Joschua Fiedler).
  • 2023: “The enforcement and bankruptcy of blockchain-based assets (crypto-assets)”, in The Monetarization of Technical Data, Springer Nature.
  • 2022: The Effective Individual and Collective Enforcement of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies, Duncker & Humblot.
  • 2019: “Open Source Compliance and Litigation”, CB 2019, 285 (together with Jonathan Kropp).
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