Dr Hendrik Müller-Lankow
German Attorney at Law, LL.M. (UCL)
Hendrik Müller-Lankow, a German Attorney at Law and founder of Kronsteyn, is a legal expert in German and European financial market law. He provides in-depth advice and guidance to securities and custodian institutions, market operators, and investment companies on all regulatory aspects of their business activities.
His advisory services cover the legal development and implementation of innovative and complex business models and fund structures – including those in the retail sector. This includes legal opinions, contracts, general terms and conditions, consumer information, and prospectuses. In addition, he engages in strategic interactions with regulatory authorities, oversees licensing and other approval processes, and represents his clients before German courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Hendrik Müller-Lankow stands for expert legal counsel and a commitment to guiding his clients safely through the complexities of financial market regulation.
Career
Founded Kronsteyn in 2018 and since then has been independently advising institutions, fund initiators and other market participants on German financial market law. Associate at a German branch of a top-tier US law firm specialising in tax and capital markets law since 2015. University education: Studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with a focus on tax law (Ref. jur.), postgraduate studies at University College London with a focus on financial services law (LL. M.), dissertation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on market making (Dr. jur.) and studied economics at the FernUniversität in Hagen with a focus on tax and finance (B. Sc.).
Publications
Müller-Lankow, Disruptions in securities transactions and their regulation under CSDR, SSR, stock exchange law, ICMA and BGB (German: Leistungsstörungen bei Wertpapiergeschäften und deren Regulierung nach CSDR, SSR, Börsenrecht, ICMA und BGB), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2024, pp. 1641-1649. Müller-Lankow, Market-making in the scope of collective asset management – a paradox? – At the same time comment on the judgement of the VGH Kassel of 21.11.2023 - 6 A 1658/18 (German: Market-Making im Rahmen der kollektiven Vermögensverwaltung – Ein Widerspruch? – Zugleich Anmerkung zum Urteil des VGH Kassel v. 21.11.2023 – 6 A 1658/18), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2024, pp. 601-607. Müller-Lankow, How the regulation of settlement delays is putting securities trading to the test (German: Wie die Regulierung von Lieferverzögerungen den Wertpapierhandel auf die Probe stellt), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2024, pp. 567-568. Müller-Lankow/Liebscher, Legal differences between e-money and asset-referenced tokens (German: Rechtliche Unterschiede zwischen E-Geld- und vermögenswertereferenzierten Token), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2024, pp. 1152-1160. Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, Commentary on § 26b (Tick size) and 26c (Market making systems) of the German Stock Exchange Act (BörsG), in: Eberhard Schwark / Daniel Zimmer (eds.), Kapitalmarktrechts-Kommentar, 5th ed., München (C.H. Beck) 2020. Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, The Multilateral Single-dealer System – An Oxymoron under MiFID II?, in: Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 34 (2019), issue 9, pp. 301-310. Müller-Lankow, Market-making: A regulatory analysis of market-making in multilateral and bilateral systems (German: Market-Making: Eine aufsichtsrechtliche Analyse des Market-Makings im Rahmen multilateraler und bilateraler Systeme), Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2018. Müller-Lankow, Differentiation between proprietary trading by market makers and proprietary trading by other liquidity providers (German: Abgrenzung des Eigenhandels durch Market-Maker vom Eigengeschäft durch sonstige Liquiditätsgeber), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2017, pp. 2335-2345. Kumpan/Müller-Lankow, Single-market maker systems in the new capital market regulation – differentiation between multilateral and bilateral systems (German: Ein-Market-Maker-Systeme in der neuen Kapitalmarktregulierung – Abgrenzung zwischen multilateralen und bilateralen Systemen) (together with Prof Dr Christoph Kumpan), in: Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 2017, pp. 1777-1786.