Kristin Lyaskova, LL.M. Finance

Manager Frankfurt am Main

Financial Services

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PwC Legal

Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37

60327 Frankfurt am Main

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Tel. +49 69 9585-3020

Mobile +49 151 50691934

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Qualification

Registered European Lawyer (Frankfurt)
Solicitor (Ireland) since 2022
Solicitor (England & Wales) since 2021
Attorney at Law (New York) since 2020

Expertise

EU and international financial service providers (banks, investment service providers, asset managers)
FinTech firms, including crypto-asset service providers
Financial market infrastructure providers
Capital market transactions

Languages

English
Bulgarian
German

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About me

Kristin Lyaskova has experience advising international clients on corporate governance topics as well as on cross-border capital markets and banking transactions. She also advises on regulatory and supervisory priorities of the European Supervisory Authorities as well as assists financial services firms and non-financial corporates with drafting policy documents and required corporate disclosures as well as banks, MiFID firms and payment service providers with their license applications. As a New York Attorney as well as an English and Irish Solicitor she also advises on structured finance issuances, in particular securitisations as well as capital markets transactions in particular securities financing transactions and derivatives, with a particular focus on ISDA documentation. She advises as well as frequently publishes on issues in a cross-comparative law and regulatory compliance practice context in relation to financial markets transactions and supervisory policymaking.

Memberships

Member, Frankfurt am Main Bar Association
Member, New York State Bar Association
Member, Law Society of England & Wales
Member, Law Society of Ireland

Career

Since 2021: PwC Legal, Frankfurt am Main
Until 2021: Trainee at a global law firm, Frankfurt am Main
Until 2018: LL.M. Finance, Institute for Law and Finance, Frankfurt am Main
2017: Intern at a global law firm, Frankfurt am Main
Until 2016: Intern at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Until 2014: LL.B. Law with European Legal Studies, King’s College London, UK, with Erasmus year abroad at Heidelberg University, Germany

Publications

Co-author, “EU Update: Report on Recent Developments in EU Law”, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 2022
Co-author, “What Are US Opportunity Zones (OZs) and Could They Be a Catalyst for the EU’s Efforts on the Capital Markets Union (CMU), the European Green Deal and the Covid-19 Recovery?”, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 2021
Co-author, “What never lived cannot be put to rest? Advocate General Bobek’s Opinion on the Status of “soft law” in the EU”, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 2021
Co-author, “SBBS Regulation Proposal under Way: Will the Eurozone’s Sovereign Bond-backed Securities Come into Existence?”, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 2019
Co-author, “Bundling Bonds as Safe Assets: An Update on the Eurozone’s Sovereign Bond-backed Securities Proposal”, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 2018