Prof. Dr. Andreas Früh, Of Counsel

Lawyer, Of Counsel (effective 01.01.2024)

Legal education, legal training and doctorate in Heidelberg and Munich

Admission as lawyer in 1992

1992 to 1993 Lawyer in Munich in the areas of corporate law, commercial law and banking law

1993 to 2023 UniCredit Bank AG (HypoVereinsbank), including almost 20 years as General Counsel and Divisional Head of Legal with responsibility for Europe, USA and Asia (at times also assignment of Compliance), member of the Group Management Team of UniCredit Group, most recently Special Legal Advisor to the Management Board; representation of the bank in external bodies, in particular 10 years as Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Bankers' Association (BdB e.V.)

Main practice areas: Banking and banking supervisory law, corporate law, advice to executive bodies, supervision for structural measures (under stock corporation law), compliance investigations, coordination of complex disputes

Honorary professor for civil law, banking, capital markets and corporate law at the University of Augsburg since 2018

Memberships: Board of the Münchener Juristische Gesellschaft (MJG), Board of the Bankrechtliche Vereinigung (BrV), Legal Committee of the IHK für München und Oberbayern, Legal Committee of the DIHK, Editorial Advisory Board of Recht der Finanzinstrumente (RdF)

Foreign language: English