Marc V. Kramer

mkramer@cm-p.com
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Frankfurt Office

Practice

Marc V. Kramer, partner of Curtis London based in the Firm’s Frankfurt Office, is part of the Corporate International Department concentrating on financial markets, investment management and general corporate matters. As a specialty, Mr. Kramer advises associations, clubs and individual athletes on German and international sports law and regulations, in particular in the soccer arena. He also regularly practices out of the Firm’s London and New York offices.

With particular experience representing German and non-German financial institutions and corporations in a range of investment banking and corporate finance transactions, Mr. Kramer is often called on for structuring, documentation and regulatory advice. His experience includes securitization, credit derivatives and distressed debt, securities offerings, mezzanine finance and mergers & acquisitions.

As part of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost’s highly regarded International Funds Practice Group, Mr. Kramer advises U.S., European and German funds, investment managers and investors on EU and German investment laws and regulations. His expertise comprises all aspects of structuring, documenting, operation and listing of funds and investment companies.

Mr. Kramer is fluent in German, French and English, and has studied and worked extensively in these languages. He is a German-qualified lawyer (Rechtsanwalt), admitted to the Frankfurt Bar Association. Previously Mr. Kramer was a senior associate in financial markets with the law firm of Simmons & Simmons, practicing in both London and Frankfurt. He had started his professional career in 1999 when he joined the financial services’ arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Frankfurt.

Speaking Engagements and Recent Media Interviews.

• Interview, “We See the Trends - Hedge Funds Investing in Private Equity,” (together with Carl A. Ruggiero and Thomas Laurer), Hedgework News, Issue 11, November 2006
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  (German, .pdf, large file/slow download)
• “Convergence of Hedge Funds and Private Equity - Legal Aspects of an International Trend,” (together with Carl A. Ruggiero and Thomas Laurer), Hedgework, Frankfurt, November 2006
• “Legal Aspects of Distressed Debt Transactions in Germany,” Handelsblatt Financial Trainings, Frankfurt, March 2004 and Munich, October 2004
• “Asset-backed Securities for Mid-sized German Companies - Legal and Tax Aspects,” Unternehmensforum Düsseldorf, July 2004
• “Legal Structures of Alternative Financing for German Mid-Sized Companies,” Rheingauer Gesprächsforum, September 2003

Publications

• “Dubai: New Fund Regulations to Open ‘Flood Gates’?,” Alternative Investment Quarterly, Second Quarter, 2006
• “Investor Protection Improvement Act amends German Securities Trading Law - Effects on exchange-listed companies,” Kapitalmarktstrategie - Erfolgsfaktoren für börsennotierte Gesellschaften (Wiesbaden, May 2006, 1st ed.)
• Co-authored with Thomas Laurer, “SEC-Pflicht für Hedgefonds zieht international Kreise,” Böersenzeitung, February 8, 2006
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• “The Revised German Securities Trading Act on the Basis of the New German Investor Protection Improvement Act - Implications for Exchange-listed Companies,” in Success Factors for Exchange-listed Companies (Wiesbaden, Gabler-Verlag, 2005)
• Co-author, “Asset-backed Securities: Securitization and Structured Products,” The IFLR Guide to Germany 2003 (pp. 37-42)

Languages
German, English, French