About
Eva Schneider specialises in banking and financial services law and regulation. Her broad practice includes advising banks, payment and e-money institutions, insurance companies, investment firms, asset managers, fintechs and technology companies both on standalone regulatory matters and in connection with M&A and financing transactions, reorganisations, cooperation projects, disputes, investigations and regulatory enforcement actions.
Eva supports clients in navigating complex contractual, compliance and risk issues and represents them in proceedings before authorities such as the Austrian Financial Market Authority and the European Central Bank. She has extensive experience in managing multi-jurisdictional projects involving regulators worldwide, including advising on related strategic matters and legal tech solutions. Another focus of her practice is advising on regulatory and technological change in the financial sector, particularly in relation to AI, DORA, fintech, crypto, AML and ESG matters.
Eva has undertaken secondments to a global mobile payment service provider and to our Frankfurt and Amsterdam offices. As a member of the firm’s Global M&A and Capital practice, Financial Institutions Group, Core Fintech Group, Sustainability Group and CEE country team, she regularly speaks at external and internal conferences and workshops.
She speaks German, English, French and Italian.
VCARD
- Advising Barclays on the sale of its Consumer Bank Europe, a retail banking business with established credit card, consumer loan and deposit franchises serving customers in the German and Austrian markets and gross assets of €4.7 billion, to BAWAG P.S.K.
- Advising Western Union on the $910 million sale of its global "Western Union Business Solutions" business to a private equity consortium of Goldfinch Partners and Baupost Group.
- Advising a global automotive group and its shareholders on notification and approval requirements in over 50 jurisdictions in connection with M&A transactions, corporate reorganisations or licensings.
- Advising a global systemically important bank on regulatory aspects of the transfer of the asset management business of its Austrian branch to another group entity.
- Advising on a tech-based cooperation project aiming to enable interoperability of mobile payment systems across 14 European jurisdictions, including structural, regulatory and contractual advice.
- Advising a global payment and e-money services provider and e-commerce platform on a range of digital products and innovative business ideas, including advising on licensing requirements and customer contracts / terms and conditions (B2B and B2C) across Europe.
- Advising Trade Republic in connection with the expansion and internationalisation of its business.
- Advising one of Austria's largest banks on the passporting of its banking license in the context of the establishment of a branch in Germany.
- Advising a range of banks and virtual asset service providers in proceedings before the FMA and the OeNB relating to alleged non-compliance with AML and sanctions requirements as well as related internal investigations.
- Advising a range of regional and international credit institutions and insurance companies on capital, organisational and other requirements (e.g. own funds and liquidity, governance, policies and procedures, outsourcing, remuneration, fit & proper, conduct rules) on an ongoing basis.
- Advising German and Austrian banks on a range of securitisations and other structured financings, such as (i) a € 100 million asset-backed securitisation via a Luxembourg SPV as well as the SPV's refinancing through notes and a multicurrency credit facility or (ii) a securitisation of lease and loan receivables in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, in each case considering regulatory requirements.
- Advising various originators and sponsors on questions related to the STS and ECB (collateral) eligibility of securitisations.
Eva Schneider
Peregringasse 4
Wien 1090