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Hamburg
+49 40 35 52 80-280 +49 40 35 52 80-80 s.pfister@heuking.de
Languages
German, English, French
Practice groups/Expertise
Consulting focuses
- Corporate Finance
- Finance Law
- Financing
- Private Equity
- Public Infrastructure and Large-Scale Projects
- Public Private Partnerships
- Reorganization
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Law
- Commercial Law
- Insolvency Law
- Commercial Contracts
- Acquisition financing
- Corporate finance
- Project financing
- Real estate financing
- Mezzanine/Debt fund financing
- Capital market financing
- Banking Supervision Law
Vita
- Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group
- Admitted to the Bar since1999
- Education and former activities
- Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 2016-2020
- Partner, Kaye Scholer LLP 2011-2016
- Partner (since 2007), Simmons & Simmons LLP 2005-2011
- Shearman & Sterling LLP (Frankfurt, New York) 1999-2005
- University of Sydney (LL.M.)
- University of Bielefeld (legal studies)
Affiliations
- Bankrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V. (German Banking Law Association)
- Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V. (German Federal Wind Energy Association)
- Club europäischer Unternehmerinnen e.V. (German Association of European Women Entrepreneurs)
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung (DAJV) e.V. (German American Lawyers Association)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Sandra Pfister's Distinctions
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024
Best Lawyers 2025
Best Lawyers 2024
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023
Latest news
Publications
2022
Rechtliche und praktische Herausforderungen bei der Umsetzung von Buy-and-Build Konzepten
M&A Review, November 30, 2022
2021
Hochwasser: Ist das operative Geschäft betroffen, sollten Kreditbedingungen geprüft werden
Flood disaster information
Umsatz und Ertrag in der Krise
unternehmermagazin 3/4·2020
2020
EU Kommission genehmigt Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds für Liquiditäts- und Kapitalhilfen für die Realwirtschaft
Sondernewsletter-Corona-Virus,
together with Dr. Thorsten Kuthe Errichtung eines Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds für die Realwirtschaft
Sondernewsletter Corona-Virus,
together with Dr. Thorsten Kuthe Liquidity support through “unlimited” loan guarantees – Update – including KfW quick loan program and initial emergency measures by German states (Bavaria, HH, NRW)
Update capital markets | special newsletter coronavirus,
together with Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M. (Columbia University), Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Michael Neises, Dr. Markus Rabe, LL.M. (University of Queensland) Effects on existing corporate loan agreements under german law
Special newsletter coronavirus,
together with Michael NeisesLectures
2023
Grundzüge des Gesellschaftsrechts
Lehrauftrag SRH Heidelberg, 2023
2022
Worum wird in Kreditverträgen gerungen?
Finance ThinkTank, December 2, 2022
Grundzüge des Gesellschaftsrechts
Lehrauftrag SRH Heidelberg, 2022
2021
Conflict avoidance through contract design
Lectureship at SRH Heidelberg, 2021
2020
Contractual Arrangements
Lectureship at SRH Heidelberg, 2020
2016
Shower of regulation on the Financial and Insurance sectors: Where does the journey end?
Lecture on German bank regulatory topics as part of the seminar of Aija International Association of Young Lawyers, 2016
2014
ADI Akademie der Immobilienwirtschaft
Lectureship on regulatory topics, 2014
