Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V. (BAI)

Michael Bommer - is Consultant in the Legal & Policy Affairs’ department of Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V. (BAI). He studied law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, at Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III, France, and at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. For many years, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Private International and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn, chair for banking law (Prof. Dr. Johannes Köndgen), and prior to joining BAI e.V. in 2015, he worked as an Associate Attorney for the Financial Services and Investment Management Practice Team of Dechert LLP, Frankfurt am Main. Michael is contributing to the most legislative procedures and consultations both on German and European level with regard to financial regulation (such as AIFMD, UCITS, EMIR, MiFID II, Solvency II, CRD, Shadow Banking, High Frequency Trading, European Capital Markets Union etc.) and responsible for BAI Infomails, Newsletters, Circulars and member requests. Michael is leading the BAI working group Sustainable Finance & ESG. In 2016, he successfully completed the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at the Universities of Bern and Geneva in Financial Regulation. Michael Bommer is a Swiss lawyer.