Sylvia Kierszenbaum
Partner
Sylvia focuses on the regulation of banking and insurance activities and financial services.
Expertise
Industries
Experience
Representative matters
Athora Belgium SA/NV (Athora Belgium), a wholly owned subsidiary of life insurance group Athora Holding Ltd. (Athora), on the acquisition of a closed-book individual life portfolio from NN Insurance Belgium NV/SA representing €3.3bn of assets under management.
An international payment institution in performing a regulatory assessment of its digital payment services under the laws of 13 countries.
Argenta Spaarbank, a Belgian credit institution, on the set-up of a €7.5 billion Belgian covered bonds programme and a €3 billion Euro Medium Term Notes Programme, we have advised Argenta Spaarbank on the annual updates of those programmes and several issuances thereunder.
Bank Nagelmackers as originator/seller and Belfius Bank as arranger in connection with the setting up of the B-Arena V securitisation transaction.
Published Work
- Kierszenbaum, S., De Dijn, S., De Waele, N. (2021), "Belgian Brexit update following the hard Brexit for financial services", 2021, Bank Fin.R., afl. 1, 34-43.
- Kierszenbaum, S. and De Waele, N. (2020) “the impact of the new Belgian Companies and Associations Code on the governance structure of financial institutions” in: Impact du nouveau droit des sociétés sur le secteur financier / De impact van het nieuwe vennootschapsrecht op de financiële sector, 2020, Larcier Legal
- Kierszenbaum, S. and De Waele, N. (2019) “Banking, investment and insurance services after Brexit: Loss of passporting rights and impact on existing cross-border business”, 2019, Larcier Legal
- Kierszenbaum, S. and De Waele, N. (2018) “MiFID II rules on conflicts of interest and inducements: reinforcement of the MiFID I framework.” chapter in “MiFID II & MiFIR: Capita Selecta”, 2018, p. 115-153, Brussels: Anthemis
Awards
Qualifications
Admissions
Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2021
Admitted as “advocaat / avocate” (Belgium), 1992
Academic
LLM, Cornell University, 1989
Law Degree, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, 1988
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