Sven Mickisch

Practice Areas

Sven Mickisch is co-head of Skadden’s Financial Institutions Group. He handles complex transactions and regulatory matters in the financial services industry, with an emphasis on the banking/specialty finance and financial technology sectors. He also is co-head of Skadden’s financial services initiative, which oversees coverage of the firm’s financial services clients across all of its practices, and founded/co-leads Skadden’s global financial technology practice. Mr. Mickisch has significant experience representing financial institutions in mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments and financing transactions. He also regularly advises private equity firms transacting in the financial services sector. In addition, he has handled numerous restructurings and recapitalizations of financial institutions.

Publications

“Skadden Discusses the Impact of Banking System Turmoil” (The CLS Blue Sky Blog, June 9, 2023); “US Government Takes Major Steps To Make Depositors Whole and Provide Liquidity” (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, March 12, 2023); “Recent Actions by the Fed Show Its Continued Cautious Approach to Cryptoasset Activities by Supervised Institutions” (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, February 6, 2023); “US Regulators Express Concern About Banks’ Exposure to Cryptoasset Risks” (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, January 6, 2023)

Personal

Columbia University School of Law, J.D. (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2005; London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B. (Sir Morris Finer Memorial Prize), 2004.

Languages Spoken

German, French, English, Dutch (proficient)

Work Highlights

A select list of Mr. Mickisch's fintech representations includes: American Express in its acquisition of Loungebuddy; American Express, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo in their formation of TruSight; Bank of New York Mellon, Computershare, Clearstream, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and State Street in their investment in Proxymity; Bitfury Holdings, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology company, in its Cipher Mining investment; an investor consortium including BNP Paribas, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Deutsche Börse, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in their investment in blockchain market infrastructure platform HQLAx; Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in their investment in Access Fintech; Deutsche Bank in its investment in Modo Payments; eToro in its business combination with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V; eToro Group, the leading social investment network and digital asset exchange, on numerous financial regulatory, corporate and financing matters; E*TRADE in its sale to Morgan Stanley; Jefferies in the sale of FastMatch to Euronext; JPMorgan Chase in the sale of its blockchain platform Quorum to, and concurrent strategic investment in, ConsenSys Software; Live Oak in its investment in Finxact; Nasdaq in its spin-off of Nasdaq Private Markets (NPM) and concurrent investment in NPM by a consortium of bank partners, including SVB Financial Group, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley; Vantiv in its acquisition of Worldpay Group; Worldpay in its merger with FIS; and Zip in its acquisition of QuadPay.

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