Susan Pischel

Biography

Susan Pischel is a partner in the area of banking regulatory law. She has been a lawyer at KPMG Law in the Legal Financial Services department since November 2016, advising domestic and foreign banks, financial services institutions and other regulated companies.

Susan Pischel advises and represents companies in licensing procedures and other necessary approvals before the competent supervisory authorities (BaFin, Deutsche Bundesbank, ECB, deposit protection). She also conducts the necessary owner control proceedings for the shareholders in licensing procedures and restructurings. She supports institutions (banks, financial service providers, payment service providers, securities service providers, credit service providers) in fulfilling their regulatory obligations vis-à-vis the competent supervisory authorities (including due diligence and organizational duties, governance issues and, together with experts from KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, equity capital issues). Susan Pischel assists supervisory and administrative bodies of institutions in the digital implementation of self-evaluations in accordance with Section 25d (11) sentence 1 no. 3 KWG and non-regulated companies in the self-assessment (efficiency audit) in accordance with D.12 of the German Corporate Governance Code (GCGC).

In addition, she advises non-regulated companies at the interface with supervisory law on the delimitation of activities requiring a license (in particular finance leasing and financial transfer business).

Susan Pischel frequently works cross-functionally with colleagues at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft from the Financial Services Tax, Advisory, Consulting and Audit divisions as well as the international KPMG network in order to provide her clients with holistic advice.