Kai-Michael Hingst specializes in banking and financial law as well as bank supervisory and corporate law.

He has many years of experience in advising both banks and borrowers on complex domestic and international financing and restructuring transactions with a focus on acquisition finance and asset finance (ships and aircrafts). In the area of banking supervisory law, Kai-Michael Hingst advises both German and foreign lending institutions and financial services providers on the requirements of the German Banking Act (KWG). His clients include medium-sized and exchange listed companies.

Kai-Michael Hingst spent parts of his legal training in Brussels (European Commission) and New York (German Consulate General), has worked as a lawyer in London and is admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales. He has been teaching philosophy to students of the general course of studies at Bucerius Law School since 2004 and is a visiting lecturer on corporate and commercial law at Kiel University since 2007.

Bars and Courts
Solicitor of England and Wales, 2003
Rechtsanwalt, 2000

Education
Dr jur, University of Hamburg, 2001
Second State Exam, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, 1999
Dr phil, University of Hamburg, 1996
MA, University of Hamburg, 1993
First State Exam, University of Hamburg, 1991

Professional Associations and Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales
German-English Lawyers Association

Publications
Co-author: "The use of the term 'Kredit' in German law – de lega lata and de lege ferenda (Der Kreditbegriff im deutschen Recht – de lege lata und de lege ferenda)", WM, Pages 633–640, 2011 (with Eberhard Meincke)
"Financing (Finanzierung)", Formularbuch GmbH-Recht. Ed. Andreas Meyer-Landrut. Cologne, Pages 657-739, 2011 (Pages 673-720 with Alexander Kiefner)
Co-author: "A new legal framework for the supervisory bodies of banks and savings banks (Neue rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Kontrollorgane von Banken und Sparkassen)", WM, Pages 2016-2022, 2009 (with Thomas Himmelreich and Arne Krawinkel)
"What a Mezz! Types and Functions of Mezzanine Finance (What a Mezz! Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen von Mezzanine-Finanzierungen)". Festschrift für Hans-Bernd Schäfer. Ed. Thomas Eger et al. Wiesbaden, Pages 635-647, 2008

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Languages
English
French
German

Citizenship
Germany