Andreas Knopf LL.M. is in-house lawyer and Head of Legal at Invesdor. He also heads the Legal Affairs & Europe Committee of the VDK (Association of German Credit Platforms). Previously, he worked as in-house counsel and in various management positions in medium-sized companies such as Spitzke SE and, since 2000, as a lawyer, including as a partner, particularly in the field of commercial and corporate law. He studied law at the Free University of Berlin, the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne and completed his legal clerkship in Berlin and Florida. Furthermore, he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Sydney. Andreas is a commentator on ECSP related aspects in one of Germany's leading legal commentary series, the Berliner Kommentare, in Siering, Izzo-Wagner (Ed.): VermAnlG. Vermögensanlagengesetz mit Vermögensanlagen-Verkaufsprospektverordnung. Berliner Kommentare. 2nd Edition. ESV, forthcoming.