Dr. Michael W. Hopf

Our activities are related to Covid-19 crisis aerospace & defense supplier consolidation issues and other impacts, such as financial robustness and the need for capital measures, succession schemes, carve-outs, MBOs, etc.

Long standing experience in China business relations. Privatization of SoEs for Chinese Government. Promotion of Sino-German business cooperation in the industrial & financial sectors. Advising cross-border projects and investments, foreign listings of Chinese enterprises. Sino-German Senior Economic Relations Coordinator (Chief Rep of Tianjin Property Rights Exchange until 2018), trade promotion, market entry and site selections. Trainings, fact finding tours and company visits of Chinese delegations.

Systematic search for business opportunities early on. Advise to corporates & start-ups/ecosystem in the aerospace & defence, automotive, health and financial sectors on strategic initiatives and corporate development - including growth, internationalization, M&A, Capital Raising/IPO and other options. German-International industry cooperation with a focus on advanced materials, technologies, manufacturing processes and services

Developing cooperation in the economic and financial sectors between China and Germany; esp. in the fields of trade, market entry, technology, investments, acquisitions (M&A), financing, and Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), trainings and study tours of Chinese delegations visiting Europe. Building relations to political and governmental institutions. Arranging various MoUs between the Municipality of Tianjin/Tianjin Province, the State of Hesse, the Citi of Frankfurt, with GIZ and the German Stock Exchange

Advice to Chinese Government Design and Implement privatization processes in China Support Chinese Financial Sector Development: Stock Exchanges, Regulation, Financing Sino-German Trade and Economic Promotion

Restructured the retail agent broker into an institutional/portfolio trading broker, including trading-, sales- & settlement desks. Introduced customer support, automated trade & settlement processing to customers & independent research. Acquisition of a Fixed Income brokerage firm. Prep of the Instinet IPO. Contributed considerably to Instinet´s profit & trading volume growth. Registration as a licensed Securities Trading Bank: Licenced & appointed as Executive Director (Geschäftsleiter) by BaFin.

Restored Nomura's lost position as one of the leading players in European primary markets. Member of the Underwriting Syndicate of the privatizations of Deutsche Telekom & Lufthansa. Concentrated the necessary infrastructure (Research, Underwriting, Syndication, Placement & Trading) for Nomura Europe in Frankfurt. Supported a separate Asia tranche at the request of the owners (German government). Introduced an institutional trading & sales desk for structured finance products in coop with London & Tokyo.

Head of Investment Banking (Trading & Sales: FI, Equities, Derivatives, FX), Research (Quant-, Equity & FI-, Economic Research) and Advisory to intuitional clients. Restructured the business unit to restore profitability. Introduced state of the art Sales, Trading, Risk Management & Research Tools. Built up a Derivative Trading Desk with a US team. Advisor to Metzler Asset Management and its clients. Appointed as a Member of the German Stock & Derivative Exchanges

Design, Sales & Trading of FX, FI and Equity Derivatives & Structured OTC Products for Institutional Clients in teamwork with London & NY Trading & Risk Management. Desks. Built a team to advice Institutional Clients (insurance companies, pension funds) in the DACH Region. Ranked among the top 3 Investment Banks in this business segment. Registered as a General Securities Representative (Series 7) at NYSE, and as a National Commodities Futures and Options Representative (Series 3) with the NFA

Credit officer training for companies and financial institutions in London and NY. Implemented a credit review process for lending to local governments. Recommended to stop business with the housing cooperative Neue Heimat before bankruptcy. Account & Credit Officer in the correspondent banking unit. Junior co-founder of a highly profitable trade finance / forfaiting team. First inroads into Investment Banking: Trading, Sales & Research of FI and Equities for Institutional Clients & Sovereign Wealth Funds

Support of Prof. Dr. Karl Häuser, Chair of Public Finance, in all matters related to lectures, research, seminars, master theses & exams, and administration. Liaising with institutions such as the German Bundesbank and the Ministry of Finance. Fundraising for Research Projects. Presentations at International Conferences. Graduation with a doctorate in politics (Dr. rer. pol.)

Full Time: Business Administration & Economics. Part time: Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy and Law