Speakers

Frank Dornseifer is Managing Director of BAI, the German advocacy organization for the Alternative Investments industry (Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V.). He has been active for more than 25 years in various functions in policy and regulatory affairs, investment management, capital markets and corporate law. 

He studied law at the universities of Bonn, Dublin (Trinity College) and Lausanne. After admission to the German Bar in 2000 he practiced various years as attorney in an international law firm in the field of corporate and capital market law before joining the German Financial Regulator BaFin as deputy head of the policy unit within the investment management department. In this function he also represented BaFin in the Investment Management Committee of IOSCO. 

The finance committee of the German Bundestag, the EU commission and the European Parliament denominated him several times as expert on capital market law. Mr. Dornseifer gives frequently speeches at national and international conferences on investment and regulatory topics and he is co-editor of legal commentaries on the German Investment Act and on the AIFM Directive.