Navigating Legal Frontiers in the EU Banking Union and Beyond

This book reflects the outcome of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) Legal Conference, held in Brussels on 6 June 2024. The conference brought together prominent practitioners, globally-renowned academics and high-level judges to exchange views and experiences over legal topics that are of general interest, actuality and pertinence to the European Banking Union and to the Single Resolution Mechanism in particular. Under the theme “Navigating legal frontiers in the EU Banking Union and beyond”, three panels explored the frontiers of the European resolution framework and operational frontiers stemming from national legal specificities in the European Union and beyond. The panel discussions focused on the challenges of resolution transfer tools, including the impact of digitization, the challenges arising from the use of international investment arbitration in resolution as well as the need for a global approach to bank insolvency, in particular for managing the failure of medium and small-sized banks.

Karl-Philipp Wojcik is the General Counsel of the EU Single Resolution Board since 2020. Before, he was a Member of the European Commission’s Legal Service, held positions in international law firms and was a judge in Germany. He graduated in law from the universities of Münster, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cologne.

Tim Wittenberg is a Senior Member of the Legal Service at the Single Resolution Board (SRB). Before joining the SRB, he worked in international law firms and the European Commission. He graduated in law from the universities of Cambridge (LL.M.) and Münster (Ph.D.).