Peter Sester

Peter Sester (born December 16, 1967 in Rastatt ) is a German lawyer and economist as well as a consultant for companies , law firms and family offices .

Career

After completing his Abitur, Peter Sester studied law at the University of Heidelberg from 1988 to 1992 and economics at the Fern-Universität Hagen from 1990 to 1996 . In 1992 he passed the first state examination and in 1996 the second state examination. In between, he was at the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation topic litter Deficiency in opposition and consent refusal in the law of commercial partnership doctorate . He completed his habilitation in 2001 on the subject of project financing as a design and regulatory problem at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 2009 he also completed an economics dissertation at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the title Institutional Reforms in Maturing Capital Markets .

After completing his academic training, research stays at the Universities of Cambridge , Montpellier , Aix-en-Provence , and the London School of Economics followed . From 2002 to 2012, Sester held the chair for civil law, commercial and corporate law and business law and headed the institute for information and business law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

From 2013 to 2014 he was director of the Institute for Law & Finance and professor for civil law, business law and tax law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Peter Sester also received invitations as a visiting professor again and again. B. at the INSPER in São Paulo , the COPPEAD (UFRJ) Business School in Rio de Janeiro and at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) in Buenos Aires . From 2014 to 2019 Sester was Professor of International Business Law and Law & Economics as well as Director of the Institute for Public Finance, Finance Law and Law & Economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) .

Research priorities

Peter Sester's research focuses on international commercial law, with a particular focus on finance and financial market law as well as Brazilian commercial and commercial law. He is an expert in international and European financial market law as well as legal and organizational issues relating to family offices (structuring, governance and conflict resolution). One focus of his research and advisory work concerns the effects of European financial market law on third countries, such as Switzerland in particular , as well as cross-border design issues for family offices. He works as the responsible editor and author of practical handbooks on both topics . As a doctor of law and economics, he deals both thematically and methodically with structural issues and products that lie at the intersection of law and economics. In addition, he is a proven specialist in Brazil through publications, lectures and consulting mandates .

As a freelance consultant (appraiser) and continuing education lecturer, he works for law firms, companies and family offices as well as financial market institutions (most recently for the Brazilian stock exchange).

Fonts (selection)

• Violation of the duty of loyalty in the case of objection and refusal of consent in the law of commercial partnerships. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996 (legal dissertation).
• Project financing agreements as a design and regulatory task. A symbiotic form of financing for private-sector projects and public-private partnerships. Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2004 (habilitation thesis).
• Institutional Reforms in Maturing Capital Markets: the Brazilian Stock Market. An institutional economic analysis of international standards, regulation and self-regulation. De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2009 (economic dissertation).
• Brazilian commercial and business law. Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2010; 2nd edition 2014.

Web links

• Peter Sester on the website of the University of St. Gallen

Individual evidence