Rüdiger Veil holds the chair for civil law and business law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He graduated at Humboldt University, Berlin in 1995 with a doctoral thesis on 'Conversion of a Stock Corporation'. In 2002, he obtained his habilitation at Humboldt University with a book on 'Inter-company Agreements'. Rüdiger Veil has published books on 'European Capital Markets Law' (3rd. edition 2022) and on 'The Law of Corporations' (6th. edition 2015) and more than 100 articles in top ranked journals and research handbooks. He has acted as an expert for the German, European, Chinese and Russian parliament on draft laws on corporate law and capital markets law. He was a member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) from 2014 to 2018; from September 2016 to December 2018 he was the group's Chair. ESMA has appointed him as an Alternate Member of the ESA Joint Board of Appeal in 2021.