Michael Meissner is a Lecturer in Financial Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law.

Michael has 20 years of international practical experience in financial law and compliance. He started his legal career in the New York office of a Magic Circle firm, subsequently held partner roles in international law firms in his home country Germany and acted as chief compliance officer for an ECB supervised public bank. Michael is admitted to the Frankfurt (Germany) Bar and New York Bar.

He holds a PhD in law from Saarland University and an LLM degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. Prior to joining King’s, alongside a busy practical career, Michael held teaching commitments at London Business School, the University of St. Gallen, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research interests include bank governance, risk management, and sustainability themes in financial regulation as well as compliance topics such as artificial intelligence in anti-financial crime measures.

Michael is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Research interests

• Corporate and Bank Governance
• EU, UK, and US Financial Regulation
• Sustainable Financial Regulation 
• Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime and Risk Management

Selected publications

• ‘EU Prudential Supervision: Classifying Institutions as Significant or Less Significant Following Wirecard’s Collapse’, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2023) 38 (1) 41-44
• ‘Calibrating AML Systems for Banks and How to Regulate the Application of Automated Control Processes’, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2020) 35 (1) 40-45
• ‘Accountability of Senior Compliance Management for Compliance Failures in a Credit Institution’, Journal of Financial Crime, (2018) 20 (1) 131-139
• ‘The Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP): Ultimate Test for the Banking Union?’, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, (2016) 31 (6) 331-337
• ‘Contesting Decisions in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: What Banks Must Observe for a Proceeding at the Administrative Board of Review’ (with Dr Klaus Lackhoff), Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, (2015) 30 (5) 285-295
• ‘German Leveraged Finance in 2011: Bouncing back but not as you might expect’, International Financial Law Review, (2011) 30 (2) 66-67

Teaching

Postgraduate

• International Financial Regulation
• EU and US Financial Regulation (Seminar)
• Project Finance
• Capital Markets
• Financial Products

Undergraduate

• Banking Law (Tutorials)

Michael also serves as Academic Director for the Navigating International Financial Regulation and Compliance course as part of The Dickson Poon School of Law's executive education programme. 

PhD and LLM Student Supervision

While Dr Meissner continues to supervise LLM dissertations in the areas of financial products and their financial regulation, particularly in combination with governance, compliance, or risk management themes, he presently cannot accept further PhD students.