About me
Eva Schneider is a Vienna-based associate in the global transactions group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She specialises in finance law and financial regulation.
Her practice covers transactions in all areas of finance, from loans to structured products, and advisory work. Eva has a wide range of financial regulatory experience and helps clients navigate complex regulatory compliance and risk issues, including in the areas of banking, payments, investment, and insurance regulation. She also supports financial institutions in regulatory proceedings and on regulatory aspects of transactions, restructurings, investigations, and disputes.
Eva has spent six months on secondment to a global mobile payment service provider and has also been seconded to our Frankfurt office. She is a member of the firm's financial institutions group, global fintech core team and CEE country group and regularly speaks at conferences and workshops.
Before joining the firm, Eva worked in the European Parliament’s legal service (unit for economic and monetary affairs) in Belgium, the Austrian trade commission in Korea, a bank in Austria, as well as at Austrian courts and authorities. She studied law, business and economics in Austria, France and Italy and currently pursues a PhD in Switzerland.
Eva speaks German, English, French and Italian.