Daniel Latta

Daniel Latta specialises in bank contract law. He advises financial sector companies on all matters pertaining to bank contract law, in particular in the areas of consumer credit, payment transaction and capital investment law. Over the years, Daniel Latta has also gained a wealth of experience as a lead trial lawyer in state courts, in individual proceedings as well as in mass and collective proceedings. He has repeatedly brought about landmark decisions by the highest courts on issues related to bank contract law. Daniel Latta thus combines the expertise of a trained banker and banking lawyer with the skills of a highly specialised litigator. He also regularly gives lectures on banking contract law topics and has been teaching at the German Institute of Banking at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2018 as part of the further education programme for investment and asset advisors.

In addition, Daniel Latta also concentrates his practice on complex financial and corporate disputes, such as post M&A disputes, damages claims against managing directors and board members and shareholder disputes. He represents his domestic and international clients both in state courts ad before arbitral tribunals.

Capital Markets, Banking & Finance
Complex Disputes

Daniel Latta is a trained banker. After studying law and completing an additional business and economics programme (with a focus on banking and finance) at the Universities of Bayreuth and Augsburg (both Germany), he worked at leading German law firms in Dusseldorf and Berlin (Germany). Daniel Latta joined Luther in August 2022.

• The Legal 500 Germany 2024: Recommendations in the category "Banking and Finance Law - Fintech" and in "City Focus - Berlin" 
  The Legal 500 Germany 2019: Mention in the section "Disputes in the financial services sector"
• Best Lawyers 2025: Recommendation in "Litigation" 

• Advising credit institutions on the drafting of contracts with consumers
• Providing judicial representation to credit institutions in proceedings before regional and higher regional courts, in particular in matters regarding payment transactions, consumer credit law and capital investment law
• Providing judicial representation to medium-sized companies in post-M&A disputes

• Zur Auslegung von § 357 Abs. 1 Satz 1 BGB a.F. – Anmerkung zum Urteil des BGH vom 04.07.2023 – XI ZR 77/22, in: Wirtschafts- und Bankrecht (WuB), Heft 10/2023, S. 393 ff.
• Die Verbandslage kommt - BMJ veröffentlicht Referentenentwurf, in: Dispute Resolution, Ausgabe 1/2023, S. 23ff.
• Zum Einwand der Entreicherung und zum Mitverschulden der Bank bei manipulierten Überweisungen - Anmerkung zum Urteil des OLG Stuttgart vom 17.11.2022 – 2 U 219/21, in: EWiR, Heft 4/ 2023, Seite 97 ff.
• Verbraucherwiderruf eines Darlehensvertrags zur Kfz-Finanzierung – Anmerkung zum Urteil des OLG Celle vom 25.03.2022 – 3 U 130/21, in: EWiR, Heft 16/2022, Seite 483 f.
• Fernabsatz-Verbraucherdarlehensverträge nach dem Romano-Urteil des EuGH (C-143/18), in: Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht BKR 2020, 69 ff. (gemeinsam mit Publikation Inhalt in: BKR 2020, 69 ff. Autor/in Externe/r Autor/in Tobias B. Lühmann)
• Bereitstellungszinsen bei der Rückabwicklung eines Darlehensvertrages - Anmerkung zum Urteil des OLG Stuttgart vom 17.09.2019 - 6 U 110/18, in: Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht (GWR), Heft 4/2020, S. 77-79

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (DAV)
• Bankrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V.

• 08.05.2023: ESG und Digitalisierung: neue (Haftungs-)Risiken?
• 25.11.2021: Aktuelles Bankvertragsrecht in der Rechtsprechung – eine Risikoabschätzung