Ofeliia Assa, LL.M., CAIA
Areas of practice
Ofeliia Assa has gained significant experience advising leading German, Australian, European and U.S. asset managers and credit institutions on tax and regulatory matters with special focus on compliance under the Solvency II regulations, CRR/CRD IV and the German Insurance Supervision Act. She advises clients on the structuring and regulation of foreign investment funds, with particular emphasis on alternative investments, including hedge funds, infrastructure and real estate investment funds, private debt funds, securitisations and alternative UCITS. She is highly experienced in risk exposure optimization and regulatory reporting and compliance, advising global asset managers and financial institutions targeting institutional investors regulated in Europe.
Vita
Ofeliia Assa graduated with a master degree in law from Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridsky, Faculty of Law, Bulgaria (magna cum laude) in 1998 specialising in Civil Law and International Affairs. In the same year she emigrated to Israel. In 1998 and 1999 she took up Hebrew studies and passed the qualification exams in Israeli law as a foreign lawyer. In the period from year 2000 to 2002 she completed a one year mandatory legal internship and passed successfully the bar exams in Israel. Since July 2002 Ofeliia Assa has been a member of the Israel Bar Association, district of Tel Aviv.
She started her professional career as a lawyer managing employees’ stock option plans of a high-tech company based in Israel and the USA, supporting also the related tax reporting and other areas concerning employees’ relocation abroad. In the period until 2006 she broadened her practice including cross border tax advising concerning transactions involving activities in Israel and Bulgaria as well as additional corporate and civil law services. During that time she earned her second master degree in commercial law from Tel Aviv University, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Israel (magna cum laude) with special focus on finance, corporate and securities law.
In 2006 Ofeliia Assa relocated to Germany. Before joining Luther, Ofeliia Assa worked as an international lawyer at PWC providing tax and regulatory advice as a Manager as the Asset Management Tax & Legal/Alternative Investment Groups, and as a Senior Associate at Dechert LLP in Frankfurt am Main in the financial services department.
While expanding her practical experience, she also broadened her knowledge of alternative investments and earned the Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst designation (CAIA) in 2013, becoming a member of the CAIA global organisation. Since 2014 she has also been a member of the Bulgarian Bar Association (Vratza district). She is registered as a European lawyer with the Bar Association in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Rechtsanwaltskammer – Frankfurt am Main).
From July 2017 through August 2019 Ofeliia Assa was a senior associate in the Financial Service Group at Dechert LLP in Frankfurt. In September 2019 she joined the Capital Markets & Banking team at Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH as counsel.
Clients
- Tax, Solvency II and VAG compliance and reporting services delivered to a large international asset manager focused on private debt.
- Solvency II structuring and advising services provided to a U.S. based asset manager interested in approaching European institutional investors.
- Tax advising and legal opinion drafting for an Irish asset manager focused on renewable energy, willing to approach German institutional investors.
- Legal opinion and qualification of infrastructure investments under the Solvency II regulations and regular monitoring and reporting services to an international infrastructure assets manager.
Counsel
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Achim Pütz
Partner
Frankfurt a.M., Cologne
Dr Andreas Kloyer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M., London
Anna-Sophia Riebeling
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Anne Gensert
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dr Bela Jansen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Benjamin Hub
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Björn Simon
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Bob Scharfe
Managing Partner Luther S.A.
Luxembourg
Christoph Schauenburg, LL.M. (London)
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Claudia Hoffmann
Partner
Luxembourg
Constance Xue Yao Valsemey, LL.M.
Associate
Singapore
Dr. Daniel Krauspenhaar
Partner
Luxembourg
Daniel Latta
Partner
Berlin
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Dr Eberhard Vetter
Partner
Cologne
Elena Recklin
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Erik von Kügelgen
Senior Associate
Cologne
Prof Dr Florian Schulz M.B.A. (Nimbas)
Partner
Hamburg
Florian Plambeck
Associate
Hamburg
Georgios Patsinaridis
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Dr Gregor Wecker
Partner
Cologne
Henning Brockhaus
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jael Marquardt
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Jan-Patrik Welter
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Janis Rentrop
Associate
Cologne
Dr Joachim Heinemann
Partner
Hamburg
Prof. Dr Johannes Beermann
Of Counsel
Berlin
Dr Jörgen Tielmann, LL.M.
Partner
Hamburg
Konrad Prokop, LL.M.
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Lasse Langfeldt, LL.M. (Uppsala), LL.M. (Brussels School of Competition)
Senior Associate
Brussels
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Leonie Herwarth von Bittenfeld, LL.B., M.A.
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Manuel Seidel, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dr Marc Peters, LL.M. oec.
Counsel
Cologne
Marion Lanne
Counsel
Luxembourg
Martin Hüwel
Partner
Frankfurt a.M., Cologne
Maryana Slyusarchuk
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Nicole Bittlingmayer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Ofeliia Assa, LL.M., CAIA
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Oliver Zaruba
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Paula Dresler
Associate
Berlin
Peter Holan
Associate
Hamburg
Philipp Kropatscheck Nguyen, LL.M.
Of Counsel
Singapore
Pia Grahmann
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Rafaella Gavrielidou
Associate
Luxembourg
Robert Goerend
Partner
Luxembourg
Dr Rolf Kobabe
Partner
Hamburg
Sascha Wiemann
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Stefan Jokel
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Stefanie Samosny
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Stephan Gittermann
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Swe Yee Htun
Associate
Yangon
Thierry Joseph
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Victoria Schöll
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Volkan Top
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Xinyue Zhu, LL.M.
Business Lawyer
Cologne