Niklāvs Zieds

Niklāvs Zieds advises local and international credit institutions, investment firms, investment funds, and other financial institutions on licensing and ongoing compliance matters. In addition to financial regulation, he often handles asset- and project-finance transactions, including in the realm of aviation finance.

He has advised on licencing, supervision, and enforcement matters while working at the national financial regulator, focusing on capital markets law, investment firms, and investment funds. Niklāvs has also completed a year-long legal traineeship with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris, France, allowing him to work on technical standards, guidelines, and Q&As, and to provide advice on topics such as digital finance (MiCA and DORA), sustainable finance (SFDR and EU Taxonomy Regulation), investment services and products (MiFID II and MiFIR), central counterparties (EMIR), benchmarks and benchmark administrators (BMR), credit rating agencies (CRAR), and numerous other regulatory regimes.

Having rendered legal advice in German to a multitude of SMEs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and having been seconded to a law firm specializing in banking and finance law in Hamburg during February 2019, Niklāvs possesses a working knowledge of German.