Institute For Law And Finance

ILF Graduates

What do employers say?

: Oliver Dreher, LL.M., Partner, Linklaters LLP

“The knowledge and practical experience gained during the training at the ILF is rather unique in the current German academic market. This combined with the strong backgrounds and personalities of the students accepted by the ILF makes the graduates very interesting candidates for an international law firm like Linklaters.We found ILF graduates to be very much at home in international transactions, dealing naturally with large international investment banks and corporations and being familiar with modern transactional techniques and technology.”

: Dr. Hendrik Haag, Partner, Hengeler Mueller

“As a leading legal adviser in the field of international law of capital markets, Hengeler Mueller has a real interest in strengthening the Frankfurt financial market in the context of global competition. The ILF attracts young talent from all over the world through its qualitatively excellent program and especially contributes towards making Frankfurt an even more attractive place to work.”

Looking for highly-qualified graduates?

The ILF LL.M. Finance curriculum offers not only a unique combination of the disciplines of law and finance but also provides a real interaction between theory and practice.

The highly selective admissions process guarantees that participants in the LL.M. Finance program have the requisite potential to excel in today's competitive and complex legal and financial world.

In order to successfully complete the one-year English-language program, participants must be highly motivated, be able to work under extreme pressure, as well as possess effective communication and organizational skills.

How to recruit an ILF Graduate?

The ILF offers you the possibility to focus your search among the ILF students and Alumni. Use our career button to find the appropriate ILF graduate!

Where are some of our alumni today?

Company	Location
Ashurst	Frankfurt am Main
Baker & McKenzie	Frankfurt am Main & Moscow
Bundesministerium der Finanzen	Berlin
Beiten Buckhardt	Frankfurt & Warsaw
China Foreign Exchange Trading System	Shanghai
Clifford Chance	Frankfurt am Main, Padua and Moscow
Commerzbank	Frankfurt am Main
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP	London
DekaBank	Frankfurt am Main
Deutsche Bank	Frankfurt am Main
Deutsche Bundesbank	Frankfurt am Main
DnB NOR BankStockholm	Stockholm
European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main
European Investment Bank Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Fortis Bank	Turkey
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	Frankfurt am Main and London
Hengeler Mueller	Frankfurt am Main and London
J.P. Morgan	London
KPMG	Frankfurt am Main
Linklaters	Frankfurt am Main
Luther	Shanghai
Lovells	Milan
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados	Sao Paulo
McKinsey & Company	Frankfurt am Main and Munich
Merill Lynch	Sao Paulo
Ministry of Finance of Georgia	Tbilisi
Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz	Kiev
Norton Rose	Athens
PricewaterhouseCoopers	Frankfurt am Main & Almaty
Salans LL	Almaty
SEB	Oslo
Société Générale	London
Threadneedle Investment	London
UBS AG	Zurich
White & Case	Frankfurt am Main
Wolf Theiss	Sarajevo

Miao Lin, China

Class of 2010, Associate, Clifford Chance, Frankfurt am Main

"Studying at the Institute for Law and Finance was a truly rewarding experience. It gave me a new perspective when dealing with the law and applying it in the context of corporate financing. In addition to learning substantive law, finance and economics, I value the insights and practical experience which I gained from experienced attorneys giving their lectures. From this program, I got to learn various types of financing available to companies and how they are structured and documented. I was also guided to think from standpoints of different market players, either as a company official, a banker or an attorney. This helped me gain a comprehensive understanding of my work."

ILF Careers

Melina Kapeliou, Greece

Class of 2008, Corporate Associate, Fried Frank, London

“The LL.M. Finance program at the Institute for Law and Finance was a very rewarding experience for me. I had justgraduated from law school in Greece when I applied for the LL.M. program in 2007. The ILF offered me the opportunity
to study in-depth international business law and obtain a very good understanding of accounting and finance – both helped me immensely in starting my career as an international corporate lawyer in London. The interaction with leading academics (including visiting professors from all around the world), knowledgeable practitioners and students with varying backgrounds and working experience, in addition to the unique opportunity to do internships at leading law firms, banks and other organizations, are a few features that, I think, permit ILF graduates to stand out and pursue great careers either in their home countries or abroad.”

Patrick van de Ven, the Netherlands

Class of 2006
Clifford Chance LLP, Amsterdam

“After obtaining a master’s degree in law and a bachelor’s degree in business management in The Netherlands and intermittently having studied at Harvard, I knew I wanted to pursue an internationally-oriented LL.M. degree outside The Netherlands. My main concern was finding a degree program that would allow me to combine business, finance, economics and law, while also giving me practical experience, personal instruction and an international student body. As I considered the U.S., the U.K., Germany and even Hong Kong, it became apparent that only the ILF could offer me the combination I was looking for, allowing me to achieve all these aims and more.

Together with my classmates who came to Frankfurt from as far away as Brazil and China, I enjoyed classes taught by highly qualified professionals and academics from the legal and financial fields. We attended guest lectures by visiting professors and actively participated in discussions. We enjoyed office visits, drinks and other festivities at various law firms, the European Central Bank and other financial institutions. We were given the opportunity to do internships at leading international law firms and banks, which for me meant working with Clifford Chance in Frankfurt. And last, but certainly not least, we enjoyed outings as well as city trips to Heidelberg and Berlin.

Upon graduation, I joined the Debt and Equity Capital Markets teams of the Clifford Chance’s Amsterdam office, applying on a daily basis the skills, knowledge and personal connections gained during my time at the ILF.”