Prof. Dr Tim Florstedt has held the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law, and Banking Law at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden since 2013. He completed his doctoral studies under Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Karsten Schmidt in Bonn; he obtained his habilitation under Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Theodor Baums at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt.

His research and consultancy work lies at the intersection of company law, capital markets law and tax law, with proven expertise in analysing the impact of anti-abuse tax provisions, shareholder protection, the reform of corporate finance and, most recently, the law governing crypto-assets. Over fifteen years of academic engagement with share transactions around the ex-dividend date (Cum/Ex, Cum/Cum, Cum/Fake) have established him as one of the most prominent voices in this field. Florstedt has repeatedly advised the Federal Ministry of Justice and has appeared on numerous occasions as an expert witness before the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag, including on issues relating to capital gains tax and the Withholding Tax Relief Modernisation Act. He has been the Ombudsman for private banks since September 2023 and a member of BaFin’s Advisory Board for Investor and Consumer Protection since December 2025.

He gained international experience as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, as a visiting academic at the University of Cambridge and as a visiting professor at the University of Athens; he is currently conducting comparative legal research into multi-vote shares in collaboration with colleagues at Istanbul University. His works – comprising more than 65 articles, commentaries and monographs – appear regularly in leading German legal journals.