Legal and compliance

Dr Alexander Bergfink has been advising companies and organizations on data protection issues since 2007. Before moving to KfW Capital, he worked in the internal data protection organization of various large corporations, including Porsche and Deutsche Bahn. In 2016 he received his Ph.D. on a data protection topic. He has been working in data protection at KfW Banken­gruppe since 2017.

Sojia Divac works as a Compliance Manager at KfW Capital. Before her job change in September 2023, she worked in Compliance at KfW Banken­gruppe since 2017. Here, her main focus was on taking control activities for the topics of GW, FSE, ssH and WPHG. Sojia is an apprenticed bank clerk, and she successfully completed her Bachelor’s degree in Business Law (LL.B.) part-time. Currently, she is pursuing her master’s degree in business law (LL.M.) in-service.

Before joining KfW Capital in July 2024, Max Hoffmann worked as a lawyer at Jones Day in the finance team with a focus on financial regulation. He then joined the legal tech company Fides Technology, where he co-established the Legal Customer Success Management department as one of his areas of responsibility. Max Hoffmann received his legal training at the Universities of Munich and Münster and at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main.

Maria Koch joined KfW Capital as Legal Counsel in January 2023. Before joining KfW Capital, she worked as in-house counsel at Commerzbank AG and Bosch Thermotechnik. She completed her legal training in Erlangen/ Nuremberg and at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main.

Angela Romano is since July 2021 working as compliance manager. She was previously employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Financial Services "Asset and Wealth Management" unit. She graduated in Insurance and Finance at Rhein Main University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. Angela is currently pursuing a part-time M.A. in Finance at the International School of Management in Frankfurt.

Before his move to KfW Capital in September 2021, Florian Schindler worked in a cooperative bank for eight years. He gained his first experience in the area of compliance there as Deputy Compliance Officer (WpHG & MaRisk). In parallel to his professional career, he completed extra-occupational degrees for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Banking & Finance and for a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in EU Banking & Financial Regulation, both at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Ran joined KfW Capital with seven years of professional experience as an auditor in the audit financial services department of KPMG, where she gained board experience especially with auditing the German securities Trading Act. In addition to her studies of economic sciences, with a focus on finance and accounting at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, she also obtained the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accounts) qualification.