Awet Yohannes is a lawyer at Annerton’s Munich office. He mainly advises German and international companies in the areas of financial services law, securities law, e-money and payment services law as well as “FinTechs” and non-regulated companies on all financial regulatory issues. He also advises on compliance issues and in particular on anti-money laundering law.
Awet Yohannes is also interested in the digitisation of the financial sector, in particular DLT & Blockchain, Crypto-Assets, Stablecoins, Digital Euro and Decentralised Finance (DeFi).
Awet Yohannes publishes regularly in academic journals as well as on the Blog „PAYMENT.TECHNOLOGY.LAW.“ (PayTechLaw).
Vita
- Since 2022: Annerton, Munich (first trainee lawyer, then fully qualified lawyer)
- 2022: 2nd state exam in law, Munich
- 2021: Legal clerkship in Munich (including Munich Regional Court II – Chamber for Banking and Financial Issues; BayLDA – Department for Credit and Finance)
- 2020-2022: Research assistant at the insolvency administrator law firm MHBK (Munich office)
- 2020: Qualification as business mediator (MuCDR)
- 2020: 1st state exam in law, Munich
- 2019: Studied law in Bayreuth (UBT) and Munich (LMU)
Expertise
- Anti-money laundering law
- Banking law
- Banking supervisory law
- Compliance
- Crypto & digitisation
- Financial services law
- Payment services law
- Payment services supervisory law