Awet Yohannes

Practice Areas

▪ Anti-money laundering law

▪ Banking law

▪ Banking supervisory law

▪ Compliance

▪ Crypto & digitisation

▪ Financial services law

▪ Payment services law

▪ Payment services supervisory law

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).

Career

Since 2022: Lawyer at Annerton, Munich

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)