Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Banking & Finance / Blockchain-Technologies & FinTech / Capital Markets / Corporate & Commercial

Joane Etienne is a Counsel in our Banking & Finance Group. Her main areas of practice are asset management and collective investment schemes, financial market regulations, anti-money laundering, sustainable finance and corporate law. Based in Geneva and Zurich, she advises clients on structuring their business, implementing and complying with financial market regulations, setting up funds and distribution structures, financing transactions, investment projects as well as automatic exchange of information and FATCA.

Professional Experience 2022 Counsel at Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva and Zurich 2020 Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva and Zurich 2020 Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer in Singapore 2017 Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva and Zurich 2016 Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva and Zurich 2014-2016 Head Legal & Compliance for a regulated manager of collective assets 2011-2014 Program Legal & Compliance Officer at the Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA in Bern

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Education and Admission 2011 Bar Admission in Switzerland 2008 Master of Law, University of Lucerne 2006 Bachelor of Law, University of Lausanne and Zurich