Annerton Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH's comprehensive regulatory capacities in the financial sector are regularly called upon by banks, financial institutions and international corporations as well as startups and fintech companies. The team advises on matters pertaining to blockchain, banking as a service (Baas), e-commerce and crypto custody as well as BaFin licensing procedures; the latter was recently utilised in the context of crypto custody transactions. Frank Müller (Munich) is experienced in BaFin licensing procedures as well as in advising financial institutions and fintech companies on cooperation agreements; Alireza Siadat (Frankfurt) specialises in matters pertaining to market entry, passporting, compliance and crypto assets and Susanne Grohé (Berlin) offers expertise in e-money, blockchain and DLT topics as well as e-commerce, money laundering and outsourcing matters; she is supported by senior associate Kemal Ahmedi. The compliance segment was strengthened with the addition of Sebastian Glaab; he joined from an international credit institution in July 2022.

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Key clients

  • Binance Deutschland GmbH
  • Fuel
  • Expatrio Global Services GmbH
  • New Horizon GmbH
  • PAYONE GmbH
  • Prepaid Verband Deutschland e.V.
  • Concardis GmbH
  • smava GmbH
  • Fireblocks
  • Stokr
  • Volksbank Mittweida
  • DZ Bank
  • Zalando SE
  • Vereinigte Volksbank
  • Raiffeisen Bank eG
  • Kadmos GmbH
  • Tangany GmbH
  • Solaris SE
  • FinTecSystems GmbH
  • October Deutschland GmbH
  • Swarm Capital
  • MISA Art
  • Business Service Solution GmbH
  • Byte Federal, Inc
  • PPRO Holding GmbH
  • Tomorrow GmbH
  • adorsys GmbH
  • Mangopay SA

Work highlights

  • Advising the FinTech-Volksbank VVRB (United Volksbank Raffeisenbank) on its cooperation with the tax platform Zasta and the real estate payment platform Getmomo.
  • Advising Binance on applying for crypto custody and crypto trading permits in Germany.
  • Advising DZ Bank on the implementation of the DLT-based pay per use business.

Lawyers

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Other key lawyers

Susanne Grohé, Frank Müller, Peter Frey, Christian Walz, Matthäus Schindele, Alireza Siadat, Anna Izzo-Wagner, Florian Lörsch, Anh-Vu Tran, Sebastian Glaab, Kemal Ahmedi