Ms Joane Etienne > Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd
5bis, rue des Alpes
P.O. Box 2088
1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
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Work Department

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

Position

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.

Career

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

Languages

French English German

Education

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