Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Banking & Finance / Financial Services / Blockchain-Technologies & FinTech / ESG / Insurance / Capital Markets

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.

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