Annette Wagemann

Attorney Dr. Annette Wagemann advises on banking and capital market law at the Frankfurt am Main and Karlsruhe offices and specializes in banking supervisory law . The focus of her expertise lies in legal advice at the interface between banking and financial services, virtual platforms and blockchain technology.

Her clients include medium-sized companies as well as international listed corporations. She is a lecturer at specialist conferences and training events for members of the supervisory board and board of directors as well as managing directors and executives, especially from the financial sector.

The main focus of advice is Dr. Annette Wagemann on the topics:

• BaFin licenses, market entry, EU passport, branch institutes
• banking and financial services
• Crypto assets and blockchain, ICO, crypto custody business
• leasing and factoring
• Payment Services and Electronic Money
• Online marketplaces and trading platforms
• online shops
• Legal reporting obligations and money laundering prevention
• social media platforms
• Compliance and activity as external compliance officer
• Planning and implementation of compliance management systems (CMS) including risk management/risk assessment
  
• Corporate governance, directors' liability and D&O insurance

Her industry focus is on the areas of financial services, trade, e-commerce and real estate.

Before joining WINHELLER, she was a syndicate and held responsible management positions as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in the Legal and Compliance departments, including at the Hornbach Group and MLP Finanzberatung SE (formerly MLP AG). Here she also headed the tax department. Before that, she worked as a lawyer at the international law firm Clifford Chance LLP (formerly Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster) in Frankfurt am Main, specializing in tax law.

dr Annette Wagemann studied at the University of Mannheim and at the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer. She completed her legal clerkship at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. Her doctoral thesis on international insurance contract law was awarded the research prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of Insurance Science at the University of Mannheim. dr Annette Wagemann has been admitted to the bar since 1996.