Expertise

Sefika advises domestic and foreign financial and non-financial firms on issues of financial law and regulation, capital markets law, as well as on foreign trade reporting (German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance – AWV).

She has specific expertise in the areas of money laundering compliance (AML/CFT) and European banking supervision (Single Supervisory Mechanism – SSM).

Earlier in her career, Sefika worked at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), most recently as a Senior Supervisor in the Joint Supervisory Team (JST) of the European Central Bank (ECB). Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, she also spent several years in the financial services department of a Big Four law firm.