Tanja Mesmer

Director & Compliance Officer

Tanja Mesmer, Compliance Officer, is Director at YIELCO.

She has many years of expe­rience as an in-house lawyer in the field of banking and capital market law as well as in compliance. After starting her career in the legal department of DZ Bank, she worked for many years in the legal department of UniCredit Bank, advising on struc­tured finance, project finance, asset-backed secu­rities, and profes­sional real estate client business. In the compliance department of UniCredit Bank, she subse­quently advised the corporate and investment banking division on legal issues relating to secu­rities compliance, MaRisk compliance and money laun­dering prevention / financial sanc­tions. Most recently, she worked in the legal department of LfA Förderbank Bayern as advisor to the management board and credit / staff depart­ments in banking and capital market law, insol­vency law and super­visory law.

She trained as a bank clerk and is admitted to the bar. While working, she obtained a certificate as a compliance officer (University of Augsburg) and will soon complete further studies in data protection law at the University of Hagen.