PAYONE GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Alexandra Simotta is a lawyer trained in New York and Austria. Currently, she holds the position of Head of Legal Austria and Slovenia at SIX Payment Services (Europe), Austrian Branch, a European payment services provider & daughter company of Worldline Group. She advises the company in a variety of legal areas, especially in the FinTech field, amongst these matters of data protection, anti-money laundering, civil and civil procedural law, banking (supervisory) law, commercial law, contract law and corporate law. In her role as Head of legal she has led SIX Group, Worldline and SIX Payment Services through several (international) mergers and acquisitions and has enabled the introduction and placement of new technologies to the payments market. Moreover, she has led several company- and group-wide projects, such as the revision of the general terms and conditions for credit cards, various outsourcing projects before the Austrian and Luxemburg Financial Market Authorities as well as the adaption of the company’s contracts to new European legislative developments, e.g. the General Data Protection Regulation and the Payment Services Directive II. She regularity manages teams of external counsel and has litigated several national and international cases for the company & group, e.g. Austrian version of a class action lawsuit.
Before her career at SIX, Alexandra has worked in private practice in the dispute resolution teams of two Austrian top tier law firms, where she has defended enterprises before Austrian and European Courts as well as before arbitral tribunals in matters of international law.
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