• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Intellectual property
        • Information technology
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
        • Tax
        • Venture capital
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse all insights
    • In focus
        • AI
        • Dealonomics
        • Disputes
        • Intellectual property
        • MENA
        • Regulation
        • Browse in focus
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse all events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Anna Hankings-Evans
Dr. Anna Hankings-Evans
Dr. Anna Hankings-Evans

Dr. Anna Hankings-Evans

Senior Associate

  • Berlin Germany
Contact Me Today
+49 30 885636 0
vCard
Email me Call me

Anna  is a member of the Technology, Media & Communications (TMC) practice area. She provides comprehensive advice on national and international venture capital and M&A transactions in the technology, telecommunications, internet, e-commerce and media sectors. A particular focus of her work is on the legal structuring and implementation of financing rounds, exits and buy-outs. In addition, she has proven expertise in complex M&A transactions and joint ventures and is also particularly familiar with the legal support of cross-border investments in the West African region.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Venture capital
Financing rounds (Seed, subsequent and growth financing) equity and non-equity instruments
Africa group

Sectors

Technology, media & communications

CV

Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Associate, US-American law firm
2020 - 2022 Lawyer, Boutique law firm for international commercial law
2013 - 2016 Research assistant, Department of Public Law and International Law
2022 Doctorate, Berlin
2020 Admission to the bar, Berlin
2020 Second state examination, Berlin
2018 - 2020 Legal clerkship, with stations at the Federal Ministry of Economics and at the German Embassy in Ghana
2016 - 2017 Research stay, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
2013 First state examination, Berlin

Career

Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Associate, US-American law firm
2020 - 2022 Lawyer, Boutique law firm for international commercial law
2013 - 2016 Research assistant, Department of Public Law and International Law

Education

2022 Doctorate, Berlin
2020 Admission to the bar, Berlin
2020 Second state examination, Berlin
2018 - 2020 Legal clerkship, with stations at the Federal Ministry of Economics and at the German Embassy in Ghana
2016 - 2017 Research stay, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
2013 First state examination, Berlin

Additional languages

English

Anna's news & insights

View Anna's insights
Low angle view of futuristic skyscrapers
Click here to find out more
Venture capital

Taylor Wessing advises General Catalyst on Parloa's $350 million Series D financing

16 January 2026

by multiple authors

Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures on US$41 million seed financing of Mirelo AI

23 December 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Accel and other existing shareholders on Trade Republic's €1.2 billion secondary round

22 December 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
View Anna's insights

Related news & insights

Layers of contemporary financial skyscrapers
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising Rezolve AI on its US$230 million acquisition of Reward Loyalty UK Limited

12 February 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
View from below of forest trees
Private equity

Advising Verdane on its investment in Bluewater Bio

9 February 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Escalator
Consumer & retail

Consumer and Retail in the News

6 February 2026
Quick read

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Up Arrow
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising Lingotto on its extended Series A funding into Optalysys to US$60 million

6 February 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Ecco Group on its acquisition of two cereal production facilities in England and France from Nestlé

5 February 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Round table with chairs view from above
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Purchase completed: Taylor Wessing advises Regent on its acquisition of ContiTech’s business unit Original Equipment Solutions (OESL)

4 February 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Up Arrow
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising on Infinitopes' expanded seed financing to US$35 million

3 February 2026

by Ross McNaughton and Oli Denne

Click here to find out more
man with red umbrella
Technology, media & communications

The Critical Infrastructure Umbrella Act

30 January 2026
Briefing

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Tech Takes Monthly
Patents & innovation

The development of the UK's SEP/FRAND landscape since Unwired Planet v Huawei – part one

30 January 2026
Briefing

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Tech Takes Monthly
Patents & innovation

Tech Takes Monthly series

30 January 2026
Quick read
Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

Germany
Global

Felipe Villena

Salary Partner

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile

Miroslav Đurić, LL.M.

Senior Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Joana Pamukova

Joana Pamukova

Senior Associate

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Christian Traichel

Dr. Christian Traichel

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile

Dr. Ralf B. Tietz, LL.M. (Chicago)

Salary Partner

Berlin
+49 30 885636 165
Email me
View profile
Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais

Dr. Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Leonard Raphael

Leonard Raphael, LL.M. (Krakau)

Senior Associate

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Tarek Fadl

Tarek Fadl, MBA

Senior Associate

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Marc-Oliver Kurth, Corporate M&A Lawyer in Berlin | Taylor Wessing

Marc-Oliver Kurth, LL.M. (Sydney)

Partner

Berlin
Frankfurt
+49 30 885636 421
Email me
View profile
Songjiwen Wu

Songjiwen (Harry) Wu

Associate

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Full team
Nell Cooper

Nell Cooper

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Jack Turner

Jack Turner

Associate

London
San Francisco
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Rob Hendriks

Rob Hendriks, Dr.

Partner

Amsterdam
+31 88 02 43 289
Email me
View profile

Felipe Villena

Salary Partner

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Gilles Amsallem

Gilles Amsallem

Partner

Paris
+33 172 74 03 10
Email me
View profile
Christian Traichel

Dr. Christian Traichel

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Dillan Madhani

Dillan Madhani

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Howard Palmer

Howard Palmer

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4819
Email me
View profile

Edward Waldron

Partner

London
+44 (0)20 7300 4968
Email me
View profile
Zabdaj Pollen

Zabdaj Pollen

Partner

Eindhoven
+31 88 02 43 050
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing