Overview
Anna Balabina is co-founder and CFO of casepal, a role she has held since June 2024. She is based in Düsseldorf, where she has also worked as a scientific assistant at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP since April 2022.
In July 2024 she completed an internship at Grant Thornton Germany. Between November 2022 and February 2024 she was scientific assistant to the director general at Societaet CHORVS, and in early 2023 she was an internship trainee at Asters. She joined JURIST as a journalist in June 2022 and was senior correspondent there from October 2022 to October 2023. She also worked as an assistant at the Generalkonsulat der Ukraine in Düsseldorf in late 2022, and took part in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot from May 2021 to April 2023.
Balabina holds a Master of Science in Financial Analysis and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from KU Leuven, a Bachelor of Laws in European Law from the University of Düsseldorf, and a bachelor's degree in law from the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Career history
In the news
- You know the trick where a magician pulls a rabbit out of an empty hat? 🐇 That's kind of what "legal" looks like from outside a company. I've spent the past two months in discovery conversations. From outside, in-house legal looks like contracts & contracts.. And some more contracts? Maybe some redlining and negotiation? That's the hat. Sit with these teams for a while though, and out comes everything else. Compliance. AML. KYC and KYB. Policy work that has nothing to do with a contract. Constant back and forth with tech, audit,
- My favourite part of August is a full-scale preparation for September. While offices and courts are on vacation, we are spending days on operations and coordination for the events in autumn. Looking at my calendar right now, our team will have to be in several different countries within a few weeks of September: from NYC to DACH events to Southern Europe. Sad that teleportation has not been developed yet! A quick glimpse: 🇩🇪 casepal x CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Germany invite-only dinner in Frankfurt for
- If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Some claim Henry Ford said that, and it's usually quoted as a case for ignoring customer feedback. Build the thing you believe in, tune out the noise, disrupt away. I think that is so wrong. Because it misses the core point. Customers wanting faster horses weren't wrong about what they wanted: getting from point A to point B faster, more reliably, with less effort. A faster horse was just the vocabulary they had for that need, the only reference point
- First vacation since founding casepal, two years ago. Not surprisingly, it turned into a workaction. I am apparently incapable of keeping my eyes off the emails and deals flowing. So here I am, laptop open, somewhere on the way to Reither Spitze in the Austrian Alps. Deals do not pause for the view. And honestly, I would not want it any other way right now. Two years in, this is still the stage where you carry it with you everywhere. Not because you have to. Because you get to ;) #casepal #legaltech #legalai #founderlife
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