We defend, represent and advise individuals as well as companies from Germany and abroad in all stages of criminal and administrative proceedings as well as preventively to avoid risks of sanctioning.
Our core competence is business and tax criminal law. We defend, represent and advise in particular in cases of fraud, embezzlement, non-payment of social security contributions, corruption, insolvency offenses, money laundering, environmental offenses, health care offenses and asset recovery as well as in foreign trade criminal law, banking criminal law, capital market criminal law, antitrust criminal law and antitrust regulatory offense law, labor criminal law and competition criminal law, such as the violation of trade secrets. In addition, we represent clients in general criminal law in individual cases.
As editors and authors of numerous publications in business and tax criminal law with an excellent academic network, we can offer a scientifically sound handling of even highly complex cases.
Our main practice area is the defense of individuals, in particular managing directors, board members, supervisory board members and executives, in criminal and regulatory offense proceedings. We advocate for our clients’ interests at all stages of the proceedings – from the preliminary investigation to the court and appeal proceedings.
We represent companies that are subject to administrative proceedings, that are affected by criminal proceedings conducted against third parties – for example, because the company is being searched or assets are being seized – or that have been victims of criminal offences.
In order to avoid the sanctioning of corporate bodies and employees of a company or the company itself, we evaluate corporate measures with regard to the risk of sanctioning.
Due to the complexity of business and tax crimes, both in legal and factual terms, the success of a criminal complaint depends to a large extent on how the facts of the case and the legal reasoning are presented to the public prosecutor. On this basis, we prepare criminal complaints for our clients and submit them to the public prosecutor’s offices.
We participate in the discourse on criminal law through publications on current topics. We make this scientific expertise available for the assessment of complex legal issues.
We assist witnesses during interrogation in criminal proceedings, in the context of an internal company investigation or in investigative parliamentary committees as witness counsel.