MANDATE

1. Banks and insurance companies

  • Advising major foreign banks on risks in Cum-Ex-Trade transactions
  • Advising the German branch office of a foreign insurer on money laundering risks
  • Advising the German subsidiary of a major foreign bank on the criminal and regulatory risks in a BaFin special audit
  • Advising a German bank in connection with risks in connection with finance products in Germany and other states
  • Representation of a major German bank with regard to alleged violations of supervisory duties in relation to fraud and embezzlement by employees

2. Trading companies

  • Assisting a German group in uncovering fraudulent activities of the management of a foreign subsidiary and in resolving tax risks; assisting in the assertion of damage claims with the means of criminal law; advice on the elimination of weak points which favoured fraudulent activities
  • Defending a member of the management board of a foreign trading company because of the alleged evasion of VAT
  • Advising a DAX-30 company on risks involved in sponsoring agreements
  • Advising a DAX-30 company on the risks of certain financing structures
  • Advising a DAX-30 company on corruption risks involved in certain contractual structures for the establishment of foreign subsidiaries

3. Industrial undertakings

  • Advising and representing a German subsidiary of a foreign Group as well as collaborative defence of several defendants by several lawyers against charges of having fraudulently obtained subsidies and prepared wrong financial statements
  • Advising a major German group on the connections under tax, company, antitrust and accounting law with Swiss companies connected through put and call options
  • Auditing of a compliance system for the supervisory board of a DAX-30 company under the aspects of the avoidance of corruption and antitrust violations
  • Representing a German subsidiary of a US producer of medicinal products with regard to alleged product deficiencies
  • Advising a major foreign group on the risks involved under insolvency law in structuring an asset deal

4. Other service providers

  • Advising an M&A consulting company on the procedure for the planned investment in a client company in order to avoid the risk of being suspected of insider trading
  • Advising a US consultancy company on the management of the risks arising from allegedly erroneous over-valuations for the IPO of a client
  • Collaborative defence of several defendants by several lawyers for a group practise of laboratory doctors against the accusation of alleged fraudulent billing
  • Advising the Swiss parent of a group of engineering companies on the criminal risks in investments and acquisitions
  • Advising the management board of a listed German subsidiary of a foreign company on charges of capital investment fraud, market manipulation and wrong financial statements

5. Individual defence

  • Defending a former member of the management board of Ferrostaal against charges of bribery in connection with the sale of submarines
  • Defending the chairman of the management board of a listed company because of insider trading in connection with a takeover under the Takeover Act
  • Defending the chairman of the management board of a foreign company because of alleged tax evasion, failure to pay social security contributions as well as violations against the Labour Leasing Act
  • Assisting the managing director of the German subsidiary of a French listed group in connection with criminal proceedings in France concerning violations of the Stock Exchange Act as well as tax evasion
  • Defending the finance director of a listed German company because of allegedly false financial statements