FIELDS OF LAW

Criminal Compliance

Our Criminal Compliance team stands for a holistic advisory approach and provides advice before, during and after criminal or administrative offense proceedings. Our clients therefore benefit from far-reaching and comprehensive preventive advice, strategic and effective defense, experienced support in internal investigations as well as practice-oriented development and implementation of effective compliance systems. We comprehensively incorporate new developments and trends from the entire compliance sector, both legally and through IT support.

We advise decision-makers and companies in the area of white-collar criminal law, in particular in connection with prevention, defense and representation in investigations and criminal proceedings.

We are familiar with the development, implementation and optimization of criminal law compliance management systems, including the performance of risk analyses within the company. We develop guidelines and codes of conduct and provide support in the creation of fact sheets and checklists. In addition, we offer training courses for employees and managers and also produce training materials. In the past, we have also supported clients in setting up and operating whistleblower systems (whistleblower hotline).

In collaboration with our Audit & Investigations team, we have supported clients in numerous investigations with IT forensic-based data analyses (eDiscovery, compliance tools) and achieved court-proof results through accompanying data protection and employment law analyses. In addition, our experts have conducted countless interviews and are experienced in the evaluation and strategic classification of investigation results.

Our Range of Services

  • Preliminary consultancy and representation in all stages of investigations
  • Consultancy and representation of companies in connection with investigations and criminal proceedings against employees and executives, including filing of criminal complaints
  • Defence of companies against (criminal) sanctions, registration of criminal records and other consequences
  • Consultancy and assistance in the event of searches in the company
  • Development, implementation, optimisation of criminal compliance management systems for companies including risk analysis
  • Drafting of guidelines, codes of conduct, instructions, check lists
  • Training for employees and executives, preparation of training materials also for structured training
  • Establishment and operation of whistleblower hotlines
  • Concepts for the prevention of compliance violations
  • Consultancy on dealing with compliance violations considering various aspects of other legal fields (data protection, tax law, foreign trade legislation, antitrust law etc.)
  • Analysis of the operative business in view of criminal aspects
  • Data analysis by using forensics IT tools (E-Search, Compliance-Tools)
  • Results that will stand up in court through supporting data protection and labour law analysis
  • Interviews
  • Evaluation and strategic assessment of investigation results

Team Criminal Compliance.