New partner at W&R Weigell Rechtsanwälte

The partnership of W&R Weigell Rechtsanwälte is growing. From September 2024, attorney Dr Andreas Dürr will join the team with Manuela Beckert and Martina Butenschön.

Andreas is a criminal law/compliance expert and has many years of experience in leading major international law firms. He primarily advises and defends clients in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law as well as compliance. In doing so, he appears before tax authorities, public prosecutors' offices and courts as well as in the context of internal investigations. Insofar as there is a connection to compliance issues, he also conducts litigation before civil courts, in particular liability proceedings.

Andreas was born in Amberg in 1986, is married and the father of a son. He studied law at LMU Munich, the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Spain) and the University of Oxford. In England he earned the degree of "Magister Juris". In addition to his studies and doctorate, he completed subject-specific foreign language training in the legal languages English, French and Spanish. He completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, including stations at the Berlin Regional Court, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office and the German Federal Ministry of Finance.

He is a member of the Munich Bar Chamber of Lawyers (Rechtsanwaltskammer München), the Association of White Collar Criminal Law (Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V.), the German Institute for Compliance (Deutsches Institut für Compliance e.V.), the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.), and the Munich Bar Association (Münchener Anwaltverein e.V.). As the author of numerous specialist publications on criminal law and compliance topics, he regularly lectures at conferences.

Andreas Dürr is looking forward to getting to know you and is at your disposal for an introductory meeting.