Expertise

White collar and tax criminal law, tax disputes, and compliance

Our lawyers provide comprehensive advice to individuals and companies, from preventive advice to expert work, and representation in all phases of official or judicial proceedings. They have an excellent national and international network to achieve optimal solutions for their clients.

White collar criminal law

We represent and defend individuals and organizations in criminal and administrative offence proceedings throughout Germany.

We advise our clients on the entire spectrum of white-collar criminal law. In addition, we act on the side of injured parties (e.g., by filing criminal complaints or the recovering of assets).

As part of our preventive criminal law advice, we prepare legal opinions and provide support in the context of internal investigations.

In the area of white collar criminal law, we advise in particular on the following topics

  • Labor criminal law
  • Foreign trade criminal law
  • Banking and capital markets criminal law
  • Fraud
  • Accounting offences
  • Data protection offences
  • Insolvency offences
  • Money laundering
  • Trade secret protection
  • Corruption
  • Antitrust criminal law
  • Food criminal law
  • Environmental criminal law
  • Breaching fiduciary duties / embezzlement
  • Forgery of documents
  • Withholding wages and salaries

Tax criminal law

A traditional focus of our law firm is advising on the entire field of tax criminal law, including related tax assessment and liability issues.

We advise in the following areas of tax criminal law

  • Criminal and administrative offence proceedings, especially for tax evasion, tax endangerment or receiving, holding or selling goods obtained by tax evasion
  • Parallel support of the taxation procedure (also together with your tax advisor)
  • Voluntary disclosures according to sections 371, 378 of the German Fiscal Code or according to German foreign trade law
  • Tax correction declarations (§ 153 of the German Fiscal Code)
  • Tax liability proceedings

Tax dispute tax audits

For our clients, we take care of proceedings before the tax authorities, the tax courts, including the Federal Fiscal Court, and advise on special tax issues.

We provide support in particular in the following cases

  • Objection proceedings (against freeze orders, tax and liability notices)
  • Proceedings for suspension of enforcement
  • Deferral and enforcement defence proceedings
  • Support for tax audits and special VAT/sales tax audits
  • Expert opinions on tax legal issues obtaining binding information from the tax authorities
  • Advice in the field of foreign tax law and international tax law

Compliance advice

We advise on all aspects of compliance management systems. The focus of our compliance advice is on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Our Compliance Advice includes

  • Carrying out risk analyses (also with regard to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act)
  • Creation of codes of conduct
  • Employee training
  • Internal investigations into suspicious cases
  • Proceedings for civil damages
  • Assumption of the function as complaints and internal reporting channel according to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act and the German Whistleblower Protection Act