Dr. Andreas Dürr, M.Jur. (Oxford)

Lawyer | Partner*

Criminal Defence Lawyer & Compliance Expert

Dr. Andreas Dürr advises and defends clients nationwide in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law as well as criminal compliance.

He represents individuals and companies before tax authorities, public prosecutors and courts as well as in the context of internal investigations.

Where there is a connection to compliance issues, Mr. Dürr also appears before civil courts, in particular in liability proceedings (so-called compliance litigation), as well as in professional law proceedings.

In individual cases, he also acts as a defense lawyer in general criminal law.

Andreas has particular expertise in the area of international and European criminal law, including mutual legal assistance and extradition issues.

In addition to his native German, Andreas speaks English, French and Spanish.

Contact details

E: andreas.duerr@weigell.de
T: +49 89 242158-90
F: +49 89 242158-99

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CV

  • Law studies at the LMU Munich, the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo (Spain), and Magister Juris at the University of Oxford (England).
  • Law-specific foreign language training in English, French and Spanish.
  • Research assistant at the Chair of German, European and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law as well as White Collar Crime at LMU Munich.
  • Carlo Schmid Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague (Netherlands).
  • Legal clerkship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court with traineeships at the Berlin Regional Court, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Ministry of Finance and renowned law firms.
  • Doctorate in international criminal law with the grade summa cum laude. Awarded the doctoral prize of the Faculty of Law of the LMU Munich.
  • Lawyer in leading international law firms (Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Gibson Dunn Crutcher LLP) in the areas of white-collar/tax criminal law and compliance.
  • Since 2024 partner at W&R Weigell Rechtsanwälte mbB.

Memberships

  • Munich Bar Chamber of Lawyers (Rechtsanwaltskammer München)
  • Association of White Collar Criminal Law (Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V.)
  • German Institute for Compliance (Deutsches Institut für Compliance e.V.)
  • German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.)
  • Munich Bar Association (Münchener Anwaltverein e.V.)
  • LKC Group
  • Association of scholarship holders and former scholarship holders of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Verband der Stipendiaten und Altstipendiaten der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit e.V.)

Publications

  • The reform of English corporate criminal law through the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (CCZ 2024, 31-37) (in German, together with Katharina Humphrey and Anita Schieffer).
  • London tightens corporate criminal law, Börsen-Zeitung of 25 November 2023 (in German, together with Katharina Humphrey and Amy Cooke).
  • How Ambitious New EU Directive Seeks To Fight Corruption, Law360 Expert Analysis (online article) (together with Katharina Humphrey).
  • Greenwashing – Liability Traps and their Avoidance, CCZ 2022, 377-381 (in German, together with Finn Zeidler).
  • Favouring works council members – when is it criminal?, NZWiSt 2021, 176-181 (in German, together with Mark Zimmer).
  • Internal Investigations – quo vadis?, in: Bange (ed.), Arbeitswelt der Zukunft – Die Gesellschaft im Wandel des 21. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen 2019, pp. 53-70 (in German, together with André Große Vorholt).
  • "Whistleblowing" in the professional world of the 21st century, in: Bange (ed.), Arbeitswelt der Zukunft – Die Gesellschaft im Wandel des 21. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen 2019, pp. 107-124 (in German, together with André Große Vorholt).
  • Whistleblowing 2.0 – Redesign of the Reporting Channels and Renaissance of the Ombudsman Model?, Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel 8/2019 (in German, together with André Große Vorholt).
  • Functional equivalents of the doctrine of multiple offending in common law jurisdictions, dissertation, Mohr Siebeck 2019 (in German).
  • On the attribution of excessive acts according to recent English case law, ZIS 2019, 252-262 (in German).
  • Marcus Hartmann, Reform Models for Punishing Bribery of Members of Parliament, ZIS 2014, 295-298 (book review) (in German).
  • Germany's System of Preventive Detention Considered Through the European Court of Human Rights and the German Federal Constitutional Court, EuCLR 2012, 158-181 (together with Michael Pösl).

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* Dr Dürr is employed by the partnership as salary partner and is not a shareholder of the partnership.