With the advancing complexity and regulation of global, digital business life, individuals and companies are increasingly likely to be confronted with allegations of criminal or administrative misconduct.
In such cases, professional, focused responses are vital from the outset. We advise both companies and individuals in all areas of commercial criminal law and criminal tax law.
We assist our clients in identifying and minimising current and future risks. To this end, we develop and implement compliance programmes and help optimise existing compliance structures.
We conduct internal investigations targeted at establishing the facts necessary to verify indications of misconduct and to secure evidence for possible use in court.
Our experts represent and defend clients against law enforcement, supervisory, antitrust and data protection authorities, and also against tax fraud authorities as well as against customs offices. We accompany dawn raids and offer a nationwide on-call service for this purpose.
We represent injured parties in criminal proceedings against perpetrators, enforce damages claims and offer asset tracing and asset recovery.
Our experts advise companies from various sectors focuses not only on criminal law and administrative offences but also on all other relevant areas of law as corporate law, labour law, data protection law and tax law. Our international network allows us to assist in cross-border cases.
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Where you have information that indicates a compliance infringement, it is imperative that you act immediately to establish the facts.
Internal investigations are therefore essential for good compliance. They clarify facts, limit the possible damages caused to your company and help you learn for the future from any identified issues.
Committed, internal fact-finding investigations can help minimise or avoid any impending damage to reputation, massive personal criminal and civil liability risks, severe fines, the loss of credibility towards third parties and the imposition of official requirements or restrictions.
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Complex tax requirements and facts and a change in the tax authorities’ approach to tax errors make it vital that your processes are tax compliant in order to minimise risks.
Since May 2016, the tax authorities have rewarded tax compliance. The Decree on the Application of § 153 of the Fiscal Code (AEAO zu §153) recognises the protective effect of internal control systems and considers such systems an indication that any act cannot be reckless or intentional and therefore cannot constitute an offence or criminal act when such systems are utilised.
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