Taylor Wessing

China Compliance, Investigations, China Corporate

Partner

With over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in both Germany and China and as an internationally recognised expert in the fields of compliance and corporate/M&A, Mike heads the Shanghai office and primarily advises medium-sized companies and globally-operating groups in their activities in the People’s Republic of China.

He focuses his practice on advising subsidiaries or joint ventures on all phases of the development and localisation of compliance-management systems both in a preventive and investigative manner in the context of internal investigations, mainly concerning business activities between Germany/Europe and China. Mike combines legal expertise with extensive knowledge of the country with a broad intercultural understanding, which is essential in dealing with sensitive issues relating to compliance such as anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, fraud, or breach of trust.

Since 2009 Partner, Taylor Wessing 2007 – 2009 Associate Partner, Rödl & Partner, Beijing 2003 – 2007 Associate, Rödl & Partner, Nürnberg, Shanghai & Beijing 2001 – 2003 Legal clerkship, Bielefeld & Shanghai

English, German

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2003 Second state examination, Düsseldorf 2001 – 2003 Legal clerkship, Bielefeld 2000 First state examination, Dresden 1995 – 2000 Legal degree, University of Dresden