Europe - Germany • Compliance

DLA Piper

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DLA Piper‘s interdisciplinary investigations expertise is regularly called upon by DAX companies from all industries, where the team advises in the context of alleged money laundering, tax offenses and corruption as well as foreign trade law and antitrust law violations. A mainstay is the cooperation with the renowned criminal law practice, here, Emanuel Ballo (corporate and employee representation), senior counsel Jürgen Taschke (criminal law) and Christian Schoop (environmental crimes, cyber attacks) are the key contacts; The latter jointly heads the compliance team with Jens Kirchner, who is experienced in employment law-related investigations. Moritz von Hesberg focuses on corporate law investigations and made partner in May 2023.

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  • 'Trustful, longstanding collaboration with Emanuel Ballo and his team. Practical, highly competent advice in the context of compliance incidents and internal investigations, excellent international network and partner law firms. Fast response times.'
  • 'High level of advisory competence paired with a lot of technical expertise and very good assertiveness of the client's position, even in difficult negotiations.'

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Key clients

  • Deutsche Bahn AG

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Work highlights

  • Support and implementation of an internal, independent investigation for Deutsche Bahn; including investigation report to the company's board of directors.
  • Conducting a comprehensive internal investigation at the Chinese subsidiary of an international forestry, gardening and landscape maintenance company into possible criminal offenses (in particular corruption) and compliance violations by employees and (former) managers.

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