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Florian Singer

Lawyer

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Gauermanngasse 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
Languages German, English

Florian Singer is an attorney-at-law for Economic and Financial Criminal Law. He is an experienced defence attorney in national and international corporate crime and corporate criminal liability proceedings, as well as a representative attorney in extradition proceedings and adhesion procedures (crime victims' compensation). In addition, he advises on crisis situations (e.g. house searches), compliance issues, money laundering prevention, and internal investigations. Florian Singer is admitted to the Austrian Bar.

After completing his law studies at the University of Vienna, Singer worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, he switched from academia to practice at a large Austrian tax consulting and auditing firm in the area of financial criminal law, and then completed his legal training at a law firm specialising in economic and financial criminal law in Linz and Vienna. From 2016, he worked in a renowned boutique law firm in Vienna with a focus on legal advice and representation in national and international economic and financial criminal cases as well as extradition proceedings. He has been an attorney at CMS in Vienna since 2021.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Association of Austrian Criminal Defence Lawyers
  • Austrian Society for Criminal Law and Criminology
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Publications

  • Brandstetter/Singer in Birklbauer/​Haumer/​Nimmervoll/​Wess (eds.), StPO - Linzer Kommentar zur Strafprozessordnung §§ 106, 107 StPO, Verlag Österreich, 2024.
  • Singer in Hinterhofer (ed.) Salzburger Kommentar zum Strafgesetzbuch §§ 156, 157 und 158 StGB, LexisNexis ARD ORAC, 2024.
  • Brandstetter/Singer in Birklbauer/Haumer/Nimmervoll/Wess (eds.), StPO – Linzer Kommentar zur Strafprozessordnung §§ 106, 107 StPO (Verlag Österreich 2020).
  • Höcher/Singer in Gabriel/Höcher/Höpfel/Lehner/Mahler/Scharmüller/Singer (eds.), Prüfungstrainer Strafrecht AT I und BT (Verlag Österreich 2019), Bearbeitung Strafrecht AT I.
  • Rebisant/Singer, Das Strafrechtsänderungsgesetz 2015, ZWF 4/2015, 150.
  • Schmieder/Singer, Das Bankschließfach, ZWF 4/2015, 170.
  • Schmieder/Singer, Anmerkungen zum Ministerialentwurf des StRÄG 2015 aus Verteidigersicht, ZWF 3/2015, 107.
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Education

  • 2013 - Certificate Financial Criminal Law Expert, Academy of Tax Advisors and Auditors
  • 2005 - Mag. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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12/10/2022
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27/05/2021
Criminal law expert Florian Singer joins CMS
More white-collar criminal proceedings, stricter compliance rules, greater liability risks: CMS brings Florian Singer on board and expands its capacity to deal with white-collar criminal law in Austria...
10/05/2021
Avoid criminal liability during the crisis
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