Compliance & Forensic Services

Our more than 65 compliance specialists at eight locations in Germany offer you comprehensive compliance advice.

Overview of our consulting portfolio – qualified and experienced in prevention and crisis management

We offer you the interface expertise to recognise risks quickly and efficiently and to support you both preventively and investigatively in all compliance issues.

Successful prevention

Our Compliance team offers assistance with:

• Developing, implementing and optimising compliance programmes
• Risk management (compliance due diligence, business partner screening, compliance clauses in agreements)
• Setting up and managing reporting systems (whistleblower hotline, ombudsman)
• Establishing compliance guidelines and conducting training (e.g. on anti-corruption, competition law, prevention of money laundering, IT security and data protection, capital markets law, product safety, procurement law and export control)

Managing a compliance crisis

With our holistic approach, we offer you a single point of contact who has an overview of all relevant compliance aspects and can navigate you through the crisis efficiently and from a single source:

• Informing management and the relevant supervisory bodies of their duties in a compliance crisis situation and developing a crisis management plan
• Planning, managing and conducting internal investigations
• Establishing the facts of the matter, searching documents and e-mail messages with the aid of forensic tools, interviewing employees
• Developing resolution strategies and identifying immediate steps to be taken
• Managing defence lawyers, auditors, e-discovery providers, private investigators and crisis PR consultants
• Advising on cooperation with the investigating authorities
• Development of amnesty programmes and crown witness arrangements
• Legal support before and during an official investigation (dawn raid)
• Dawn raid training
• Representation in subsequent official or court proceedings