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Lawyers for compliance

CMS’ compliance lawyers focus on prevention and crisis management. By developing effective compliance structures that are tailored to a company’s specific requirements, they help clients to avoid legal violations and minimise liability risk.

The CMS Compliance & Forensic Services unit brings together lawyers for compliance from every area of commercial law, ranging from customs matters to employment. Thanks to these broad skills, we are ideally placed to identify compliance risks fast and take effective countermeasures. You benefit from having a single contact who will track all the relevant compliance issues and guide you safely through the crisis. 

Our compliance lawyers work closely with specialists from other disciplines – defence lawyers, e-discovery providers, crisis PR consultants, auditors and commercial investigative agencies – whose main role is to help detect and resolve violations as part of an internal investigation.

Further down this page is a list with the contact details of our compliance lawyers. Feel free to contact us at any time.

More information on our compliance services can be found here.

 
Harald W Potinecke
Dr. Harald W Potinecke
Partner
Rechtsanwalt | Head of Compliance & Forensic Services, CMS Germany
Germany, Munich
Harald W. Potinecke advises companies on product liability and compliance, in particular in the context of introducing and implementing compliance management systems, which also includes implementing...
Dietmar Rahlmeyer
Dr. Dietmar Rahlmeyer
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Duesseldorf
Dietmar Rahlmeyer‘s practice concentrates on antitrust, compliance and commercial law matters. He has long-standing experience advising his clients on and representing them in cartel fine proceedings...
Christian Runte
Christian Runte
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Munich
Christian Runte specializes in technology projects, with a special focus on data protection law. He is also widely experienced in handling German and international technology transactions and IT outsourcing...
Petra Schaffner
Dr. Petra Schaffner
Partner
Rechtsanwältin
Germany, Cologne
Petra Schaffner is a specialist in the areas of corporate/M&A and corporate compliance. She advises on all areas of corporate and partnership law, including providing advice on the law relating to stock...
Markus Schöner
Dr. Markus Schöner, M.Jur. (Oxford)
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Hamburg
Markus Schöner is a specialist for EU and German antitrust law, including merger control. His competition law expertise is in particular demand in the context of setting up selective distribution systems...
Sören Seidel
Sören Seidel
Partner
Rechtsanwalt | Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht (Certified lawyer for labor and employment law)
Germany, Hamburg
Sören Seidel specialises in providing employment law advice on complex restructurings, strategic acquisitions and outsourcings. With many years of consultancy work, he has extensive experience in negotiations...
Philipp Senff
Philipp Senff
Partner
Representative | Head of Compliance, CMS Hasche Sigle Shanghai Representative Office (Germany)
China, Shanghai
Philipp Senff is recognised as leading corporate, compliance and risk management expert with over 16 years’ of China-related work and business experience. He has extensive experience in advising multinational...
Thomas Sonnenberg
Dr. Thomas Sonnenberg
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Cologne
As a highly regarded expert on international corporate structures, Thomas Sonnenberg specialises in the field of strategic compliance and corporate governance. His practice also covers corporate and stock...
Jakob Steiff
Dr. Jakob Steiff, LL.M. (Edinburgh)
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Frankfurt
Jakob Steiff is a partner and leads a team of five lawyers advising on procurement law and public commercial law at the firm’s Frankfurt office. He has extensive experience in planning and implementing...
Oliver Thurn
Dr. Oliver Thurn, LL.M. (Univ. London)
Partner
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Munich
Oliver Thurn advises on M&A, private equity and real estate transactions, both in a national and cross-border context. Oliver also advises on corporate structuring matters. Having worked in London for...