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Florian Block advises companies from a wide range of industries in the field of compliance management, with particular expertise in providing preventive advice on establishing or expanding appropriate compliance structures, setting up whistleblower systems throughout Europe and around the world and conducting compliance trainings. Florian Block is also very experienced in dealing with compliance violations, including internal investigations, cooperating with investigating authorities, e.g., in official investigations, recovering assets as well as extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of claims for damages.
As a second focus, Florian advises companies on product liability and product safety issues. His practice in this field covers all legal aspects, including compliance with relevant regulations, prevention of liability, defence against product liability claims as well as organising national and international recalls.
Florian regularly trains board members, managing directors and staff on general compliance and anti-corruption matters as well as on product liability issues.
Florian started his legal career with Mayer Brown LLP in Frankfurt in 2006 and joined CMS in 2008 where he has been a partner since 2017. In 2014, he took over the position of interim compliance officer at a DAX-30 company for five months and in the same year was also seconded to Gibbons P.C. in New York as a foreign associate.
