COMMERCIAL CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL TAX LAW

The terms economic crime and commercial criminal law refer to the sum of all crimes and offences which involve punishment for specific actions in economic life. Criminal tax law, as an independent element of commercial criminal law, is a broad term which includes all violations of criminal law provisions related to tax, customs and subsidies.

In commercial criminal law and criminal tax law, the relevant criminal provisions are not gathered together in a single piece of legislation, they are distributed – in more than 200 national German laws – in the core criminal law provisions of the German Criminal Code (StGB), in the supplementary criminal law provisions (Fiscal Code/AO, Stock Corporation Act/AktG, Foreign Trade Act/AWG, of Companies Act/GmbHG, Commercial Code/HGB, War Weapons Control Act/KrWaffKontrG, Securities Trading Act/WpHG etc.) and in international agreements (EU Anti-Corruption Act/EUBestG, Act to Combat International Corruption/IntBestG etc.). As defence lawyers specialising in commercial criminal law and criminal tax law, this is part of our everyday work.

Anyone who is confronted with such allegations as a manager, director, Supervisory Board member or leading employee of a large or small company or as a self-employed business entrepreneur or freelance professional will be helpless in face of the accusations without a competent defence lawyer.

We can help you as a defence lawyer if you are faced with such difficult and often stressful situations. We represent and defend you as you instruct, especially in the following selected areas of commercial criminal law and criminal tax law: