Dr Bernd Gross, LL.M.
Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for criminal law
Partner
Profile
Dr Bernd Gross has been a partner at Feigen Graf since 2007. His work ranges from individual defence briefs relating to white-collar crime and tax criminal law to the provision of advisory services and the representation of corporate clients, also in an international context. Bernd Gross’s focus areas include banking, capital markets, tax and environmental criminal law, particularly in connection with advisory services in cum/ex and cum/cum proceedings and investigations into money laundering, fraud and so-called greenwashing cases.
“Dr Bernd Gross is highly regarded for his competence, both for individual defence briefs as well as corporate representation” (Chambers 2024). He is regarded as an “outstanding professional” (JUVE 2022/23) and has a good “sense for pragmatic solutions” (JUVE 2023/24). He is well known for his “self-assured handling of challenging and complex mandates” (JUVE 2021/22). In 2024, Handelsblatt honours him as “Lawyer of the Year” in the field of tax criminal law. Who’s Who Legal rates Dr Gross in 2023, as “Global Elite Thought Leader” in the field of commercial criminal law.
Curriculum vitae
- Legal studies at University of Heidelberg
- LL.M. studies in commercial criminal law at the University of Osnabrück
- Doctoral thesis on criminal law at Heidelberg University (Die strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit faktischer Vertretungsorgane bei Kapitalgesellschaften)
- Lawyer at Feigen Graf since 2004
- Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law since 2008
- Partner at Feigen Graf since 2007
References
Areas of Practice
Criminal employment law
Capital markets criminal law
Consumer criminal law
Embezzlement proceedings
Banking criminal law
Antitrust fine proceedings
Tax criminal law
Antitrust criminal law
Cum/ex-proceedings
Criminal law on corruption
Environmental criminal law
Selected Publications
Current Trends in White-Collar Crime in Germany
Gross
Financier Worldwide Magazine, 12/2021
§ 4 – Management liability and vicarious liability in corporate groups
Gross
Konzernstrafrecht, 64 ff., 2020
Commentary on sections 377-378
Gross
Heidelberger Kommentar zum Steuerstrafrecht, 461 ff., 2020
Selected Presentations
Requirements for the proportionality of aggregate sentences – corporate criminal law without boundaries?
7. Unternehmensstrafrechtliche Tage, Heidelberg, 04.11.2022
Cryptoassets and examples from the practice (in particular, money laundering and other cyber-crimes relating to cryptocurrencies)
26. Finanzstrafrechtliche Tagung Leitner&Leitner, Linz, 22.09.2022
Reputation and defence of secondary parties
BB-Fachkonferenz Update – Haftung in Cum-Ex Verfahren, 2021