Hanns W. Feigen
Profile
Hanns Feigen is a founding partner of the firm. For over 40 years, he has been advising and representing individuals and corporates with regard to all questions of commercial and tax criminal law as well as antitrust law. His focus areas include banking, capital markets, environmental and tax criminal law. “His expertise therefore covers an impressive spectrum” (Chambers 2024). Looking back on an “impressive track record” (Legal 500 2021), Hanns Feigen has represented numerous renowned companies and high-profile individuals over the past decades. He is a “highly regarded professional” in the industry and noted as “efficient” in advising and representing his clients (JUVE 2022/23). Who’s Who Legal (2023) emphasises his “excellent defence of clients”, describing him as a “leading light” in the German market. Chambers lists Hanns Feigen as a “Star Individual”, Legal 500 2024 included him in the “Hall of Fame” of commercial criminal law.
Hanns Feigen has been instrumental in establishing the firm – from the very beginning – as one of Germany’s leading law firms in the area of commercial and tax criminal law.
Curriculum vitae
- Legal studies, and undergraduate studies in medicine at Bonn University
- Academic assistant to Professor Dr Rudolphi
- Lawyer at Redeker Sellner Dahs 1983
- Partner at Redeker Sellner Dahs 1987
- Founding and naming partner of the Feigen Graf law firm since 2001
References
Areas of Practice
Criminal employment law
Banking criminal law
Capital markets criminal law
Tax criminal law
Criminal law on corruption
Medical criminal law
Administrative offence proceedings
Environmental criminal law
Embezzlement proceedings
Antitrust criminal law
Selected Publications
Indiscretions to the detriment of the accused – a report from actual application
Feigen
Zöller/Esser, Justizielle Medienarbeit im Strafverfahren, 105 ff., 2019
Risks for employers under section 266a StG
Feigen/Livonius
Festschrift für Wolf Schiller, 147 ff., 2014
§ 6 Limitation
Feigen/Graf
Volk, Münchener Anwaltshandbuch – Verteidigung in Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafsachen, 2. Aufl., 2014
Selected Presentations
Crisis management
BB-Fachkonferenz, Frankfurt am Main, 12. November 2019
Keynote address on transparent companies, transparent staff – opportunities and limits of corporate compliance management
3. Deutscher Arbeitsrechtstag, Berlin, 18.01.2018
What do companies expect from defence lawyers? What do defence lawyers expect from companies?
16. NStZ-Jahrestagung, Frankfurt am Main, 23.06.2017