Dr Andreas Minkoff
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Dr Andreas Minkoff heads the firm’s Munich office. He primarily represents and advises corporate clients in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law, including regulatory offences. He is also an expert in conducting compliance investigations.
Dr Andreas Minkoff is considered a ‘well-connected strategist’ and ‘brilliant corporate defence lawyer’ (JUVE) with ‘special expertise in internal investigations’ (Legal 500). He has ‘extensive experience’ in advising companies and ‘handling remarkable and complex mandates’ (Chambers). Legal 500 ranks Dr Andreas Minkoff among the strongest partners in advising companies on commercial criminal law. Handelsblatt has repeatedly recognised him as one of Germany’s best lawyers in the field of commercial and tax criminal law.
Dr Andreas Minkoff has also been awarded the Lexology Client Choice Award 2026 for Business Crime Defence Germany. This award is based exclusively on nominations from corporate lawyers and recognises lawyers who stand out from the rest of the market through excellent client service, exceptional service quality and clear added value for their clients’ businesses.
Curriculum vitae
- Legal studies at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University, with a focus on criminal justice, criminal defence and prevention
- Doctoral thesis at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Sanktionsbewehrte Aufsichtspflichten im internationalen Konzern – Der Normadressat des § 130 OWiG im Unternehmensverbund unter Berücksichtigung grenzüberschreitender Sachverhalte, which received the faculty award in 2015)
- Lawyer and Partner at Roxin
- Member of the criminal procedure committee of the German Bar Association
- Lawyer and Partner at Feigen Graf since 2023
References
Areas of practice
Criminal employment law
Capital markets criminal law
Criminal law on corruption
Administrative offence proceedings
Tax criminal law
Antitrust criminal law
Fraud and embezzlement proceedings
Consumer criminal law
Antitrust fine proceedings
Tax and customs criminal law
Compliance investigations
Export Control Criminal Law
Selected Publications
CORPORATE CRIMINAL LAW
Minkoff/Sahan/Wittig (Ed.)
Handbook, 2020
OMISSION AND OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY IN CORPORATIONS
Minkoff/Sahan/Wittig
Article, 91 ff., 2020
FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS WITH THE USE OF DEBTOR WARRANTS
Minkoff/Sahan
ZIS, 317 ff., 2018
LEGALLY BINDING DUTIES OF SUPERVISION IN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS – THE NORM ADDRESSEE OF § 130 OWIG (ACT ON REGULATORY OFFENCES) IN THE GROUP OF COMPANIES, IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRANSNATIONAL MATTERS
Monograph
Dissertation, 2016
SUPERVISORY BOARD AND COMPLIANCE
Article, Minkoff/Schemmel
Der Aufsichtsrat, 95, 2013
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMERCIAL CRIMINAL LAW FOR COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND AUDITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH IDW PS 980
Minkoff/Schemmel
CCZ, 49 ff., 2012
CRIMINAL LAW RISKS OF SUPERVISORY ACTIVITY – OVERVIEW OF THE EXTENT AND LIMITS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Minkoff/Schemmel
C-Mngt, 82 ff., 2011
Selected presentations
The Chief Compliance Officer from a corporate defence perspective
Compliance Management Summit, 2022
Chief Compliance Officer in white-collar criminal proceedings
Chief Compliance Officer Summit
Chief Compliance Officer Kongress, 2022
Consequences of non-compliance – competition register, self-cleaning and criminal law
9. Vergabetag Bayern, 2021
Compliance and criminal law
Bundeskongress Compliance Management, 2021
Compliance during criminal investigations
Compliance & Kartellrecht Kongress, 2021
Difficulties in dealing with compliance violations
Bundeskongress Compliance Management, 2019
Corporate defence in corruption cases
Deutsche Richterakademie, 2019
Criminal investigations against the company and its responsible persons
Compliance Summit 2019
Criminal investigation proceedings against in-house lawyers – current developments
Syndikus Summit 2019