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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. As an expert in the performance of internal company investigations, Andreas Minkoff possesses vast experience in providing assistance to mid-sized companies and “leading notable and complex mandates” (Chambers 2022) for large international corporations, including the implementation of complex large-scale proceedings and investigations. He is regarded as a “brilliant corporate defender” (JUVE 2023), who gets “strong market feedback” (Chambers 2022). His peers regard Andreas Minkoff as “outstanding” (JUVE 2022).

Curriculum vitae

  • Legal studies at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University, with a focus on criminal justice, criminal defence and prevention
  • Doctorate 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

brilliant corporate defender
JUVE 2022/23
strong market feedback
Chambers 2022
recommended in Business Crime Defence – Corporates
Who’s Who Legal 2022
one of “Germany’s best lawyers” in the area of commercial and tax criminal law
Handelsblatt 2023
very good professional work
JUVE 2022/23
TOP lawyer Compliance
WirtschaftsWoche 2023
excellent
JUVE 2021/22
leading notable and complex mandates
Chambers 2022
strategically solid and competent
JUVE 2021/22
experienced and committed defence counsel
JUVE 2021/22
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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

Internal 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

Frankfurt

Cologne

Munich