Dr Walther Graf

Profile

Dr Walther Graf is a founding partner of the firm. For over 25 years, he has been advising and representing corporates, management boards and executives in all questions of commercial and tax criminal law as well as regulatory offence proceedings under antitrust law. His practice areas range from corruption-related and capital markets offences through to antitrust criminal law and complex investigations of cum/ex scenarios.

He is considered an ‘outstanding strategist’ (JUVE) and ‘absolutely brilliant’ (Chambers). With his ‘wealth of experience’ (Lexology Index) and ‘very good connections to the public prosecutor’s office’, he is described as an ‘uncompromising representative of his clients’ (JUVE). A ‘straight shooter’, he not only ‘sets standards in corporate representation’ but is also ‘a safe pair of hands in antitrust proceedings’ (JUVE). Lexology Index (‘Global Elite Thought Leader’), F.A.Z., WirtschaftsWoche and Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers have listed him among the leading lawyers in commercial criminal law for many years.

Curriculum vitae

• Legal studies in Bielefeld and Bonn
• Doctoral thesis on the law of criminal procedure (Rasterfahndung und organisierte Kriminalität)
• Admission to the bar and lawyer at Redeker Sellner Dahs 1998
• Specialist lawyer for criminal law since 2001
• Founding and naming partner of the Feigen Graf law firm since 2001