Am 17.11.2021 ist Dr. Florian Ufer im Online Forum Strafverteidigung Referent in Modul 16 zum Thema „Strafverteidigung gegen Pressemitteilungen der Justiz“. https://strafverteidigertag.de/online-forum-strafverteidigung-2021/
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Anwalt des Jahres für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht 2023/2024 (Bayern) – Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers
Anwalt des Jahres für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht 2023/2024 (Bayern) – Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers
Dr. Florian Ufer is lawyer and named partner at UFER SCHARF.
Criminal defence and its strategy are his great passion. In the interest of his clients, the quiet settlement of charges outside the public is regularly the primary objective.
Dr Florian Ufer acts as defence counsel across Germany as well as in Europe and the USA. He advises in German, English and French and speaks Italian and Spanish. In 2017 he co-founded the international network Global Criminal Law Counsel (GCLC).
Dr Florian Ufer has years of experience as a practicing attorney in all fields of criminal law both in and outside the court room. He is vastly experienced in advising on and coordinating complex transnational investigation proceedings in various jurisdictions across the world.
He advises and defends national and international companies and their decision makers in all aspects of commercial criminal law and criminal tax law as well as in administrative fine proceedings and in all criminal law aspects of internal investigations and civil proceedings.
He is currently advising and defending, inter alia, car manufacturer Mercedes Benz AG in the investigation proceedings led by the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor into the so-called “diesel scandal”, the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in proceedings concerning the advice given in connection to cum/ex trades, the main accused entrepreneur in the so-called mask scandals involving members of parliament Nüßlein and Sauter, attorneys, managers and board members in the so-called “VW emissions scandal” or regarding Siemens AG’s alleged breach of the Crimea embargo, as well as FC Bayern München.
Dr Florian Ufer defends in all fields of criminal law, in particular
The business paper Handelsblatt counts Dr Ufer as one of the “best attorneys 2022” in its annual ranking. He is listed in the JUVE handbook since 2012 (i.a. “extremely good and pragmatic advice”; “highly qualified, fast, reliable”; “exceptional skills and good team player”). The JUVE Handbook for criminal tax law and tax law 2020 describes Dr Ufer as “highly regarded” and “very cooperative”. In the German business magazines Wirtschaftswoche and FOCUS he is since 2014 ranked as one of the most acclaimed attorneys in the field of white-collar crime and listed as a “top criminal law attorney”. Chambers and Partners feature him in the field of “Dispute resolution: White Collar Crime” (“regularly defending clients against allegations of corruption, tax fraud and capital market crimes.”).
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Dr Florian Ufer is an advisory board member of the the Journal for Commercial Criminal law and Corporate Liability (Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht und Haftung im Unternehmen; ZWH).
He is also an author in the areas of compliance and corporate criminal law as well as §§ 263, 266, 298-302, 333-336 StGB (German Criminal Code) including the provisions on European and international anti-bribery in the commentary on distribution law by Flohr/Wauschkuhn in the “grey series” of the C.H.Beck publishing house.
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Am 17.11.2021 ist Dr. Florian Ufer im Online Forum Strafverteidigung Referent in Modul 16 zum Thema „Strafverteidigung gegen Pressemitteilungen der Justiz“. https://strafverteidigertag.de/online-forum-strafverteidigung-2021/
Herr Dr. Ufer referiert am 05.04.2019 im Rahmen des 5. Internationalen Strafrechtstags gemeinsam mit Professor Dr. Esser und Ricarda Lang zum Thema Grenzüberschreitende Verfahren als Herausforderung für die Verteidigung.
07.- 08. Februar 2014 – Rechtsanwälte Dr. Florian Ufer und Dr. Christoph Knauer referieren im Rahmen des Fachanwaltskurses für Strafrecht zum Thema „Strafprozessrecht und Strafverteidigung“.
08. – 09. November 2013 – Rechtsanwälte Dr. Florian Ufer und Dr. Christoph Knauer referieren im Rahmen des Fachanwaltskurses für Strafrecht zum Thema „Strafprozessrecht und Strafverteidigung“.
01.-03. Juni 2012 – Rechtsanwälte Dr. Florian Ufer und Dr. Christoph Knauer referieren im Rahmen des Fachanwaltskurses für Strafrecht (Fürstenberg Seminare) zu allgemeinen Themen der StPO.
11.-12. Juni 2010 – Dr. Christoph Knauer und Dr. Florian Ufer halten in München einen Kurs im Rahmen des Fachanwaltslehrgangs Strafrecht der Fürstenberg Seminare in Kooperation mit dem Verlag C.H. Beck.
04.-05. Juni 2010 – Dr. Christoph Knauer und Dr. Florian Ufer halten in Hamburg einen Kurs im Rahmen des Fachanwaltslehrgangs Strafrecht der Fürstenberg Seminare in Kooperation mit dem Verlag C.H. Beck.
20.-21. Mai 2010 – Dr. Florian Ufer und Dr. Christoph Knauer halten in Frankfurt/Offenbach einen Kurs im Rahmen des Fachanwaltslehrgangs Strafrecht der Fürstenberg Seminare in Kooperation mit dem Verlag C.H. Beck.
14.-15. Mai 2010 – Dr. Christoph Knauer und Dr. Florian Ufer halten in Neuss einen Kurs im Rahmen des Fachanwaltslehrgangs Strafrecht der Fürstenberg Seminare in Kooperation mit dem Verlag C.H. Beck.
Dr Florian Ufer is Co-Founder of the international lawyer network Global Criminal Law Counsel (GCLC) and the advisory board of (ZWH).
German, English, French and Italian
Anwalt des Jahres für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht 2022/2023 (Bayern) – Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers
Dr Norbert Scharf is lawyer and partner at UFER SCHARF.
He is one of the most experienced and successful criminal lawyers in Germany. His profession and his passion is criminal defence.
He has been sought after and active in this field for years, especially by executives, and has been and is active in the major economic and tax criminal proceedings in Germany and Europe. Wherever possible, he avoids public reporting and relies on his great successes and a high reputation in professional circles and his large professional network.
Constructive cooperation with the renowned lawyers and law firms in this field of activity is an important element, as far as the factual and legal situation allows.
Dr Norbert Scharf advises and defends executives as well as companies in the business world in all phases of criminal proceedings, also drawing on his many years of experience as a partner in a law firm which, in addition to criminal law, also covered the interfaces with other areas of law (e.g. civil law directors’ and officers’ liability, corporate law, insolvency law, insurance law, professional law).
Defence in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law, in particular
According to Handelsblatt and the international industry magazine Best Lawyers, he has been one of Germany’s best lawyers in the field of white-collar crime/criminal defense for years. In the leading industry magazine JUVE, he is recommended in 2022 as “strateg. strong, extremely qualified, factual, confident, advises at a high level”.
Successfully handled and publicly known procedures (not finalized):
German and English
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Certified specialist in criminal law
089 5587199-0
089 5587199-77 (Fax)
buhlmann@uferscharf.de
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Dr. Erik Buhlmann is lawyer and Partner at UFER SCHARF.
As a well experienced criminal defense attorney, Dr. Erik Buhlmann is active throughout Germany, other European countries as well as in US-related proceedings, and has access to a large professional network both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Erik Buhlmann has extensive experience in all areas of criminal law and criminal procedure as well as many years of trial experience before all national courts, the German Federal Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court, and most recently, repeatedly before the European Court. He is therefore regularly approached and mandated in the major white collar and criminal tax law proceedings in Germany and Europe.
Dr. Erik Buhlmann advises and defends national and international companies and their executives in all areas of white collar and criminal law, in administrative fine proceedings (including breaches of supervisory/organizational duties) as well as in all criminal law aspects of internal investigations and civil disputes. He regularly advises management and supervisory board members, in particular with regard to high-risk decision-making processes in light of the business judgment rule.
Dr. Erik Buhlmann also regularly and successfully handles appeal proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice as well as constitutional complaints.
According to Handelsblatt and the international industry magazine Best Lawyers, Dr. Erik Buhlmann is one of Germany’s “best lawyers in white collar criminal defence” in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Successfully handled and publicly known procedures (not finalized):
German and English
Dr Andreas Weitzell is a lawyer and partner at UFER SCHARF in Munich.
The focus of his activities is on preventive and sustainable consulting for companies, their business leaders and senior executives. Based on a targeted internal clarification of the suspicions or accusations, he then develops an effective and balanced strategy for and with the persons concerned in order to act as a corrective to excessive and erroneous investigative and punitive measures.
Dr Andreas Weitzell also represents the interests of his clients in front of all German courts. In particular, he can draw on extensive forensic experience from complex and publicly supervised commercial criminal proceedings.
According to the “Handelsblatt” (German economic daily newspaper) and the international industry magazine “Best Lawyers”, he is one of Germany’s top lawyers in 2021 and 2022 in the field of white-collar crime/criminal defense. In the leading industry magazine JUVE, he is increasingly often recommended by competitors in 2022 as “smart, very dilligent, reliable” as well as “level-headed, collegial”.
His professional emphasis are insolvency criminal law (Delayed filing of insolvency, bankruptcy crimes) and capital market criminal law (Insider dealing, market manipulation i. a.). In addition, he advises primarily on criminal tax law, here in particular on international fund structures.
Dr Andreas Weitzell publishes regularly in professional media to the above-named fields of law.
Defence in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law, in particular
According to Handelsblatt and the international industry magazine Best Lawyers, he is one of Germany’s best lawyers in 2021 and 2022 in the field of white-collar crime/criminal defence. In the leading industry magazine JUVE, he is increasingly often recommended by competitors in 2022 as “smart, very hard-working, reliable” as well as “level-headed, collegial”.
Successfully handled and publicly known procedures (not finalized):
German and English
Salary Partner
Certified specialist in criminal law
089 5587199-0
089 5587199-77 (Fax)
weber@uferscharf.de
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Manuel Weber is lawyer and salary partner at UFER SCHARF.
As a criminal defense attorney he defends and advises nationwide before all German courts. He has many years of experience in all areas of criminal law and extensive forensic trial experience.
Attorney Weber advises in German and English, and speaks French.
Defense in all areas of criminal law, especially
Successfully handled and publicly known procedures (not finalized):
German and English
Dr. Jendrik Adam is lawyer and salary partner at UFER SCHARF.
He advises and defends national and multinational companies, their executives, and employees in all areas of white-collar crime (especially commercial criminal law and tax criminal law) as well as in administrative fine proceedings and in all criminal law aspects of internal investigations and civil litigation.
Dr. Jendrik Adam acts as a defense counsel across all German courts and regularly advises on international matters. For this purpose, he can draw on extensive forensic experience from complex and publicly supervised white-collar criminal proceedings.
Among other things, he has had research stays of several months in New York (NYU) and Cape Town (UWC).
According to Handelsblatt and the international industry magazine Best Lawyers, Dr. Jendrik Adam is one of Germany’s “lawyers of the future 2022” or “ones to watch 2022”.
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German and English
Benedikt Funken is a lawyer and counsel at UFER SCHARF.
He works in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law.
His practice focuses in particular on criminal asset law (like e.g. fraud and embezzlement), capital market offences (market manipulation, insider trading), criminal tax law (cum-Ex, fund structures), and asset recovery measures (asset seizure, confiscation).
Mr. Funken advises and represents both individuals and companies at all stages of criminal and administrative offence proceedings as well as in court. In addition, he also provides companies with preventive support and assistance in the context of internal investigations for the purpose of clarifying suspicions under criminal law.
Mr. Funken advices and defenses in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law, especially in:
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German and English
Dr. Richard Rathgeber is lawyer and counsel at UFER SCHARF.
He acts as defense counsel in all areas of criminal law as well as in particular in white collar criminal law, criminal tax law and medical criminal law.
He advises and defends national and international companies, their executives and employees in all aspects and proceedings of white-collar criminal law and criminal tax law as well as in administrative fine proceedings. One of his main areas of practice is the defense of companies and employees in the event of operational accidents and damages.
Due to his doctoral thesis in medical law and his previous work as a public prosecutor in a special department for medical criminal law, Dr. Richard Rathgeber also has special expertise in the area of criminal liability for deficiencies in patient care, patient information and the organization of medical facilities.
German and English
Counsel
Certified specialist in tax law
089 5587199-0
089 5587199-77 (Fax)
feldle@uferscharf.de
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Dr. Jochen Feldle is a lawyer and Counsel at UFER SCHARF.
Before joining UFER SCHARF, Dr. Feldle was with a renowned tax and criminal tax law firm, where he exclusively handled tax and criminal tax law cases. Due to this previous engagement, he has mastered the finesse of criminal tax law and is also well versed in the field of tax litigation. His focus is therefore on criminal tax law issues and, in addition to the “classic” defence, also includes preventive measures such as the submission of tax correction statements and voluntary declarations.
As a criminal defence lawyer, he advises companies and individuals. He also advises on other white-collar crime matters and assists companies, for example, in the context of internal investigations.
Dr Feldle publishes regularly in the legal press and is Head of Circle (Munich) of the Young Tax & Legal Excellence network. He advises in German and English and speaks French.
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Laura Specht is a lawyer and associate at UFER SCHARF.
She is active in all areas of general criminal law and, in particular, in commercial and tax criminal law.
Ms Specht advises both individuals and companies in all stages of criminal and administrative proceedings. She is also active in the field of internal investigations and preventive criminal law advice to companies for the purpose of clarifying criminal suspicions.
German, English and French
Sebastian Kirmayr is a lawyer and associate at UFER SCHARF.
He works in all areas of general criminal law and, in particular, in commercial and tax criminal law.
In addition to the classic offences against property, capital market and tax criminal law in particular form a specialist focus.
Mr Kirmayr advises both individuals and companies in all phases of criminal and administrative proceedings. In addition, Mr Kirmayr is active in the field of preventive criminal law advice for companies.
Defence in all areas of criminal law as well as commercial and tax criminal law. In particular:
German and English
Dr. Ruben Doneleit is a lawyer and Associate at UFER SCHARF.
He works in all areas of general criminal law and, in particular, in commercial and tax criminal law.
As a criminal defence lawyer, he advises both individuals and companies in all stages of criminal and administrative proceedings. He is also active in the field of internal investigations and preventive criminal law advice to companies for the purpose of clarifying criminal suspicions.
German and English
Steffen Ufer is lawyer and of counsel at UFER SCHARF.
Steffen Ufer is one of Germany’s best-known criminal defense lawyers. He works as a lawyer in all areas of criminal law, from pre-trial counselling to the execution of sentences. In particular, he handles cases with a special psychological or psychiatric background. Steffen Ufer is also mandated in many criminal tax proceedings.
Steffen Ufer has been a specialist lawyer in the area of criminal law for many years. As a lecturer at the German Lawyer‘s Academy, he trained specialist lawyers in criminal law for many years.
As a criminal defense lawyer, Steffen Ufer works throughout Germany as well as in Europe and the USA.
Steffen Ufer studied law at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich from 1959 to 1963. He completed his practical training with an 8-month scholarship as an assistant to the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. During his practical training he worked in the at that time still small law firm of Rolf Bossi. From 1970, Steffen Ufer was a partner for 35 years in what became one of Germany’s most successful criminal law offices, “Bossi-Ufer-Widmaier”, later “Bossi-Ufer-Ziegert”.
Steffen Ufer has been a specialist in the area of criminal law for many years. As a lecturer at the German Lawyers’ Academy, he spent many years training other certified specialists in criminal law.
Steffen Ufer is an honorary citizen of the City of Tacoma Park in Maryland and therefore still has strong personal and professional links with the USA.
During his career spanning over more than 50 years, Steffen Ufer has acted as defense counsel in thousands of both high profile and less well-known criminal defence proceedings.
Amongst other cases he defended the Oetker kidnapper Dieter Zlof, Jürgen Bartsch and many prominent individuals (Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Fassbinder, Ottfried Fischer, Professor Dr Werner Mang etc.).
His involvement on behalf of a number of convicts condemned to death in the USA, e.g. the LaGrand brothers and the Apelt brothers, should receive particular emphasis.
Amongst many white collar cases, the defence of the Wienerwald founder Friedrich Jahn and of Karl-Heinz Wildmoser senior stand out most. Steffen Ufer also defended the principle defendant in the European long-distance heating cartel and the key figures in the so-called initial Siemens corruption proceedings surrounding the Munich sewage plant.
German and English
Basic knowledge of Italian, Spanish and French
Joachim Eckert is a lawyer and of counsel at UFER SCHARF in Munich.
Mr. Eckert specialises in proceedings related to corruption, tax evasion, general white-collar crime, organised crime, money laundering, cybercrime, computer crime and asset recovery. He acquired his expertise in the course of his many years of work as a senior public prosecutor in cases involving money laundering, organised crime and international relations. For more than 10 years, Mr. Eckert was the presiding judge of a major commercial criminal law court at the Munich I District Court and he was responsible for cases involving corruption, tax fraud and economic crime, which explains his outstanding and wide-ranging knowledge in these fields.
Mr. Eckert has also worked internationally for the EU Commission, including in Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey. In Bulgaria, he advised the government on behalf of the European Union and helped in establishing a public prosecutor’s office specialising in corruption cases.
He chaired the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee from mid-2012 to May 2017.
Defense in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law, in particular
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Professor Dr. Frank Saliger is Of Counsel at UFER SCHARF.
He holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Economic Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and is co-publisher of, among others, the “Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft” (ZStW), the “Zeitschrift für Medizinstrafrecht” (medstra) and the Nomos Commentary on the German Criminal Code.
Professor Dr. Saliger is one of the leading experts in economic and medical criminal law in Germany. He has outstanding knowledge, particularly in the areas of embezzlement, fraud and corruption, and has been the specialist in party criminal law since his post-doctoral thesis “Party Law and Criminal Law” (2005). With his expertise and extensive network, Professor Dr. Saliger complements UFER SCHARF’s client work as a consultant and expert.
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