Dr. Dirk Scherp will be joining Gleiss Lutz’s renowned compliance group as of counsel on 1 October 2014. He will be working out of the Frankfurt office.
Dirk Scherp advises companies on criminal law, especially in compliance matters and on the prevention of economic crime. He has carried out numerous internal investigations in many industries, including the financial services industry, also advising these companies on the set-up of global compliance management systems.
Besides his work as a lawyer, he also has many years of experience in other relevant positions, including ten years as a prosecutor with the department of public prosecution at Frankfurt am Main District and Higher Regional Courts, working, among others, in the area of corruption. He was further chief compliance officer and group money laundering officer at Dresdner Bank AG and lectured in criminal and criminal procedure law and other subjects at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences (Verwaltungsfachhochschule Wiesbaden).
“We are excited about this valuable addition to the team,” commented Dr. Christian Steinle, co-head of Gleiss Lutz’s compliance group. “Dirk Scherp’s expertise in criminal law adds an ever-more important component to our compliance practice. With his broad experience as a public prosecutor as well as his in-house expertise, he will be a valuable asset to our clients, especially in difficult negotiations with public prosecutors in compliance cases.”
Dr. Scherp on his appointment: “What particularly appealed to me was the opportunity to be a part of such a renowned team, advising companies on compliance not only nationally, but internationally too.”
As a full service firm, Gleiss Lutz has a cross-practice team assisting clients in all areas of compliance - a team that includes experts from the areas of competition and antitrust, corporate and capital markets, banking and insurance regulatory, litigation, employment, tax and criminal tax law and data protection. The new addition to the team in the person of experienced criminal lawyer Dirk Scherp represents a further step along the path of targeted expansion for our compliance practice.
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