Representation of corporations in corporate criminal law proceedings

Politicians regularly demand tougher and faster sanctions against companies. At the same time, the increasing Europeanization and internationalization of the law is leading to an ever-denser jungle of regulations regarding companies. The result is a legal downward spiral: The pitfalls are increasing, and the consequences of a violation of the law are becoming more and more drastic.

Plan A – Criminal law firm represents companies and defends them against government investigation, regardless of whether it is a DAX company, medium-sized business, sports club, sports association, shipping company, law firm, medical practice, clinic or pharmacy. In order to prevent risks, we also work with you to develop and implement sensible and custom-fit compliance concepts in advance. We already think about the defence of tomorrow.

References

• Ingo Bott: Representation of a DAX company as defense counsel in administrative fine proceedings due to allegations of illegal employee leasing and employment of bogus self-employed workers.
• Ingo Bott: Representation of an internationally oriented company from the private equity sector in a criminal competition fine proceeding.
• Ingo Bott: Representation and defense of an internationally oriented company against antitrust charges.
• Maximilian Kohlhof: The purpose of associational punishment. A Penal Theoretical Investigation (Dissertation, Duncker & Humblot, 2018)

Publications

• Ingo Bott: La economía en el punto de mira – Visión general de las posibles sanciones a empresas en Alemania, 2018, Gedächtnisschrift für Miguel Langón Cuñarro (page to be announced)
• Ingo Bott: The Competition Register in Practice: What Influence Do Group Structures Have on Impending Registrations? StraFo 12/2017, S. 490 ff
• Ingo Bott: Boundaries in the battle for bright minds – Criminal law risks associated with the poaching of employees (CCZ 2017, S. 125-130)
• Ingo Bott: Not purchased and yet betrayed – Offer documents in a pitch may also be protected by criminal law, (Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel 16/2016, S. 6)
• Ingo Bott: Good in principle – Criminal law implications of the new EU-wide regulation of trade secrets, (Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel 09/2016 S. 6)
• Ingo Bott: Search of law firms – not much protection from Strasbourg – at the same time comment on the judgment of the EGMR v. 3.09.2015, Sérvulo & Associades et. Al v. Portugal (27013/10), Operating consultant 2015, S. 3084-3087.
• Ingo Bott: “Borderless” Betrayal of Secrets: The Foreign Reference in Section § 17 UWG, wistra 2015, S. 342-345
• Ingo Bott: Exclusion of Criminal Liability for Corruption by Institutionalized Prior Approvals?, NStZ 2015, S. 121-127.
• Ingo Bott: Corruption prevention in practice: What do companies do to prevent transnational corruption? Contribution to the documentation of a symposium of the CorA Network for Corporate Responsibility on 5.11.2013 in Berlin. “Human Rights Due Diligence for Businesses: Content Design and Effective Implementation from a Civil Society Perspective,” S. 10-13.
• Ingo Bott: Stumbling blocks in the release from responsibility by legal advice – Criminal law risks for the responsible persons of a company in case of false compliance information, ZRFC 2012, S. 180-185

Presentations

• Ingo Bott: „Challenges for fiscal sanctions law in EU member states“, representation of Europarats, Bukarest, Rumänien, 24.04.2017
• Ingo Bott: Voluntary self-disclosure of tax evasion, representation of Europarats, Bukarest, Rumänien, 17.02.2017
• Ingo Bott: Insolvency law in criminal law, representation of Europarats, Bukarest, Rumänien, 09.12.2016
• Ingo Bott: Sanctions against enterprises, representation of Europarats, Bukarest, Rumänien, 22.10.2015
• Ingo Bott: The efforts of the legislator to reform the (international) criminal law on corruption, Presentation at State Bureau of Investigation, Baden-Württemberg; Anti-Corruption Task Force, Stuttgart 16.11.2016; focus: Corruption in healthcare sector.
• Ingo Bott: Panel discussion on the draft bill for the reform of StPO, Discussion at task force „Sozialdemokratischer Juristinnen und Juristen”, Karlsruhe, 05.11.2016
• Ingo Bott: Challenges and risks associated with the phenomenon of product piracy, Working Group Spare Parts at Darmstadt University of Technology; Invitation from Dr. Dr. h.c. Pfohl und John Deere; Working group meeting at John Deere with representatives from the private sector, Bruchsal, 20.10.2015
• Ingo Bott: Defense in Competition and Copyright Crimes, Third Joint Event of Deutscher Strafverteidiger e.V. and Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V.: Specific Constellations in Commercial Criminal Law – Cartels, Patents and corruption, Frankfurt am Main, 27.03.2015
• Ingo Bott: De la práctica para la práctica: La responsabilidad penal de los administradores de hecho, Annual Congress of the German-Spanish Lawyers Association, Düsseldorf, 19.06.2014
• Ingo Bott: Corruption prevention in practice: What do companies do to prevent transnational corruption? Event “Human rights due diligence for companies: Content and effective implementation from a civil society perspective” by CorA (Network for Corporate Responsibility) and “Brot für die Welt”, Berlin, 05.11.2013.
• Ingo Bott: La Globalización y sus consecuencias en Materia Ambiental, Congreso Internacional de Las Nuevas Tendencias Delictivas en el siglo XXI, Porlamar, Isla Margarita, Venezuela, 02.06.2007