Christopher Hilgert
Partner
Attorney-at-Law (Germany)
Specialist lawyer for criminal law
Certified Compliance Officer (TÜV Rheinland)
Certified defense attorney for criminal tax law (DSV)
Certified Defense Attorney for Commercial Criminal Law (DSV)
Christopher Hilgert is a partner in our firm and specializes in the field of (commercial) criminal law and other compliance issues. Mr. Hilgert is a Certified Defense Attorney for Criminal Tax Law (DSV) and Certified Defense Attorney for Commercial Criminal Law (DSV). He and his team focus on providing comprehensive advice to companies and their executive bodies on all compliance issues, including criminal compliance in particular. In the event of an allegation of a compliance violation, Christopher Hilgert and the members of his team advise and defend companies and individuals on all company-related criminal and regulatory offence proceedings. He assists in investigating and analysing the relevant compliance incident.
Together with colleagues from other areas of specialty he assists in introducing compliance systems, as required by law or otherwise commensurate with the exposure to risks of a client’s business.
Mr. Hilgert also advises on all aspects of other commercial and fiscal criminal law, including the defense in criminal corruption proceedings and, in close cooperation with our competition lawyers, also in criminal competition proceedings. The main focus is on individual defense of companies and individuals, both in preliminary proceedings and in the main trial.
In addition, a further legal focus of his professional advice is the consultation and defense of doctors and hospital bodies in medical and medical criminal law. This is done hand in hand with our medical law specialists, for example in the case of accusations of accounting fraud or corruption.
As contract lawyer of the German Federal Armed Forces Association (DBwV e.V.), Attorney Hilgert also defends civil servants and soldiers in all areas of disciplinary and military disciplinary law. The defense is carried out during disciplinary preliminary investigations as well as in negotiations before the service courts, including the defense before the Federal Administrative Court, in close coordination with our administrative law department, in order not to neglect the often far-reaching consequences and effects under civil service law.
