Experience

• • Allergan in its sale of Brazikumab to AstraZeneca and Zenpep to Nestle.
  • An American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company with corporate defense in a major data breach case.
  • Solenis in the combination with BASF's paper and water chemicals business.
  • An international U.S. conglomerate in the internal investigations relating to a German business branch.
  • A large German bank in an assessment of its compliance management system relating to the distribution of financial products.
  • A large German bank in an investigation relating to breach of trust allegations.
  • One of the world’s largest commodity trading houses in a representation relating to public investigations into bribery and breach of trust allegations.
  • A leading European retail group in an assessment of its compliance management system in Germany, Russia, Turkey, Italy and the Benelux countries.
  • A German automotive supply group in an assessment of its compliance management system.
  • A Dax 30-group company relating to issues of corporate governance and internal audit.
  • Ferrostaal, a global provider of industrial services in plant construction and engineering, in an extensive internal compliance investigation relating to allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing in several jurisdictions.
  • Siemens in an internal investigation to determine whether anti-corruption regulations had been violated and in an independent and comprehensive assessment of the compliance and control systems at Siemens.
  • Deutsche Telekom in United States Department of Justice and SEC investigations relating to payments made by its Hungarian subsidiary, Magyar Telekom.
  • An internal investigation for the audit committee of a worldwide communications company concerning payments made to certain commercial counterparties.
  • Multinational companies and private fund sponsors in the creation of anti-corruption compliance programs.
  • A leading manufacturer of comprehensive drive technology based in Japan, in its €165 million acquisition of a motors and actuators business and other M&A transactions in Germany.
  • A U.S. media conglomerate in antitrust issues on the acquisition of a media enterprise.
  • A major Japanese automotive corporation as claimant in consolidated ICC London arbitration proceedings concerning a multibillion euro cross-shareholding and arising out of a commercial alliance.
  • An international pharmaceutical corporation in a dispute relating to a joint venture for the research and development of certain vaccines.