Kapellmann: Lawyers

Dr Oliver Kraft
Specialist lawyer for criminal law
Contact data
Phone: +49 2161 811-611
Fax: +49 2161 811-777
[email protected]
Mönchengladbach
Expertise
Criminal law (business crimes)
Law relating to fiscal offences
Corporate compliance
Dr Kraft defends private individuals in commercial and fiscal criminal law procedures. He
also represents (national and international) companies, which are involved in criminal
matters, acting as "defence counsel for the company" as well as representative of the
company that has suffered damage. Outside such crisis situations Dr Kraft also provides
"preventative" advice and advises on issues of criminal law compliance (creation of
compliance systems, implementation of corruption audits, internal investigations, in-house
training, review of existing compliance programmes).
What others say
Recommended for compliance advice – Legal 500 Germany 2017
Recent work
Defending a hotel investor against a suspicion of subsidy fraud
Defending a sales representative against a suspicion of bribery of Russian officials
Defending a former branch manager of a German bank against a suspicion of corruption
in business transactions
Corruption audits of subsidiaries of a DAX company; supporting internal investigations in
the clarification of facts
Creation of a compliance system for a public service company
Implementation of criminal law compliance measures for a major German airport
Berlin
Brüssel
Düsseldorf
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Mönchengladbach
München
Berlin
Brüssel
Düsseldorf
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Mönchengladbach
München
Further qualifications and memberships
Lecturer on Corporate Compliance and criminal law (business crimes) at the
Westfälischen Hochschule in Recklinghausen
Lecturer on commercial criminal law at the research centre for risk management at the
Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg
Lecturer at the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie
Speaker at numerous seminars and training courses on commercial criminal law
Member of the working group on criminal law within the German Lawyers’ Association
(ARGE Strafrecht beim Deutschen Anwaltverein)
Member of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV); Director of the working
group on employment criminal law
Member of the network Compliance e.V.
Curriculum vitae
Studied law at the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg and at the University of
Regensburg, 1992 to 1996
Research assistant to the chair for criminal law and criminology at the University of
Regensburg (Prof. Dr Klaus Rolinski), 1997 to 1999
PhD on criminal procedural law, 1997 to 2001
Visiting Scholar at Tulane Law School, New Orleans, 1998
Legal clerkship with the Higher Regional Court Nürnberg, 1998 to 2000
Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2001, from 2002 to 2008, lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) with
Wessing II Verjans Rechtsanwälte/VBB Rechtsanwälte exclusively in the field of
commercial criminal law
Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) at Kapellmann since 2008
Berlin
Brüssel
Düsseldorf
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Mönchengladbach
München