Those involved with internal investigations will continue to contend with a set of increasingly defined and evolving set of constraints in 2026: rules on data access and cross border transfers, persistent jurisdictional...more
Germany started 2025 with rising enforcement risk as authorities intensified their efforts to combat financial crime. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a landmark penalty of EUR25 million for...more
1/29/2026
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Cryptocurrency ,
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Financial Crimes ,
Financial Institutions ,
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White Collar Crimes
Artificial intelligence is already embedded in how many organizations operate and investigate. It speeds up document review, detects anomalies, drafts notes and interview questionnaires, and surfaces patterns. It now also...more
Whistleblowing regimes continue to develop across major markets, with new offenses, expanded protections, and regulator expectations converging on faster triage, anti‑retaliation, and high‑quality investigations and...more
On October 16, 2025, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the Regulation establishing the European Defense Industry Program (EDIP or the Program) and a framework of measures to ensure the...more
12/12/2025
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Supply Chain
During an investigation, it is not uncommon to discover that an individual has forwarded business emails to their private email address. This ruling from the Higher Regional Court Munich shows the potential implications of...more
11/4/2024
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Confidential Information ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Email ,
Email Policies ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Germany ,
Internal Investigations ,
Personal Information ,
Sensitive Business Information ,
Termination ,
White Collar Crimes
German authorities have intensified and accelerated their enforcement activities in 2023, following a slowdown of both investigations and court proceedings during the pandemic.
This had led to a surge of dawn-raids in...more
1/11/2024
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Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Criminal Liability ,
Cross-Border ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
Germany ,
Investigations ,
Money Laundering ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
White Collar Crimes
Paying a cyber ransom will, allegedly, secure your data and give you back control of your systems. But there are legal, operational and ethical risks to consider....more
Companies may recover from their employees the cost of internal investigations conducted by external law firms, according to a decision by the German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht). However, the court has set out...more
Companies in Germany should be aware of Germany’s looming implementation of the EU Whistleblowing Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1937). The now available first working draft bill for a Whistleblower Protection Act...more