Biography: Business Crime Defence

Kai Hart-Hoenig has many years of experience in advising both German and foreign companies on the prevention and management of risks caused by commercial and tax-related crime. His firm was elected law firm of the year 2002 for business crime by JUVE Yearbook German Commercial Law Firms 2002/2003. According to Who's Who Legal Business Crime 2007, Kai Hart-Hoenig is "the country's stand-out". The services offered by the firm include advice on prevention, corporate governance, compliance, crisis management and advice on damage limitation prior to possible criminal investigation, criminal defence, management of criminal defence for companies, forensic services (comprising forensic accounting), safeguarding and enforcing claims for damages (encompassing asset tracing and recovery), implementation of communication facilities.

Kai Hart-Hoenig graduated with a doctorate degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main Law School in Germany in 1983. He is a member of the Bar in Frankfurt am Main. Before setting up his own law firm, Kai Hart-Hoenig's activities encompassed the management of reorganisation projects for a major US multinational's German subsidiary; assistant in the Criminal Law institute of the Law Faculty of the University of Frankfurt am Main; prosecution counsel in major criminal cases relating to corporate crime. He was a partner in the law firms of Clifford Chance Pünder and Oppenhoff Rädler Linklaters & Alliance.

Kai Hart-Hoenig speaks regularly at international conferences and seminars and also lectured at the German Academy for Lawyers and to other entities. He is a member of the European Criminal Bar Association (vice chairman 2003-2008; currently chairman of the working group on antitrust), as well as member of the German Bar Association, Deutsche Strafverteidiger, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, the German-American Lawyers Association and the International Bar Association. He is also involved in legislative proceedings as an expert witness, inter alia, those which are conducted by the EU and the House of Lords.