Dirk Uwer

Dirk Uwer specialises in public commercial law, compliance and white-collar criminal law. He has been recognised many times as an outstanding lawyer for public law and regulated industries in international and national legal rankings. Dirk advises investors, companies and corporations from a wide range of sectors on public law and regulatory issues in corporate transactions and restructurings. As an experienced procedural and litigation lawyer, he represents his clients in regulatory proceedings and litigation through all specialised courts. His broad practice includes fundamental legal matters and proceedings in European, constitutional and administrative law as well as environmental law, energy law, healthcare/life sciences, foreign trade and investment control law, data protection and privacy law, compliance, internal investigations and corporate social responsibility. In these business sectors he defends companies and board members in public investigations and criminal proceedings.

As a member of Legislative Assembly (Satzungsversammlung) of the German Federal Bar as well as of the Professional Law Committee and the European Committee of the German Bar Association, he also deals intensively with the law governing the legal profession and the professional laws of other liberal professions. He advises clients from a wide range of business sectors on the law of money laundering prevention.