Volker Rosengarten
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner
Compliance & Investigations
Corporate and Financial Litigation
Cyber Risks
Dawn Raids
Volker Rosengarten is a partner based in Noerr’s Hamburg office. Volker’s practice focuses on white-collar crime matters with a particular emphasis on cross-border matters. He defends clients in criminal and administrative proceedings, conducts internal investigations and provides compliance advice. Moreover, Volker is an experienced litigator and well-versed in regulatory matters. Before joining Noerr, Volker for five years worked for a Magic Circle law firm in Hamburg and for nine years for a U.S. litigation-only firm in their Hamburg and Zurich offices, since 2018 as a partner for white collar and capital markets matters. Volker lectures criminal science at Hochschule Fresenius (University of Applied Sciences Fresenius).
Projects
- Represent an international telecommunications services provider in connection with a criminal proceeding against a former business partner for fraud and forgery of documents (2022).
- Defend the managing director of a technology company in a criminal investigation into allegations of tax evasion, copyright infringement and fraud (2022).
- Advise an international commodity trading group in connection with a ransomware incident (2022).
- Defend the managing director of a company operating Corona test centers in a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud (2021/2022).
- Conduct an internal investigation for a European financial institution into a cross-border money laundering allegations (2021/2022).
- Represent an executive of a financial institution in regulatory proceedings before the German financial markets supervisory authority (2021/2022).
- Represent an international technical equipment manufacturer in criminal proceedings against former employees based on allegations of misappropriating business secrets at on a large scale (2021/2022).
- Dawn-raid support for a globally operating software provider in Germany (2021).
- Investigateg certain compliance-relevant incidents at a Swiss bank on behalf of the Swiss financial market supervisory authority (2020).
- Conducted an internal investigation for a securitization company to help clarify a potential investment fraud (2020).
- Represented a financial institution in connection with investigations into allegations of tax evasion and other misconduct (so called Cum-Ex complex) (2019/2020).
- Defended a US pharmaceutical company in criminal proceedings into allegations of violations of EU sanctions (2019).
- Defended two Russian citizens located in Germany that are victims of political persecution against extradition requests issued by Russian authorities (2018/2019).
- Represented a media group in a cross-border investigation into allegations of insider trading (2017/2018).
- Represented various German and Swiss banks in connection with investigations triggered by the so called Panama Papers (2016/2017).
- Defended FIFA, the world football governing body, in the multi-jurisdictional criminal and other investigations into potential misconduct of (former) executives and employees (so called FIFA-Gate) and advised on compliance aspects (2015-2018).
Insights
Career
- Studied law at the University of Göttingen
- Academic assistant and doctoral studies at the Institute of Information, Telecommunications and Media Law at the University of Münster
- Lawyer at a Magic Circle firm in Hamburg
- Partner in a leading US law firm in Hamburg and Zurich
- At Noerr since 2021
- Admitted to the Hamburg Chamber of Lawyers
Memberships
- Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV)
Lectures
- Live Webinar: Nichtumsetzung der Whistleblowing-Richtlinie – Folgen für Unternehmen? (25.01.2022)
Publications
- Liability Of Wi-Fi Operators For Abusive Download Of Copyrighted Works By Third Parties, E-Commerce Law & Policy, co-authored with N. Herrmann and U. Stimmel (2010)
- Die besondere Missbrauchsaufsicht im Telekommunikationsgesetz 2004, doctoral thesis (2009)
- Zur verfassungsrechtlichen Zulässigkeit des Abgleichs gemäß § 6 Abs. 5 StromNEV-E", Recht der Energiewirtschaft (RdE), co-authored with B. Holznagel and M. S. Göge (2005)
- Der Zugang zu Premium-Inhalten, insbesondere für Multimedia-Anbieter, Arbeitsbericht 27, Kompetenzzentrum Internetökonomie und Hybridität, co-authored with B. Holznagel (2005)
- Die Zulässigkeit von Optionstarifen der T-Com nach dem neuen TKG, Kommunikation und Recht (K&R), co-authored with B. Holznagel and A. Hombergs (2004)