Attorney Chad Heimrich advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law, especially commercial criminal law and criminal tax law. Focal points of his work include the defence of companies in fine proceedings and criminal law support of internal investigations.

In addition, Chad Heimrich defends clients in extradition proceedings, against Interpol, and in proceedings of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

After studying at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and Queen Mary University London, he completed his postgraduate legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt on the Main, including training stations with a criminal judge and a criminal defence lawyer in Kassel. Subsequently, Chad Heimrich covered the areas of criminal law and rules of professional practice for attorneys, among others, in his capacity of Representative for European Affairs of the “Deutsche Anwaltverein” bar association (Brussels Office).

Chad Heimrich advises clients in German, English, and French.

• Commercial criminal law

• European Public Prosecutor’s Office

• Compliance/internal investigation

• Extradition, legal assistance, and Interpol

• IT criminal law /cybercrime

• Criminal tax law

• Capital market criminal law

• Best Lawyers Ranking des Handelsblatts 2025 and 2026: “Ones to Watch” in “White-Collar Criminal Law“ and “Criminal Tax Law”

• Best Lawyers Ranking of Handelsblatts 2024: “Ones to Watch” in “Criminal Tax Law”

• WirtschaftsWoche magazine 2025 and 2026: „Top Lawyer Compliance”

• Continental AG in the "Diesel cases"

• Successful defence in extradition proceedings

• “The E-Evidence Regulation: Companies Must Prepare!”, co-authored with Dr. Oliver Ofosu-Ayeh, in WiJ 02/2026 [2026]

• “International Cooperation in Criminal Matters,” co-authored with S. Schomburg, in: Kruse/Tute, Corporate Criminal Liability in Germany, 1st edition 2026 [2026]

• “Mutual Recognition of Extradition Decisions – A Critical Analysis of the ECJ’s Judgment in Kamekris: A Missed Opportunity?”, co-authored with S. Schomburg, in: eucrim 2025, Volume 20(3), 220 ff. [2025]

• “How the EU Plans to Prevent Planned Obsolescence,” co-authored with Dr. Sarah Johnen, in FAZ, April 17, 2024 [2024]

• Co-author; Statement on the Proposal for a Regulation on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters COM (2023) 185 final by the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), March 1, 2024 [2024]

• Commentary on the ECJ judgment of December 22, 2022, Case C-237/21 (S.M.), StraFo 2023, 177 ff. [2023]

• “Ne bis in idem in the context of an Interpol red notice: Effective law enforcement versus fundamental right (case note on C-505/19 WS),” co-authored with M. Scharpf, in: New Journal of European Criminal Law, Volume 13(1), 91 ff. [2022]

• “European Arrest Warrants and the Independence of the Issuing Judicial Authority – How Much Independence Is Required? (Case Note on Joined Cases C-508/18 and C-82/19 PPU OG and PI)” in: New Journal of European Criminal Law, Volume 10(4), 389 ff. [2019]

• “The European Arrest Warrant after Brexit – The UK’s Wishful Thinking of a Future EU-UK Security Partnership?”, in the European and Transnational Criminal Law Blog of Queen Mary University of London, Dec. 10, 2018 [2018]

• “Defending Cross-Border Criminal Cases in the EU”, lecture at the ERA Academy of European Law, October 1, 2026

• “Practical Aspects of Criminal Defense,” workshop at the Hanoi Bar Association, co-presented with Ursus Koerner von Gustorf and attorney Nikolai Venn, March 9, 2023, and March 10, 2023

• “Sharing International Experiences on the Skills of Lawyers in Criminal Proceedings Involving Cases of Violations of Economic Management Regulations,” lecture at the Vietnamese Academy of Justice in Hanoi, together with Ursus Koerner von Gustorf and attorney Nikolai Venn, March 6, 2023, and March 7, 2023

• Frankfurter Anwaltverein (DAV)

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft FORUM Junge Anwaltschaft des DAV

• European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)

• Wirtschaftstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV)

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Strafrecht des DAV

German, English, French