Dr. Anja Schmorl

Attorney | Salary Partner

Expertise

  • Advising and defending individuals and companies in white-collar crime and criminal tax matters

  • Defence in proceedings brought by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)

  • Advising management boards and supervisory boards on decisions involving criminal liability risks and in crisis situations involving criminal proceedings

  • Advising and defending physicians and pharmacists, including in matters relating to the German Medicinal Products Act (AMG) and the German Narcotics Act (BtMG)

  • Searches and seizures, particularly involving IT systems and data, and digital forensics

  • Advising on criminal law aspects of voluntary disclosures under section 371 of the German Fiscal Code (AO)

  • Advising on criminal law aspects of internal investigations

  • General criminal law

  • Attorney Dr. Anja Schmorl advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law, especially commercial criminal law and criminal tax law. She has experience in advising and defending national and international companies and their corporate bodies and employees in all areas of commercial criminal law and criminal tax law as well as fine proceedings. In addition, she provides advice in connection with the criminal law aspects of internal investigations and legal disputes under civil law.

    After studying at Leipzig University, Dr. Anja Schmorl obtained her PhD with a doctoral thesis on the topic of criminal liability of aiding and abetting. The postgraduate legal clerkship she completed to prepare for the Second State Law Examination included a training station at the Criminal Procedure Law Division of the German Federal Ministry of Justice. Since 2020, she has worked as an attorney in the area of criminal law.

    Dr. Anja Schmorl advises clients in German and English.

  • • White-Collar Crime

    • European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)

    • Criminal Tax Law

    • Compliance and Internal Investigations

    • Money Laundering: Prevention and Defence

    • Criminal Law in the Banking Sector

    Criminal Law in the Capital Markets Sector

    • Criminal Law for Healthcare Professionals and the Medical Sector

    • Corruption: Prevention and Defence

    • Advice and Representation before Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry

  • • Best Lawyers Ranking of Handelsblatts 2025: “Ones to Watch” in “White-Collar Criminal Law“

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

  • • Hamburg Commercial Bank (formerly HSH Nordbank)

    • Daimler AG in the Diesel proceedings

    • Companies concerning the suspicion of withholding and embezzling remuneration in connection with “false self-employment”

  • • “Seizure and Examination of Mobile Phones, Laptops and Other Devices”, co-authored with Prof. Dr. Christoph Knauer, Anwaltsblatt 09/2024 [2024].

    • “Criminal Law Assessment of Climate Protests in Cultural Institutions and Responses by Their Operators”, co-authored with Prof. Dr. Christoph Knauer, in: Handbuch Kulturmanagement Recht, Politik & Praxis (84/2023), DUZ Medienhaus [2023].

    • “The Limits of Criminal Liability for Aiding and Abetting in the Case Law of the German Federal Court of Justice”, Schriften zum Strafrecht (SR), vol. 382, Duncker & Humblot [2022].

  • • Munich Bar Association (Münchener Anwaltverein e.V.)

    • FORUM Young Lawyers Section of the German Bar Association (DAV)

    • Criminal Law Section of the German Bar Association (DAV)

    • Women Lawyers in White-Collar Crime and Criminal Tax Law (JuWiSt)

    • Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)

  • German, English

Contact

+49 (0) 89 5529898-0
schmorl@knauer-partner.de

Brienner Str. 7
80333 Munich

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