Dr Julia Lange, LL.M.

Practice groups

Sector groups

Expertise

Criminal law (business crimes)
Competition law
Corporate compliance

Julia defends and advises individuals and companies in all areas of corporate criminal law as well as in competition proceedings. She mainly specializes in the field of compliance with criminal and competition law as well as in internal investigations. Additionally, Julia is well grounded in U.S. criminal law and procedure. She advises in German and English.

Recent work

Corruption audits (Internal Investigations) of subsidiaries of a DAX company
Establishment of compliance systems at companies of different sizes in both, the private and the public sector
Advising several companies in the real estate sector on AML (anti-money laundering) measures (risk analysis, guidelines, training, etc.)
Several months Secondment in the compliance department of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG

Curriculum vitae

Studied law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2004 to 2009
Foreign Law an Language Program for Anglo-American law (FFA) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2004 to 2006
Graduate Studies (Master of Laws, LL.M.) at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2009 to 2010
PhD on public finance law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2010 to 2014
Research assistant at the Institute for Tax Law (Prof. Dr Joachim Englisch) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2010 to 2011
Research assistant at a large corporate law firm in Berlin, 2012
Legal clerkship with the Higher Regional Court (Kammergericht) Berlin, 2012 to 2014
Lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) at Kapellmann since 2014
Attended the advanced training programme Healthcare Compliance Officer (HCO) at Steinbeis University Berlin, 2016
Certification as Anti Money Laundering Officer by TÜVRheinland, 2020

Further qualifications and membership

Lecturer on Compliance and Criminal Law at the Hochschule Biberach (University of Applied Sciences)
Member of Anwaltverein Mönchengladbach
Member of the working group on criminal law within the German Lawyers’ Association (ARGE Strafrecht beim Deutschen Anwaltverein)
Member of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV)
Member of the Criminal Justice Section (CJS) of American Bar Association (ABA)
Member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)

Publications

Books and book contributions

Beck´scher Vergaberechtskommentar

Die Vorteilsabschöpfungsabgabe im Abgabesystem des Grundgesetzes

Annotations on court decisions

Lange, Abrechnungsbetrug eines Pflegedienstes durch den Einsatz nicht hinreichend qualifizierter Mitarbeiter, Anm. zu BGH, Beschl. v. 16.6.2014 – 4 StR 21/14, NZWiSt 2015, S. 278.

Miscellaneous

Lange/Wagner, Die neue Transparenz – Was der Politikbetrieb in Berlin vom europäischen Transparenzregister lernen kann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 15. Juli 2020, S. 16