International legislation agency White & Case LLP has expanded its White Collar Apply with the addition of Sophia Habbe as a accomplice in Germany to be based mostly in Frankfurt.
“White collar is of strategic significance to the Agency’s main purchasers globally and we’re increasing our follow to make sure that in all related jurisdictions we’ve the experience to offer purchasers with a premium, value-add service that’s greatest positioned to advise on their most complicated regulatory, compliance and white collar issues,” stated White & Case accomplice Joel M. Cohen, International Head of the Agency’s White Collar Apply. “As a significant financial system, Germany is a key marketplace for us and our purchasers and the addition of Sophia, a number one compliance and investigations accomplice with a confirmed track-record, is a vital step in our world growth.”
Sophia advises German and worldwide firms on complicated regulatory, prison and inner investigations and on course of and disaster administration post-investigation. Her expertise consists of conducting complicated cross-border investigations within the context of ESG and variety and inclusion compliance, and company and capital markets authorized points, together with dealing with authorized disputes earlier than supervisory authorities and courts. Sophia joins White & Case from Noerr, the place she was a accomplice and co-head of the compliance & investigations follow group. At White & Case she is going to lead the German inner investigations group.
“Sophia has intensive civil and regulatory inner investigations, compliance and company governance expertise, together with ESG,” stated White & Case accomplice Markus Langen, Regional Part Head, EMEA Disputes. “As well as, her disaster administration response experience means she has credibility and a powerful community throughout corporates in Germany. Sophia will work carefully in Germany with accomplice Daniel Zapf, and collectively their complementary areas of labor will cowl the complete breadth of white collar, investigations and compliance experience wanted by our purchasers.”
White & Case accomplice and Vice Chair Oliver Brettle stated: “We proceed to spend money on constructing a broad and deep white collar follow globally, not surprisingly as the expansion of regulation and the enforcement of regulation exhibits no indicators of abating. Sophia’s addition follows the arrival in 2024 of white collar companions Ladan Stewart in New York, Neill Blundell in London and Rachel Rodman in Washington, DC, in addition to business litigation companions Kami Haeri and Alexandre Kiabski in Paris and Darryl Bernstein in Johannesburg, all of whom have robust white collar crime and investigations expertise.”
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