PRACTICE

A preeminent crisis management practice.

Prof. Winkler is one of the leading regulatory and crisis management lawyers in Europe. As an attorney he has worked on some of the most prominent and challenging legal crises of the last decade in Germany and the EU, usually including high-stakes political and/or reputational issues. He has led one of the key compliance units of a major European bank through an U.S. monitorship, has represented companies (as part of US and UK law firms) in milestone litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union, advised companies on #MeToo cases and guided exporters through the dramatic Iran-, later Crimea- and now Russia-related sanctions wave.

A widely recognized financial sanctions and export control expert who was the worldwide Head of Global Standards Sanctions of Germany's second largest bank and also worked for the German State Department (Auswärtiges Amt), Prof. Winkler is one of the few sanctions lawyers with experience in both EU and US sanctions, in both banking and industry sectors, and on all sides of the sanctions landscape: government, in-house, external advisory and academic research. 

His work for clients has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Forbes, Spiegel, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Focus, Tagesspiegel, ZDF TV, ARD and others (cf., e. g., here).

Prof. Winkler has been appointed as a member of the 'FOCUS EXPERT CIRCLE', teaches business law with an emphasis on criminal law at IU International University and has authored numerous articles in the field of EU law, regulatory law, constitutional law, sanctions and export controls. He has been teaching law to business school students for almost twenty years.

Prof. Winkler holds law degrees from Goethe University (Germany) and Harvard University (USA). He is a member of various museum and art-related societies. In his spare time Prof. Winkler is an avid fan of the Miami Dolphins football team.