Dr Laura Borgel
Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for criminal law
Salary Partner
Profile
Dr Laura Borgel advises and represents both individual clients and corporates across the entire spectrum of commercial criminal law, the law regarding tax offences and regulatory offences. As a Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law, she possesses comprehensive expertise in the area of tax, capital markets and accounting criminal law. In addition, Dr Borgel advises in the area of disgorgement under criminal and regulatory offences law, asset recovery and audit law. Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers has repeatedly noted Dr Borgel to be one of Germany’s top lawyers in the field of commercial criminal law.
Curriculum vitae
- Studies in business administration (B.Sc.) at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany
- Legal studies at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and in Oxford with a focus on commercial criminal law
- Doctoral thesis at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University (“Die Unvermeidbarkeit von Verbotsirrtümern bei Vorliegen eines präventiven Rechtsgutachtens”)
- Lawyer at Feigen Graf since 2018
- Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law since 2021
- Salary Partner since 2022
References
Areas of Practice
Criminal employment law
Administrative offence proceedings
Antitrust criminal law
Banking criminal law
Appeal proceedings
Insolvency criminal law
Tax criminal law
Capital markets criminal law
Environmental criminal law
selected publications
Part 3 – Asset recovery
Borgel/Reichling
Handbuch Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, 195 ff., 2024
How to store bratwursts, you (don’t) have to know – On the importance of legal opinions for the avoidability of prohibition errors with a special view to criminal food law
Borgel/Pradel
LMuR, 219 ff., 2023
The inevitability of a prohibition error in the presence of a preventive legal opinion
Borgel
Herausgeberschaft, 2022
Comment on BGH, 10.3.2021 – 1 StR 272/20 – Recovery in the case of a de facto (co-)managing director
Borgel
wistra, 29 ff., 2022
Comment on BGH, 27.4.2022 – 5 StR 278/21 – Skimming portion of association fines
Borgel/Reichling
wistra, 390 f., 2022
M&A Transactions and the Law on Criminal and Administrative Offences (Part II): Risks for the buy side
Borgel/Reichling/Corsten
BB, 712 ff., 2022
Comment on BGH, 18.11.2020 – 2 StR 246/20 – Inevitability of the prohibition error
Borgel
wistra, 357, 2021
Comment on Brandenburg Court, 04.11.2020 – 1 Ws 135/20 – Reasoning requirements for the occupation objection
Borgel/Reichling
StV, 815 ff., 2021
M&A transactions and the law on criminal and administrative offences (Part I): Risks for the seller side
Borgel/Reichling/Corsten
BB, 1545 ff., 2021
„Lex Cum/Ex II.“ ‒ Renewed amendment of the right of limitation and recovery
Lange/Borgel/Reichling
PStR, 31 ff., 2021
selected presentations
Presentation “Whistleblowing – Implementation of the Whistleblower Directive in practice”
VKU-Zertifizierungslehrgang: Compliance Officer im kommunalen Unternehmen, 19.01.2023
Presentation at the panel “Preparation of witnesses in arbitration proceedings”
DIS 40, 07.12.2022
Defence in pre-trial proceedings against contribution reduction and wage tax evasion
Junges Wirtschaftsstrafrecht 3.0, 08.10.2021