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Sören Schomburg

+49 30 94852070-0 schomburg@knauer-partner.de View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution - White Collar Crime; Criminal Law

Position

Partner

Career

Sören Schomburg advises national and international clients in the areas of commercial criminal law and tax criminal law, international criminal law, and extradition law. He has extensive experience in complex, frequently transnational internal investigations and with respect to search and seizure, especially raids involving data confiscation.

He defends clients throughout Germany, in Europe and before the European Court of Justice (ECJ), and against INTERPOL.

His longstanding experience and networking in these areas enable him to provide clearly targeted advice and defence strategies to clients. He represents national and international companies and their managers.

He has authored numerous specialist publications on commercial criminal law, on INTERPOL manhunts, and on the European Arrest Warrant. In addition, he regularly holds lectures at legal conferences on topics related to international legal assistance in criminal matters and on INTERPOL.

After his studies at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and King′s College in London, he completed his postgraduate legal clerkship at the German Federal Foreign Office and a law firm in Tokyo, among others, and worked at a leading law firm in the area of commercial criminal law. In 2011, he joined the law firm named Ufer Knauer at the time, where he was appointed partner in 2020.

In 2023, he joined forces with Prof. Christoph Knauer and Dr. Björn Boerger to found the law firm Knauer Partner.

Languages

German, English, Danish, French

Memberships

Wirtschaftstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV)

European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)

Defense Extradition Lawyers Forum (DELF