GAZEAS NEPOMUCK has been awarded this year’s prestigious JUVE Award as Law Firm of the Year White Collar Crime and Tax Criminal Law 2023 by the renowned German publisher JUVE. The annual JUVE Awards are considered the most important distinction within the law firm industry. The...
Once again this year, the renowned ranking of the U.S. publisher “Best Lawyers,” which is published annually in cooperation with the Handelsblatt newspaper, ranks both of the law firm’s name partners among Germany’s best lawyers. Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas and Dr. Lutz Nepomuck are honored in...
GAZEAS NEPOMUCK is again recommended in the leading industry handbook JUVE-Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023 as a law firm for commercial criminal law (advice/defense of individuals) nationwide. In order to classify the reputation and current development of the firm, the...
Our law firm is honored as one of the leading commercial law firms in Germany in the area of white-collar criminal law and compliance in the annual ranking published by FOCUS magazine. The two name partners of the law firm, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas and Dr. Lutz Nepomuck, are also...
In the current issue of the Cologne University Magazine (“KÖLNER UNIVERSITÄTSMAGAZIN”), the name partner of our law firm is interviewed, among other things, about his well-known clients, inter alia Russia’s best-known opposition politician Alexej Nawalny, and about the...
As part of the expert discussion “Strafprozessuale Fragen im Zusammenhang mit dem Völkerstrafrecht” (Criminal procedural issues in connection with international criminal law), Dr. Andrej Umansky will give a speech at the invitation of the Federal Ministry of Justice on 2 November 2022...
The first edition of the Handbook on Security and State Protection Law, co-edited by Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas, was published by C.H. Beck. The 1,915-page work is edited by Dr. Gazeas and the other renowned editors Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Dietrich, Dr. Matthias Fahrner and Prof. Dr. von...
Once again this year, the renowned ranking of the U.S. publisher “Best Lawyers,” which is published annually in cooperation with the Handelsblatt newspaper, ranks both of the firm’s name partners among Germany’s best lawyers. Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas and Dr. Lutz...
Once again this year, our law firm has been named one of the best commercial law firms in Germany by the renowned business magazine brand eins. It is ranked 3 out of 4 possible stars on the list of “The Best Commercial Law Firms 2022” in the category of commercial criminal...
The former Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and the former Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart R. Baum have filed a criminal complaint against the Russian President Vladimir Putin, his close circle of leaders and a large number of members of the...
Our law firm has been named again – third mail in a row – TOP Law Firm 2022 (TOP Kanzlei 2022) in white-collar criminal law by the renowned German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche. Both name partners of the firm, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas and Dr. Lutz Nepomuck, are additionally listed...
The German FOCUS magazine features in its issue 33/2021 of 14 August 2021 a two-page interview with Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas on the Nawalny case. Dr. Gazeas has been Alexei Nawalny’s German lawyer since the poisoning last year. Further interviews on the case of Nawalny with Dr. Gazeas...
Our law firm has been named again one of the best corporate law firms in Germany by the renowned business magazine brand eins and is listed on the “Best Corporate Law Firms of 2021” list in the category of white collar crime/corporate crime. The special issue of brandeins...
Since March 18, 2021, a stricter money laundering criminal law has been in force with far-reaching consequences for the practice. The implementation of an EU directive has prompted the legislature to restructure fundamentally the criminal offense of money laundering in section 261 of...
Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Digitization and the Law of Homeland Security (IDRIS) at the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The Institute, which is headed by Prof. Dr. Mark A....
Dr. Gazeas was heard as an expert in the Committee on Legal Affairs of the German Bundestag on the initiative to create a law for the use of undercover police informants in criminal proceedings and on legal questions regarding the provocation of crimes by such so-called police...
This year, our law firm has again been named TOP Law Firm 2021 (TOP Kanzlei 2021) in white-collar criminal law by the German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche. Both name partners of the firm, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas and Dr. Lutz Nepomuck, are additionally listed among the most renowned...
Dr. Gazeas was heard as an expert on the planned law reform of the BND Act before the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag on 22nd February 2021. He has expressed considerable criticism of the Federal Government’s draft bill, describing it as “not...
Dr. Gazeas was heard as an expert before the German Parliament’s (Bundestag) Committee on Internal Affairs on 2nd November 2020 on the planned de-restriction of the anti-terror laws. In the public hearing, he urged, among other things, the necessity of a fundamental reform of the law...
GAZEAS NEPOMUCK is again recommended as a law firm for white-collar criminal law (advising/defending individuals) nationwide in the leading German handbook “JUVE-Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2020/2021”. In order to classify the reputation and current development of our law firm in the...
Our law firm is recognised in the annual ranking of the German FOCUS magazine as one of the leading commercial law firms in Germany in the field of economic and financial criminal law (white-collar crime). The FOCUS law firm ranking is based on a survey of around 8,100 lawyers in...
Both partners of the law firm are ranked among the Best Lawyers in Germany 2020 in the renowned ranking of the US publisher “Best Lawyers”, which is published annually in cooperation with the Handelsblatt, Germanys most reputable daily economic newspaper. Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas is...
Our law firm has been named one of the best corporate law firms of 2020 by the renowned business magazine brand eins and is listed on the “Best Corporate Law Firms of 2020” list in the category of white collar crime. The special issue of brandeins...
Our law firm has been awarded the title of TOP Law Firm 2020 in the field of white-collar defense and corporate crime by the business magazine WirtschaftsWoche (issue 18/2020). Dr. Lutz Nepomuck has also been awarded TOP Attorney 2020 in the field of white-collar defense and corporate...
Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas gave an interview to Legal Tribune Online (LTO) together with the former Federal Minister of the Interior and attorney Gerhart R. Baum on the legal classification of anti-corona measures by the government. The interview, conducted by the editor-in-chief of LTO,...
During the legislative process, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas, together with the former Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart R. Baum and Max Schulze, expressed criticism of the planned Epidemic Law in NRW from a constitutional and civil law perspective in a joint statement and submitted...
GAZEAS NEPOMUCK has been recommended in Germanys leading industry handbook JUVE-Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2019/2020 as a law firm for criminal law regarding economic offenses (advice/defence of individuals). With regard to the reputation and the standing of GAZEAS NEPOMUCK in the...
The State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia is currently dealing with a draft bill of the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNNEN on the introduction of an independent commissioner for the police of North Rhine-Westphalia (Polizeibeauftragtengesetz NRW – PolBeaufG NRW,...
As part of the 9th evaluation round on criminal law cooperation within the European Union, Dr. Gazeas will give a lecture on the case law of the German Higher Regional Courts on the European Arrest Warrant at the Ministry on 5th November 2019, following an invitation of the Federal...
At this year’s 12th EU Criminal Law Day 2019 in Bonn, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas will speak on the 18th October 2019 on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with third-party states outside the EU. He will speak about the implications and difficulties following the Petruhhin...
Dr.Nikolaos Gazeas will discuss at the 3rd Symposium on Intelligence Services Law, organised by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) and taking place in Berlin on the 7th and 8th November 2019, together with the Federal Public Prosecutor...
At this year’s German Lawyers’ Day in Leipzig, Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas will speak on 17th May 2019 at the event “On the way to the police state? Reform of the police laws from a lawyer’s perspective” on the reformed police laws, in particular on the right to...
Dr. Nikolaos Gazeas discusses the current legal questions on extradition law in the Julien Assange case in an interview with Christoph Heinemann on Deutschlandfunk.
In a report, the ARD magazine „Kontraste“ dealt with the question of the extent to which Amazon’s Alexa can be used by law enforcement agencies and intelligence services as a wiretapping instrument. Among others, former Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhard Baum and Dr....
Dr. Gazeas was heard as an expert on the planned tightening of laws in the Police Law /Act NRW in both hearings before the Committee of Internal Affairs of the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia on 7th June 2018 and on 13th November 2018. He expressed considerable criticism of the...
Dr. Gazeas represents the FDP politicians who filed a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court against the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure on online searches and source telecommunications surveillance on August 20, 2018. Among them are Christian...
Dr. Nepomuck has obtained the certificate Data Protection Officer (TÜV ®). It documents his expertise in the fields of data protection law, data protection management and organization as well as information security. With the entry into force of the GDPR, data protection law had...
Interviews with Dr. Gazeas on the Puigdemont case Dr. Gazeas has commented on the legal issues of extradition in the Puigdemont case in several interviews (inter alia ARD-Morgenmagazin, Deutschlandfunk, ZDF heute journal, ARD Mittagsmagazin, n-tv Nachrichten, ZEIT online,...
Dr. Gazeas is co-editor of “Grützner/Pötz/Kreß/Gazeas”, Internationaler Rechtshilfeverkehr in Strafsachen. The standard work, comprising more than 10,000 pages, which he published together with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Claus Kress, contains and comments on all provisions...