Attorney Serkan Erdogan [PK1] advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law, especially commercial, medical, and IT criminal law as well as criminal tax law. His focus areas include the defence of companies and criminal law advice in internal investigations.

Prior to joining Knauer&, he had already worked for more than two years as an attorney for a Berlin-based law firm that is active nationwide and specialises in commercial, medical, and IT criminal law as well as criminal tax law. His multi-faceted and continuously growing experiences in dealing with investigating authorities – accompanying both damaged and accused parties – allow him to develop personalised strategies.

During his studies at Freie Universität in Berlin and the University of Warwick in Coventry (UK) and during his postgraduate legal clerkship at the Berlin Appellate Court, Attorney Serkan Erdogan already chose commercial criminal law as a focus area. He gained initial practical experience, especially also in the area of transnational internal investigations, by working several years as research associate in globally operating law firms specialising in commercial law.

He obtained [PK2] his PhD with a doctoral thesis on the topic of “Internal investigations and their consideration in the sanctioning of businesses”.

In addition, he regularly publishes essays and gives lectures on specialist criminal law topics.

Serkan Erdogan speaks German, Turkish, and English.

• Commercial criminal law (inter alia fraud, embezzlement, subsidy fraud)

• Compliance/internal investigations

• Medical practitioner and medical criminal law/corruption in the healthcare sector

• IT and data protection criminal law/cybercrime

• Corruption and money laundering: prevention and defence

• Criminal tax law

• Appeals

• Criminal law expert opinions

• Zur Strafbarkeit der Verbreitung eines Erpressungstrojaners über das Internet (Ransomware), gemeinsam mit Tilmann Dittrich in ZWH 2022, S. 13 ff.

• Datenschutzrechtliche Wirksamkeitsvoraussetzungen bei der Einwilligung in eine strafprozessuale Ermittlungsmaßnahme, Anm. zu LG Kiel, 10. Große Strafkammer, Beschluss, 19.08.2021, 10 Qs 43/21, jurisPR-StrafR 5/2022, Anm. 1

• Cyberrisiken in Krankenhäusern – rechtliche Aspekte und praktische Umsetzungshinweise, gemeinsam mit Diana Nadeborn, KH-J 2/2022, S. 37 ff.

• Business-Continuity nach Cyberangriffen – Compliance-Pflichten bei der Beantragung von Kurzarbeitergeld nach Cyberangriffen („Cyberkurzarbeit“), gemeinsam mit Tilmann Dittrich in CCZ, Heft 12/2022, S. 398 ff.

• „Zugriff auf Passwörter durch Ermittlungsbehörden – Reichweite von Ermittlungsbefugnissen und Verteidigungsstrategien“, Vortrag beim Berliner Anwaltsverein am 21.06.2023

• Berliner Anwaltsverein (BAV)

German, Turkish, English