Rainer Birke

Partner of the law firm Wessing & Partner (Dusseldorf)/ a law office working exclusively in the field of white-collar crime and tax crime. Rainer is chairman of the German-Ukrainian Lawyer’s Association, a non-profit organization under German law (DUJV e.V.). He received a PHD equivalent Dr. iur at the Law Faculty of Technische Universität Dresden with “summa cum laude”, where he has been working as the assistant of Prof. Dr. Otto Lagodny in the field of criminal law, criminal procedure and international cooperation in criminal matters. His publications are focusing on white-collar crime and criminal law, often in an international context.