Dr Christian Schoop

Partner

Highly competent, knows how to conduct complex defence cases with defendants from various companies.

Client, JUVE 2023

Emailchristian.schoop@akd.partners

Call+49 69 271 33 484

Frankfurt

About

Dr Christian Schoop advises national and international companies on all issues of commercial criminal law and the monitoring of criminal investigations. This includes both the representation of companies having suffered damage and those cases where employees committed criminal offences to the alleged benefit of the company.

A further focus of his work is on advising companies with regard to internal investigations and on the development and implementation of compliance systems. Furthermore, Christian Schoop monitors the conduct of compliance due diligence, in particular in the context of M&A transactions.

In many cases, the advice also includes the involvement of international colleagues, e.g. from the U.S. or Great Britain.

In addition to advising on traditional business crimes, such as corruption and breach of trust, Christian Schoop specializes in representing clients in connection with environmental crimes and offenses related to cyber attacks.

Areas of FocusWhite Collar and Corporate Crime Compliance Global Investigations Regulatory and Government Affairs Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Financial Services Industrials Insurance Technology

Professional QualificationRechtsanwalt admitted with Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main

EXPERIENCE

M-Dax Group: Advice (criminal, corporate and civil law) / defence in the preliminary proceedings on suspicion of tax fraud, breach of trust and bribery in 38 jurisdictions and conduct of a comprehensive internal investigation
International food manufacturer: Advice (criminal, insurance, civil and public law) / defence due to preliminary proceedings in connection with a tank explosion and a poisonous cloud (suspicion of the grossly negligent causation of an explosion etc.) and conduct of an internal investigation
International real estate funds: Internal investigation on suspicion of bribery in business transactions
International pharmaceutical company: Internal investigation regarding (civil and criminal law) product liability and product recall
International pharmaceutical company: Advice on search and seizure
DAX40 company: Advice on the introduction of a tax compliance management system
Advising a real estate fund on CEO fraud in the millions (including asset tracing and recovery in 7 jurisdictions)
Bank: Advice on cybercrime attack and theft of customer data

Awards

JUVE Handbook 2023/2024: Leading name for compliance investigations and frequently recommended for white-collar crime: advice to companies; "excellent, very good communication", client; "outstanding corporate lawyer", "strategic vision", competitor; "experienced and very good negotiator", competitor
Legal 500 Germany 2025: Recommended for compliance: internal investigations and white-collar crime: advice to companies; “Christian Schoop stands out due to his outstanding expertise, excellent social skills, strong client focus and first-class advice and client management.”, “Christian Schoop is absolutely reliable, has very sound and up-to-date knowledge, gives targeted advice, processes our inquiries quickly and is easy to work with.” and “Very good overview of complex procedures.”
Chambers Germany 2025: Recommended for compliance; “Christian Schoop is a great lawyer who is appreciated by his clients for his customer service and expertise.”, client
Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers 2024/2025: Recommended for criminal defense, criminal tax practice as well as corporate governance and compliance
WirtschaftsWoche 2025: Recommended as “top lawyer” for compliance

Education

University of Bochum First State Examination, 2002

Higher Regional Court of D sseldorf Second State Examination, 2006

University of G ttingen, Ph.D,, 2007

Publications

Seminars

Christian Schoop is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars regarding white collar crime and compliance issues.

He is the host of technical seminars, one of them is StPO-Nordseetreffen.

Prior Experience

Before joining AKD Partners in 2009 Christian worked for another international law firm in Frankfurt (2006-2009) and as research associate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (2002-2004).

Memberships And Affiliations