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Dr Markus Berndt advises medium-sized companies as well as global corporations in the areas of criminal compliance, commercial and corporate criminal law. He has more than 20 years of experience in dealing with investigating authorities. 

In 2018, the renowned criminal law and compliance expert, founding partner of VBB Rechtsanwälte, Orth Kluth, joined the firm as an equity partner. With Dr Markus Berndt, Malaika Nolde LL.M., specialist in data protection and IT criminal law, as well as Gereon Conrad LL.M. and Dr. Hans-Gerd Meister joined Orth Kluth. 

Strategically, the compliance team at Orth Kluth takes into account the increasing relevance of compliance consulting and rounds off the interface requirements to other legal areas of the fi