Dr. Maximilian F. Schlutz is an associate in Willkie’s German practice. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Willkie’s Global Trade & Investment, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and Environmental, Social & Governance practice groups.
Max focuses on matters of corporate and criminal compliance, white collar defense & investigations as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments.
He advises clients from various industries in the areas of Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering / Countering Terrorist Financing, with a focus on Business-Partner Compliance / Third Party Management, and Compliance Management Systems.
In particular, he gained specific experience in the context of (DOJ/SEC-appointed) independent compliance monitorships and authored Compliance Monitorships: How can a U.S. instrument determine the day-to-day operations of German companies (2021).
Max focuses on matters of corporate and criminal compliance, white collar defense & investigations as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments.
He advises clients from various industries in the areas of Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering / Countering Terrorist Financing, with a focus on Business-Partner Compliance / Third Party Management, and Compliance Management Systems.
In particular, he gained specific experience in the context of (DOJ/SEC-appointed) independent compliance monitorships and authored Compliance Monitorships: How can a U.S. instrument determine the day-to-day operations of German companies (2021).
Further, he gained experience during an in-house secondment to a multinational commodity trading and mining company.
His clients include in particular financial and professional services companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, trading, healthcare and information technology sectors.
Max authored within the juris PraxisReport Compliance & Investigations and contributed to the WilmerHale Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Reviews 2020 to 2022 and to the WilmerHale FCPA Treatise 2020.
Prior to joining Willkie, Max worked in the course of his legal career for various international law firms in New York, Dubai, Sydney, Los Angeles, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, mostly in the areas of Compliance and Corporate/M&A.
Max is fluent in German and English.
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His clients include in particular financial and professional services companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, trading, healthcare and information technology sectors.
Max authored within the juris PraxisReport Compliance & Investigations and contributed to the WilmerHale Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Reviews 2020 to 2022 and to the WilmerHale FCPA Treatise 2020.
Prior to joining Willkie, Max worked in the course of his legal career for various international law firms in New York, Dubai, Sydney, Los Angeles, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, mostly in the areas of Compliance and Corporate/M&A.
Max is fluent in German and English.
Experience
Prior to joining Willkie, Max worked in the course of his legal career for various international law firms in New York, Dubai, Sydney, Los Angeles, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, mostly in the areas of Compliance and Corporate/M&A.
- “Compliance Monitorships: Wie kann ein US-Instrumentarium den Alltag deutscher Unternehmen bestimmen?” (Volume 1 of CB - Compliance Berater publication series, published by Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft 2021, ISBN 978-3-8005-9408-5).
- “Verpflichtung zur Übermittlung nicht protokollierter IP-Adressen”, juris PraxisReport Compliance & Investigations, Anmerkung zu BVerfG, Nichtannahmebeschluss vom 20.12.2018, 2 BvR 2377/16 von Prof. Dr. Norbert Nolte, RA, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Düsseldorf.
*Max advised on these matters prior to joining Willkie
- Secondment to the compliance team of a multinational commodity trading and mining company.*
- Advice to a German-based global healthcare company as part of a DOJ / SEC appointed independent compliance monitorship.*
- Advice to a global professional services firm in relation to German tax investigations.*
- Advice to a NYSE-listed global science and technology investor on its acquisition of a German leading provider of high-performance cell technology for the manufacturing of advanced biotherapeutics.*
- Advice to a US tech company in its Series A financing round.*
- Advice to an international industrial tech conglomerate on general corporate matters.*
- Advice to one of the largest organic corn suppliers in Germany on its acquisition of a major stake in a pet products company.*
- Advice to a leading German cosmetics company on private acquisitions and a series of financing rounds.*
- Advice to US venture capital investors in financing rounds of German tech and software companies.*
Credentials
Education
Goethe University of Frankfurt, Dr. jur., 2021 Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, Second State Exam, 2018 Goethe University of Frankfurt, Law Degree, 2015