Elke Wurster
Attorney-at-Law
Maîtrise en droit international
Certified Compliance Officer (univ.)
Elke Wurster is a highly experienced lawyer primarily specializing in compliance, antitrust and insolvency law, although her expertise also includes contract and commercial law. She advises and supports companies on all aspects of compliance, including establishment of compliance management systems, employee training, internal investigation of compliance issues, and also offers regular compliance counselling. Her particular legal expertise is in antitrust and anti-corruption law.
Elke not only represents her clients out of court, but regularly conducts litigation proceedings on their behalf in asserting or defending complex claims in different areas of commercial law.
| Since 2019 | Lecturer for compliance and data protection at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management |
Since 2018 | Attorney-at-law (Partner) at Maiwald |
2016-2017 | Attorney-at-law |
2012-2015 | Director Legal & Compliance at Balfour Beatty Rail GmbH |
2003-2012 | Attorney-at-law at BRS Rödl & Partner in Paris and Taylor Wessing in Munich |
Since 2016 | Certified Compliance Officer (univ.) |
2004 | Admitted to the bar |
2001-2003 | Trainee lawyer in Stuttgart, Paris and Brussels |
1995-2001 | Studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
1998-1999 | Studied law at the Aix-Marseille Université |
- Lawsuit
- Drafting of contracts
- Developing compliance management systems
- Asserting and defending of antitrust damage claims
- Antitrust proceedings
- Asserting and defending of claims in insolvency proceedings or in insolvency-related situations
- Conducting internal investigations
- Handling of corporate law issues
- Advising in criminal law investigations regarding economic offences
- Recommended in Handelsblatt | Best Lawyers "Germany's Best Lawyers" 2021
- "Patent(s) Security in Uncertain Times", Wirtschaftsratgeber SMART - „Chancen der Krise" (together with Susanna Heurung, Alexander Ortlieb, Dr Marco Stief and Dr Eva Dörner)
- Compliance-Anforderungen für ein wirksames Risikomanagement, MPJ - Medizinprodukte Journal, 11/2019 (together with Christian Pisani)
- Den Weg absichern: Compliance-Management-Systeme, DATEV magazin, 02/2019 (together with Stephan Mauer)
- Die einvernehmliche Aufhebung des Arbeitsvertrages diesseits und jenseits des Rheines, in: Frankreich in München und Bayern, 2018
- Gefährliche Geschenke!,DATEV magazin, 02/2018
- Compliance-Beratung durch eine Arbeitsrechtskanzlei, Wirtschaftsführer für junge Juristen 2017-2018, 10/2017
- Compliance-Verstöße vermeiden, DATEV magazin, 07/2017
- Preisabsprachen: Auch der bloße Informationsaustausch kann relevant sein, Interview mit dem Schwäbischen Tagblatt, 03/2017
- Les sûretés immobilières en Allemagne et en France: brève comparaison (z. Dt. Die Immobiliarsicherheiten in Deutschland und Frankreich: ein kurzer Vergleich), in: JURIShebdo Immobilier, 04/2011 (together with Pierre Taillot)
- Haftungsrisiken des Steuerberaters und Anfechtbarkeit seiner Honoraransprüche bei Krise und Insolvenz der beratenen GmbH, StBW Steuerberater Woche, 05/2010
- Bar Association
- Munich Antitrust Forum
- Franco-German Business Club in Bavaria
- DFJ
- AEU
- FIM (Women in Management)
German, French, English