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Dr. Friedrich Schultehinrichs

Lawyer
Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law (Fachanwalt für Strafrecht)
Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht)

Dr. Friedrich Schultehinrichs, born in 1965, studied Law in Mainz. During his time as research assistant at the Department of Tax Law at the University of Mainz he took his doctorate in criminal law. His early orientation towards the field of criminal law/criminal law concerning tax offences led to his working as research assistant at the Law Office Schneider|Schultehinrichs already during his legal internship. His training took place in part in the USA. Since his admission to the Bar in 1994, he has worked in the Frankfurt law office, since 1995 as partner.

His work in criminal law concerning business offences includes both individual defence briefs and management consulting. One focus in this connection is attending to criminal law briefs concerning business offences.

Dr. Friedrich Schultehinrichs is a specialist lawyer for tax law (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht) and for criminal law (Fachanwalt für Strafrecht).

He is married with two children.

Dr. Thomas Schneider

Lawyer
Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law (Fachanwalt für Strafrecht)
Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht)

Dr. Thomas Schneider, born in 1982, studied Law at the University of Mainz. After his first state examination, he worked as a research assistant for a chair of business law at the University of Mainz, where he also gained his doctorate with a dissertation dealing with questions concerning the risk management and compliance in banking groups. Dr. Schneider took his second state examination 2010 in Mainz. During his studies he spent several months as an intern with international law firms in Chicago, Birmingham (Alabama) and Frankfurt am Main. Dr. Schneider is admitted to the Bar since 2010 and works in the fields criminal law concerning business and tax offenses as well as law of appeals.

Dr. Thomas Schneider is a specialist lawyer for criminal law (Fachanwalt für Strafrecht) and for tax law (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht).

He is married with three children.

Aleksandra Balaneskovic

Lawyer

Aleksandra Balaneskovic studied law in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on “criminal law” and passed her second state examination there in 2022. She completed her legal clerkship with stations inter alia at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (“Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht”) as well as at a Grand Criminal Chamber of the regional court in Frankfurt am Main.

Aleksandra Balaneskovic was admitted to the bar in 2022. She advises, represents and defends individuals and companies in all matters of white collar crime and criminal tax law as well as in the area of regulatory offences law.

Prior to joining Schneider|Schultehinrichs in 2023, she practiced law in a major international law firm, where she advised companies on matters of white collar crime and conducted internal investigations.

Aleksandra Balaneskovic is a member of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WiSteV). She speaks fluently English, Serbian/Croatian and Romanian.

Dr. Anne Pradel

Lawyer

Dr. Anne Pradel studied law with a focus on “criminal sciences” at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg and completed her studies with the first state examination in 2019. As part of her work at the chair of Prof. Dr. Joachim Renzikowski, she dealt with issues of national and European criminal procedure law, among other things.

After her first state examination, Dr. Anne Pradel completed her doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Jahn on the topic of the ministerial authority of the German public prosecutor’s office.

Dr. Anne Pradel completed her second state examination in 2024. During her legal clerkship, she worked at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (“BaFin”) and the Regional Court of Darmstadt and worked in renowned law firms in the field of white-collar criminal law.

Dr. Anne Pradel has been working as a lawyer since 2024. She advises, represents and defends individuals and companies in all matters of white collar crime and criminal tax law as well as in the area of administrative offense law.

Dr. Anne Pradel is a member of JuWiSt e.V.

Prof. Dr. Otto Lagodny

University Professor (retd)
Cooperation Partner

The law office works in close cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lagodny. Professor (retd) Dr. Otto Lagodny, born in 1958, studied law in Tübingen where he gained his doctorate on the law of extradition (1986). He qualified as a university lecturer in Freiburg with a thesis on the relationship between criminal law and fundamental rights (1995). Following his work at the University of Dresden (1995 – 1999) he came to the University of Salzburg. He taught and researched there, in particular in all fields of international criminal and criminal procedure law.

He is co-publisher of a commentary on the law of mutual judicial assistance covering the whole German-speaking area, now in its 6th edition. A lengthier research stay at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, rounds off his experience abroad for which eleven years of work at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law formed the basis.

Dr. Bernd Schneider

Lawyer

Dr. Bernd Schneider has resigned from the law firm Schneider|Schultehinrichs Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB as of April 30, 2022. He can be reached under the following contact details:

Rechtsanwalt Dr. Bernd Schneider
Karst Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB
Westallee 1
D-56112 Lahnstein

Tel. +49 (2621) 62 933-0
Fax. +49 (2621) 62 933-10

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