Founder and managing editor of annual corporate compliance series and sustainability series of DER BETRIEB, best-ranked German commercial law journal, Handelsblatt Group; idea, initiation, strategy, concepts, co-editors recruitment, continuous topics selection; co-editors Executive Board Members and Chief Compliance Officers of BMW, Daimler, Siemens, Telekom, ThyssenKrupp, Bayer, Henkel, BASF as well as Federal Supreme Court Chief Justices, Chief Prosecutors, State Heads of Prosecution and the President of the Federal Cartel Office

Contents (selection):

Compliance Responsibilities of Executive Boards / Board Due Diligence and Business Judgement Rule / Operational Compliance Risk Analysis / Efficient Compliance by Risk Scaling and KPI Tracking / Compliance Reporting as Monitoring Instrument / Investors Compliance Dialogue / Post-transactional Compliance Due Diligence / Innovative Compliance Training and Communication / Export Controls Compliance / Corporate Governance Codes / Compliance in International Joint Ventures / Intellectual Property Compliance / Scalable Compliance Systems / Antitrust Compliance in M&A / Risk Management in Antitrust Cases / International Sanctions Compliance

Originator, chief editor and main author of world‘s first books on Compliance Risk Management for Executive Boards, focusing on their monitoring-/steering duties to ensure effective compliance programs for full exoneration and liability release (2017, 590 p.) as well as Compliance for Supervisory Boards (2018, 380 p.) at Handelsblatt Group, largest, most traditional German economics publishers; both official bestsellers, focusing on EBIT effects, value increase and enabling Boards to meet investors’, partners’ and regulators’ requirements

Contents (selection):

Compliance Systems of Global Groups / International Compliance Standards / Compliance Steering for Top Executives / Compliance Responsibilities of CEO, CFO, COO and the Board / Compliance Leadership / Exoneration of CEOs and Executive Boards et al / Compliance Board Strategies and Corporate Governance / Risk Steering as Task of CEO, Executive Board and BoD / Elements of Compliance Monitoring / Both Effective and Efficient Compliance Systems / Risk Management and Internal Control Systems / M&A Compliance / Core Success Factors of Compliance Programs / Compliance-related Crises, Investigations and Change / Business Partner Compliance