Alexander Hellwig
“bar certified specialist in criminal law”
Certified Compliance Auditor (TÜV)
Certified Compliance Officer (TÜV)
Trainer at TÜV Rheinland on the topics of compliance, corruption prevention, Whistleblower Protection Act (Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz)
Qualifications
Alexander Hellwig is
bar certified specialist in criminal law
A bar certified specialist is a lawyer with proven expertise and practical experience in a particular area of law. The title is awarded by the Regional Bar Associations after having intensively examined whether the necessary prerequisites are fulfilled according to the Rules on Bar Certified Specialist Lawyers (Fachanwaltsordnung). The lawyer has to demonstrate knowledge and skills in his specialty area reaching far beyond those generally gained during education, training and practical job experience. Prior to achieving the status of specialist, the lawyer has to attend a 120-hour specializing course and pass several examinations. Moreover, the handling of a certain number of cases in the specialized area must be proven. A lawyer bearing the title “bar certified specialist” has to prove every year to have further expanded his expertise to the prescribed extent.
The German Rules on Bar Certified Specialist Lawyers (Fachanwaltsordnung) provide for a bar certified specialist in criminal law to demonstrate special knowledge in the following areas:
- methodology and law of criminal defense and basic principles of the relevant auxiliary sciences,
- substantive criminal law including juvenile, narcotics, traffic, commercial and tax criminal law,
- criminal procedure law including juvenile criminal and regulatory offense proceedings as well as the law governing the execution of sentences and prison law.
Languages
German, English
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Alexander Hellwig graduated from Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne and studied law in Trier, specializing in criminology. Alexander Hellwig completed his legal clerkship at the Cologne Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht Köln).
01/2021 – today In-house lawyer / head of weapons security department, responsible for war weapons and export control, transportation of war weapons and arms, explosives in a defense sector company.
05/2015 – 12/2020 In-house lawyer and compliance officer at a company in the defense sector.
08/2011 – 12/2014 Managing Director in a medium-sized industrial company.
01/2006 – 07/ 2011 Partner at the law firm Latz & Hellwig, commercial criminal law and business law, advice to companies and defense in numerous commercial criminal proceedings; contract and corporate law advice to medium-sized companies.
01/2000 – 12/2005 Partner at the law firm Hellwig & Partner, specializing in: Commercial criminal law and business law, advice to companies and defense in numerous commercial criminal proceedings; contract and corporate law advice to medium-sized companies.
03/1999 – 12/1999 Lawyer at the notary’s office of Rodert & Adenauer, Cologne
03/1998 – 02/1999 Lawyer in the law firm Dr. Leineweber, Cologne
12/1997 – 02/1998 Lawyer in the law firm Dr. Birkenstock & Partner, Cologne, Germany, a nationwide operating criminal law firm.
Alexander Hellwig advises in particular in the areas of compliance, commercial criminal law and in existential crises of companies and entrepreneurs
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