As a criminal law boutique, advising predominantly in the areas of white-collar and corporate criminal law, penal tax law and data protection criminal law, we understand how to respond to constant changes in the legal environment and how to meet the associated challenges with our wide range of competence and experience. The personal and comprehensive support of our clients is paramount during every stage of the legal proceedings. Our aim is always to provide a discreet and appropriate defence.
We regularly receive awards for our work from prestigious industry magazines. Amongst other legal matters, we advise on effective litigation avoidance strategies and provide support and assistance in the instance of internal investigations, as well as representing and defending clients before authorities and courts.
If a preliminary proceeding is initiated against a private individual by a prosecutor, this constitutes a major professional and private liability. We consistently advocate for our clients at all stages of the proceedings. We adapt our legal and procedural defence strategy to each client individually. Particularly important, is the fast and discreet closure of proceedings. In situations where trial is unavoidable, we support our clients with our long-standing experience.
Continuously more and more companies find themselves the focus of investigative authorities. If there is an alleged violation by an individual person, sometimes a leading corporate body can also be accused of misconduct. This may result in asset forfeitures and fines. It is not uncommon that companies are searched in the course of an investigation.
We represent and advise companies in a discrete manner with advice specifically tailored to such situations. In cases of misconduct by an individual, companies sometimes have a legal obligation to conduct internal investigations. We support and coordinate the entire internal investigation, including the correspondence with a variety of parties to the proceedings and other involved institutions. In addition, we support the implementation of the knowledge gained from the process in the company.
The initiation of preliminary proceedings against senior employees, managing directors and board members has increased significantly in recent years. Thus, the requirements imposed on companies in terms of risk prevention and control of law-abiding behaviour have grown in equal measure. A compliance programme and risk management system designed bespoke for the company can protect the company from risk realisation. Based on our many years of experience, we support clients in the development and implementation of such a system and conduct appropriate training.
Attorney Dr. Lilie is a Certified Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law and a Certified Advisor for White-Collar Crime (DAA). Since 2010, she has been advising companies and defending individual clients in the field of white-collar and business criminal law. Her areas of expertise include tax criminal law, banking and capital markets criminal law, corruption offenses, and compliance matters. She also represents and advises witnesses and victims of criminal offenses and provides counsel in connection with the filing of criminal complaints.
Dr. Lilie has acted as defense counsel in numerous large-scale and complex proceedings, including cases against board members of a state-owned bank involving allegations of balance sheet manipulation and breach of trust, proceedings against employees in connection with alleged “CO₂ VAT carousel fraud,” as well as cases involving allegations of tax evasion in the context of Cum-Ex transactions.
Dr. Lilie is once again individually recommended in the current JUVE Handbook (2025/2026: “dogmatically highly competent and pleasant colleague”; 2024/2025: “top defense lawyer – the Cum-Ex outcome demonstrates a smart and well-considered strategist”) in the category of white-collar crime. She has also been recognized in the Handelsblatt ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the category of white-collar crime. Wirtschaftswoche magazine lists her as one of the most renowned lawyers in the field of white-collar crime. In addition, Legal 500 has recommended her by name for several years in the category of white-collar crime.
Dr. Ihwas is a specialist lawyer for criminal law and a certified external data protection officer. His predominant focus is in areas of white-collar and corporate criminal law, data protection (criminal) law and internet criminal law. He also advises persons subject to professional secrecy on data protection law.
Dr. Ihwas defends and advises individual defendants as well as companies at all stages of proceedings. His advisory work to these companies includes the conduct of internal investigations as well as in complex scope proceedings. He also represents companies and individuals against data protection authorities in cases of violations of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Federal Data Protection Act.
Attorney Dr. Ihwas is once again recognized by name in the current JUVE Handbook 2024/2025 in the category of white-collar criminal law (“indispensable in data protection criminal law,” “brilliant mind, strong presence”). Additionally, he has been honored in the Handelsblatt ranking of “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the category of “White-Collar Criminal Law” and is listed in the Focus magazine’s attorney directory under the category “Criminal Law.” The magazine Wirtschaftswoche has listed him as one of the most renowned lawyers for white-collar criminal law since 2020. He has also been mentioned by name in the “White-Collar Criminal Law” category in Legal500 for several years.
Melissa Jung’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the speciality areas of white-collar and corporate, internet and employment criminal law. She advises and defends individuals and companies at all stages of proceedings.
She studied law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, specialising in criminal law. From 2014 to 2015, she studied at the University of Leicester in the UK, where she received the Certificate of Achievement in English Legal Studies with Distinction.
In 2024 Ms. Jung was recognized in the Handelsblatt ranking under the “Ones to Watch” category for tax criminal law.
Adrian Baldewein’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the specialty areas of white-collar and corporate, medical and data protection criminal law. He advises and represents individual defendants and companies, particularly in complex, large-scale proceedings. He also assists companies in internal investigations.
Mr. Baldewein studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, specialising in criminal law, criminal defence and white-collar crime. He spent part of his practical studies at a law firm in Mainz specialising in white-collar and corporate crime.
In addition, he devoted his attention to the intersection of law and business during his studies and acquired relevant qualifications by successfully completing modules of a Bachelor’s programme in Economics. He is currently pursuing a doctorate on a topic related to criminal procedure.
Cheyenne Becker’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the speciality areas of white-collar and corporate, environmental and foreign trade criminal law. She advises and defends individuals and companies at all stages of proceedings. In addition, she also possesses experience in the conduct of internal investigations and anti-money laundering.
She studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, specialising in criminal law and criminology. During and post studies, she worked as a research assistant in
law firms, including work at a law firm in Mainz specialising in white-collar and corporate crime. Since 2020, she already worked as a research assistant for our law firm and assisted with complex large-scale proceedings in all areas of white-collar and tax criminal law.
Our law firm emerged from an office partnership that we ran with our highly esteemed colleague and friend Dr. Wolf Schiller.
Dr. Schiller was born in 1949. He passed his first bar exam in 1972 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 1972 to 1975, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Criminal Law at the University of Frankfurt am Main (Prof Dr. Klaus Lüderssen).
In 1975, he completed his doctorate on “Grundprobleme einer empirisch strukturierten Strafgesetzgebung” (“Basic issues of empirically structured criminal legislation”). Since 1976, Dr. Schiller was an attorney in Frankfurt am Main and a notary at the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main within the district of Frankfurt am Main until January 31, 2019.
Dr. Schiller published various articles in journals, handbooks, commemorative publications and lecture collections. In 2014, the commemorative publication for Wolf Schiller was published on his 65th birthday.
Dr. Wolf Schiller sadly passed away suddenly on 19th September 2021.
In accordance with the motto of our dear colleague “Sine honore malus”, we continue our law firm in his memory.
Attorney Dr. Lilie is a Certified Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law and a Certified Advisor for White-Collar Crime (DAA). Since 2010, she has been advising companies and defending individual clients in the field of white-collar and business criminal law. Her areas of expertise include tax criminal law, banking and capital markets criminal law, corruption offenses, and compliance matters. She also represents and advises witnesses and victims of criminal offenses and provides counsel in connection with the filing of criminal complaints.
Dr. Lilie has acted as defense counsel in numerous large-scale and complex proceedings, including cases against board members of a state-owned bank involving allegations of balance sheet manipulation and breach of trust, proceedings against employees in connection with alleged “CO₂ VAT carousel fraud,” as well as cases involving allegations of tax evasion in the context of Cum-Ex transactions.
Dr. Lilie is once again individually recommended in the current JUVE Handbook (2025/2026: “dogmatically highly competent and pleasant colleague”; 2024/2025: “top defense lawyer – the Cum-Ex outcome demonstrates a smart and well-considered strategist”) in the category of white-collar crime. She has also been recognized in the Handelsblatt ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the category of white-collar crime. Wirtschaftswoche magazine lists her as one of the most renowned lawyers in the field of white-collar crime. In addition, Legal 500 has recommended her by name for several years in the category of white-collar crime.
From 2007 to 2020, Dr. Lilie was a permanent author for the C.H. Beck Criminal Law Service. From 2012 to 2018, she was the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts-, Steuer- und Unternehmensstrafrecht (NZWiSt), and since 2019 she has been an editor-in-chief of NZWiSt. She regularly publishes on foreign trade criminal law in the BeckOK StGB and on organized white-collar crime in Wabnitz/Janovsky/Schmitt, Handbook of White-Collar and Tax Criminal Law. She is a lecturer in the White-Collar Crime Certification Program (DAA) on the topic of internal investigations and teaches in the LL.M. program in White-Collar and Tax Criminal Law at the University of Cologne.
Since 2015, Dr. Lilie has served as Managing Director of the German Center for White-Collar Crime (DZWiSt). From 2010 to 2022, she was the regional representative of the Young Lawyers’ Forum for the district of the Regional Court of Mainz. In 2018, she was elected to the board of the Rheinhessen Bar Association Mainz e.V. and has served as its Chair since 2022. Dr. Lilie is also a member of the Criminal Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (DAV), the Rheinhessen Bar Association Mainz e.V., and the German Association for White-Collar Crime (WisteV).
Dr. Lilie studied law at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and completed part of her practical legal training at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York. She earned her doctorate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a dissertation entitled “The Right of Lay Judges to Access Case Files – with Particular Regard to Plea Agreements in Large-Scale Proceedings.”
Dr. Ihwas is a specialist lawyer for criminal law and a certified external data protection officer. His predominant focus is in areas of white-collar and corporate criminal law, data protection (criminal) law and internet criminal law. He also advises persons subject to professional secrecy on data protection law.
Dr. Ihwas defends and advises individual defendants as well as companies at all stages of proceedings. His advisory work to these companies includes the conduct of internal investigations as well as in complex scope proceedings. He also represents companies and individuals against data protection authorities in cases of violations of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Federal Data Protection Act.
Attorney Dr. Ihwas is once again recognized by name in the current JUVE Handbook 2024/2025 in the category of white-collar criminal law (“indispensable in data protection criminal law,” “brilliant mind, strong presence”). Additionally, he has been honored in the Handelsblatt ranking of “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the category of “White-Collar Criminal Law” and is listed in the Focus magazine’s attorney directory under the category “Criminal Law.” The magazine Wirtschaftswoche has listed him as one of the most renowned lawyers for white-collar criminal law since 2020. He has also been mentioned by name in the “White-Collar Criminal Law” category in Legal500 for several years.
He is an officially appointed examiner for the first and second bar examinations in Rhineland-Palatinate. He is a lecturer at the German FernUniversität Hagen and regularly publishes on the topics of criminal law and data protection law.
Dr. Ihwas is a member of the Ausschuss Gefahrenabwehrrecht of the Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV – “German Bar Association”) and he is member of the Verein zur Förderung des Instituts für Digitalisierung und das Recht der Inneren Sicherheit (IDRIS – “Association for the Promotion of the Institute for Digitalisation and the Law of Internal Security”) at LMU Munich. He is also a board member of the Deutsches Zentrum für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht e.V. (DZWiSt) and a member of the Criminal Law Working Group of the German Bar Association and is leading the working group IT- and Data Protection Criminal Law of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtlichen Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV).
Dr. Ihwas studied law at the University of Trier. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant in the criminal law department of Professor Dr. Mark A. Zöller at the University of Trier. During this time, he completed his doctorate summa cum laude on the topic of „Strafverfolgung in Sozialen Netzwerken – Facebook & Co. als moderne Ermittlungswerkzeuge“ (“Criminal prosecution in social networks – Facebook & Co. as modern investigative tools“).
Melissa Jung’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the
speciality areas of white-collar and corporate, internet and employment
criminal law. She advises and defends individuals and companies at all
stages of proceedings.
She studied law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, specialising in criminal law. From 2014 to 2015, she studied at the University of Leicester in the UK, where she received the Certificate of Achievement in English Legal Studies with Distinction.
In 2024 Ms. Jung was recognized in the Handelsblatt ranking under the
“Ones to Watch” category for tax criminal law.
Both during and post studies, Ms. Jung worked as a research assistant in
law firms with a focus on commercial and corporate law, where she assisted with international, English-language commercial mandates. Since her legal clerkship in the district of the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main, Ms. Jung has already worked as a research assistant in the law firm and joined the law firm Lilie • Ihwas as an attorney after successfully passing her second bar exam.
Ms. Jung is currently pursuing a doctorate on a topic related to cybercrime.
Adrian Baldewein’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the specialty areas of white-collar and corporate, medical and data protection criminal law. He advises and represents individual defendants and companies, particularly in complex, large-scale proceedings. He also assists companies in internal investigations.
Mr. Baldewein studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, specialising in criminal law, criminal defence and white-collar crime. He spent part of his practical studies at a law firm in Mainz specialising in white-collar and corporate crime.
In addition, he devoted his attention to the intersection of law and business during his studies and acquired relevant qualifications by successfully completing modules of a Bachelor’s programme in Economics. He is currently pursuing a doctorate on a topic related to criminal procedure.
He has already worked for the law firm Schiller & Kollegen as a research assistant during his legal clerkship in the district of the Oberlandesgericht Koblenz with a focus on criminal law. Following this, he joined the law firm Lilie • Ihwas as an attorney.
Adrian Baldewein is also a certified external data protection officer (TÜV®).
Cheyenne Becker’s practice focuses on general criminal law, as well as the speciality areas of white-collar and corporate, environmental and foreign trade criminal law. She advises and defends individuals and companies at all stages of proceedings. In addition, she also possesses experience in the conduct of internal investigations and anti-money laundering.
She studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, specialising in criminal law and criminology. During and post studies, she worked as a research assistant in
law firms, including work at a law firm in Mainz specialising in white-collar and corporate crime. Since 2020, she already worked as a research assistant for our law firm and assisted with complex large-scale proceedings in all areas of white-collar and tax criminal law.
Ms. Becker also worked for our law firm during her legal clerkship in the district of the Oberlandesgericht Koblenz, also with a focus on criminal law. After successfully passing her second bar exam, she joined the law firm Lilie • Ihwas as an attorney.
She is a member of the Deutsches Zentrum für Wirtschaftsstrafrecht e.V. (DZWiSt) as well as the Rheinhessischer Anwaltverein.
Unsere Kanzlei ist aus einer Bürogemeinschaft hervorgegangen, die wir mit unserem hochgeschätzten Kollegen und Freund Rechtsanwalt Dr. Wolf Schiller geführt haben.
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Schiller wurde im Jahr 1949 geboren. Das 1. Staatsexamen hat er 1972 an der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main abgelegt. Von 1972 bis 1975 war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Strafrecht an der Universität Frankfurt am Main (Prof. Dr. Klaus Lüderssen).
Im Jahr 1975 erfolgte die Promotion über „Grundprobleme einer empirisch strukturierten Strafgesetzgebung“. Seit 1976 war Dr. Schiller Rechtsanwalt zu Frankfurt am Main und war bis 31. Januar 2019 Notar beim Oberlandesgericht in Frankfurt am Main mit dem Amtsbezirk Frankfurt am Main.
Verschiedene Veröffentlichungen erfolgten in Fachzeitschriften, Handbüchern, Festschriften und Vortragssammlungen. Im Jahr 2014 wurde die Festschrift für Wolf Schiller zu seinem 65. Geburtstag veröffentlicht.
Dr. Wolf Schiller ist am 19.09.2021 plötzlich verstorben.
Gemäß dem Credo unseres lieben Kollegen „Sine honore malus“ wollen wir unsere Kanzlei in seinem Andenken fortführen.