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Biography

Dr. Oliver Pragal, LL.M. (Cape Town) has been admitted to the Hamburg Bar since 2007 and is a Certified Specialist Lawyer in Criminal Law since 2012. Dr. Pragal also is the Chair of the Committee on Criminal Law of the Hanseatic Bar Association in Hamburg. JUVE-magazine laudes Dr. Pragal for many years as "professionally excellent, competent, and judicious.“ Dr. Pragal is particularly active in complex white-collar-proceedings, many of them "cross-border". This also increasingly entails cross-border investigations involving foreign investigative authorities or the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). In addition to defending individuals, Dr. Pragal is regularly hired as corporate defence counsel and as a criminal law advisor in compliance crises and internal investigations. He is co-author of the handbook “Richtiges Verhalten in der Compliance-Krise” [“Adequate management of the Compliance Crisis”] (1st edition 2023; ed.: Dr. Philipp Engelhoven). Beginning with his dissertation on the offence of bribery and corruption in business transactions (§ 299 StGB) at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Dr. Pragal boasts over 20 years of expertise in the field of criminal law relating to corruption. This specialisation covers the offences of bribery and corruption in the health sector (§ 299a/b StGB). Dr. Pragal has published numerous articles on the subject. For the best possible handling of such proceedings, Dr. Pragal has a worldwide network of experienced and highly qualified colleagues in all important jurisdictions – the “Global Defence Alliance” (https://pragal-prinzenberg.de/en/competencies/criminal-defence/global-defence-alliance/) of which he is a founding member – at his disposal.