Dr. Matthias Brockhaus
- Lawyer
- Certified Specialist for Criminal Law
- Partner
«Wirtschaftsstrafrecht bedeutet weit mehr als klassische Strafverteidigung. Es ist zu einem Mittel präventiv wirkender, moralisierender Unternehmenskontrolle verkommen. Es motiviert mich jeden Tag neu, solchen existenzbedrohenden Angriffen mit großem Engagement entgegenzutreten oder diesen vorzubeugen, sei es als Verteidiger, Unternehmensvertreter oder in der Präventivberatung.»
Dr Matthias Brockhaus has been working as a lawyer since 2005, initially in Berlin, then at the law firm Wessing II Verjans and later at VBB Rechtsanwälte. He has been a partner in the firm since 2013. He advises and defends individuals and companies in all areas of commercial and tax criminal law. He specialises in asset, corruption and capital market criminal law. However, doctors, pharmacists, private and municipal clinics as well as companies from the pharmaceutical industry also rely on his special expertise in medical and medical criminal law.
Dr Brockhaus also coordinates and defends clients in so-called "scope proceedings". Dr Brockhaus supports medium-sized and municipal companies in the area of preventive criminal law advice and in the establishment and expansion of efficient internal compliance management structures.
According to the specialist magazine Juve, Dr Brockhaus is regularly recommended by other lawyers and clients. The specialist and business press has regarded Dr Brockhaus as a leading lawyer in white-collar criminal law for many years.
Dr Matthias Brockhaus is also the author of numerous publications on commercial and medical criminal law as well as criminal procedure law. He is also a lecturer at the Justizakademie NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Judicial Academy) in further training for public prosecutors and judges as well as at numerous specialist conferences. Furthermore, he is a member of the Law, Taxes & Public Budgets Committee of the IHK Ruhr for Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen as well as honorary judge in the 2nd Chamber of the Düsseldorf Lawyers' Court and Board member of the German Ombudsman Association - Vereinigung deutscher Vertrauensanwälte e.V.
Memberships:
- Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Strafrecht des DAV
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medizinrecht des DAV
- Strafverteidigervereinigung NRW e.V.
- Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (WisteV)
- Deutsche Strafverteidiger e.V.
- European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) und European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers
- German Ombudsman Association - Vereinigung deutscher Vertrauensanwälte e.V.
Career
- seit 2026
Stellvertretender Vorsitzender in der German Ombudsman Association - Vereinigung deutscher Vertrauensanwälte e.V.
- seit 2025
Mitglied im Präsidium des Anwaltsgericht Düsseldorf
- since 2017
Honorary judge at the Düsseldorf Lawyers' Court
- since 2013
Partner of the law firm VBB Rechtsanwälte
- 2010
Foundation of the VBB office in Essen
- since 2010
Certified Specialist for Criminal Law
- since 2006
Lawyer in the law firm VBB Rechtsanwälte in Düsseldorf
- 2006
Lawyer in the law firm Wessing II Verjans
- since 2005
Lawyer, initially in general criminal defence in Berlin
- 2006
Doctorate (Dr. iur.) with a comparative law thesis in criminal law, awarded the Wolf-Rüdiger-Bub Prize for the promotion of young legal talent
- 2003 - 2006
Doctoral candidate / research assistant at the Chair of Criminal Law with Juvenile Criminal Law and Criminology (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mitsch) at the University of Potsdam
- 2000 - 2002
Legal clerkship at Potsdam Regional Court / Brandenburg Higher Regional Court, including at a criminal defence law firm in Berlin and the Australian-German Lawyer Association (AGLA) in Sydney
- 1994 - 2000
Studied law at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Vienna (Institute for European Law, International Law and Comparative Law), the University of Sydney (Australia) and the University of Potsdam (doctoral studies)
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