Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2021 Founding partner and lawyer Frank Eckstein advises and represents companies and executives, as well as their employees, in particular with regard to commercial criminal law and criminal tax law. Mr. Eckstein has more than 35 years’ professional experience in this very specialized field. His particular expertise lies in defence at trial, particularly in large scale cases such as Cum-ex and fraud proceedings.
Mr. Eckstein also has many years of extensive experience in compliance consulting.
Career
After studying law at the University of Münster, Frank Eckstein completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Munich. In 1989, he was admitted to the bar at the Munich Bar Association and since then has worked exclusively as a criminal defence lawyer nationwide. In 1997, he was also admitted as a specialist lawyer for criminal law. In 1989, he began working nationwide as a lawyer and criminal defence counsel with the law firm Bossi, Ufer, Brandl und Dr. Ziegert. In 1993, he founded the law firm Eckstein, Leitner & Prosotowitz in Munich as a partner. Frank Eckstein remained a partner of Leitner until 2011.
At the beginning of 2012, he founded the law firm Eckstein & Kollegen in Munich.
Frank Eckstein can look back on many years of forensic experience in all areas of criminal law, which today form the basis for his defence and consulting activities in the entire field of criminal law. For years, his focus has been on criminal tax law and white-collar crime, in particular corruption, insolvency and bankruptcy offences, embezzlement and fraud.
In the relevant Focus Spezial special editions on the subject of law, the law firm and Eckstein himself have for years been named Top Lawyer in the area of criminal law and are disproportionately recommended by colleagues. In addition, Frank Eckstein and the law firm are repeatedly listed as a TOP law firm/lawyer in the area of commercial criminal law in the business news magazine Wirtschaftswoche. In the JUVE Handbook, in ‘brand eins’ as well as in Best Lawyers, Frank Eckstein and the law firm Eckstein & Kollegen are repeatedly listed as one of the best law firms in Germany in the field of commercial criminal law.
Frank Eckstein has been a member of the Expert Committee for Criminal Law at the Munich Bar Council since 2017 and its chairman since July 2021.
