Dr. Simone Breit

Dr. Breit joined Knierim & Kollegen in 2016 and became partner in 2022. She successfully defends and advises in white-collar cases and internal investigations. This includes investigating corruption allegations for a global engine supplier, defending a managing director of a shipyard group on the charge of delaying insolvency and advising auditors in proceedings for falsification of balance sheets and embezzlement (criminal and professional). Furthermore, Dr. Breit defends and advises in numerous criminal and administrative offence proceedings, including the areas of money laundering law, tax law and labor law. Her special focus is on investigations on money laundering and AML procedures.

Dr. Breit studied law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, specializing in criminal law and criminal defense. Her practical study periods included working in the criminal department of a London law firm. During her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Koblenz she worked, inter alia, at a Frankfurt a. M. law firm specializing in commercial criminal law.

From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Breit was also a doctoral candidate and a research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz at the chair of criminal law and criminal procedure law (Prof. Dr. Zopfs). She wrote her doctoral thesis on a subject of commercial criminal law.

Dr. Breit continues to teach criminal law at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Also, she teaches criminal procedural law at the Hessian Police Academy. She contributes to the Frankfurt Commentary on the Money Laundering Act (sec 51, 55 and 56 GWG). Since 2015 she has been a permanent author of the C.H. Beck specialist service on criminal law. She is also a member of the Association of Lawyers, the women lawyers in commercial criminal law and tax law (JuWiSt e.V.), and the Association of Commercial Criminal Law (WisteV). Since 2022, Lawyer Breit has been entitled to use the title of specialist lawyer for criminal law.