Eike W Grunert

Partner, Pinsent Masons

Dr Eike W Grunert is a partner at Pinsent Masons, based in Munich. He is a member of the global criminal risk, investigations and compliance team, and leads the German compliance practice. He advises corporations in the areas of corporate compliance and internal investigations, with a particular focus on the design, implementation, monitoring, review and effectiveness assessment of compliance management systems in key compliance risk areas, including corruption, fraud, tax and third-party compliance on environmental, social and governance matters (supply chain), sanctions and anti-money laundering. He has extensive experience in international cross-border investigations, and has conducted compliance investigations, audits and reviews on behalf of corporations as well as national and international regulators in over 40 countries, including, among others, China, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, various CEE countries and the United States. Eike regularly presents and writes on compliance-related topics, such as business partner compliance, supply chain management, corporate liability, cross-border internal investigations and gatekeeper liability. Further, Eike was a jury panel member on the first compliance management system benchmarking analysis of the then German DAX 30 corporations (Fuchs Briefe 2017).