Lawyers
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Ria Rajana Halbritter
Ria Rajana Halbritter works in Berlin and nationwide as a criminal defense lawyer. With more than 200 main hearings per year, she has extensive practical experience in criminal procedural law and is a certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA).
Dr. Philipp Horrer
Lawyer Dr. Philipp Horrer is a specialist lawyer for criminal law and concentrates his activities exclusively on the areas of criminal law, criminal tax law and regulatory offences law. He is active nationwide as a defense lawyer and consultant for individuals and companies.
Attorney Dr. Philipp Horrer is a specialist lawyer for criminal law and concentrates his activities exclusively on the areas of criminal law, criminal tax law and regulatory offences law. He is active nationwide as a defense lawyer and consultant for individuals and companies.
One focus is on advising companies on criminal law in all areas of commercial criminal law and regulatory offences. He represents the interests of companies before or during ongoing criminal proceedings (corporate defense or representation of injured companies) in this regard. In addition, Dr. Horrer heads internal investigations and, if necessary, coordinates with other parties such as auditors, tax advisors, individual defense attorneys or, for example, labor law advisors.
In addition to his work in the field of criminal commercial law, Dr. Horrer regularly defends clients nationwide in general criminal law as well as in administrative offences law (OWiG) at all stages of criminal proceedings (preliminary investigation, interlocutory proceedings, trial).
Dr. Horrer is regularly involved in advising and supporting witnesses before and during their testimony (witness assistance). He also files criminal charges for injured companies and individuals and accompanies or supports initiated criminal proceedings.
Attorney Dr. Philipp Horrer has extensive expertise and practical experience in preventive criminal law advice for individuals and companies (compliance) to avoid risks under criminal law and regulatory offences. He implements a compliance management system in companies, develops compliance guidelines, prepares legal opinions, answers individual questions and conducts compliance training and workshops in companies, associations and institutions.
Attorney Dr. Horrer has been a lecturer for many years within the framework of further training for lawyers and trains other specialist lawyers for criminal law. For two market-leading further education providers, he regularly holds lectures and training courses for other specialist lawyers, e.g. in the areas of criminal law relating to corruption, labor law, compliance and criminal law risk prevention.
Dr. Ulrich Wehner
Dr. Ulrich Wehner has been active for many years as a criminal defense lawyer and in advising and representing companies. He defends and advises in all areas of criminal commercial and fiscal law as well as in general criminal law.
Both forensically and in an advisory capacity, Dr. Ulrich Wehner, attorney and specialist lawyer for criminal law, assists companies and individuals at the criminal law interface with antitrust law. A further focus of his work is defense in cross-border cases and cases with international implications.
Working languages besides German
English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Working languages besides German
English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Marina Graichen
Ms. Graichen defends clients and advises in all areas of (commercial) criminal law and regulatory offences law in ongoing proceedings as well as in associated consulting. One focus of her work is the representation of service providers in the health care sector (nursing services, doctors, dentists, etc.).
From 2008 to 2013 she studied law at the European University Viadrina. Her main focus of interest there was on criminal justice, especially medical criminal law. Also during her legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Brandenburg she focused on criminal law.
She has been working as a lawyer since the beginning of 2016, and from the beginning she has worked exclusively in the field of criminal law. She has been continuing her professional career as a criminal defense attorney at H2W Criminal Law since October 2019. Here, too, she frequently works in medical and medical criminal law.
Marina Graichen was born in Moscow in 1988. She is a native speaker of Russian, German and English.
Dr. Anne-Katrin Wolf
Dr. Anne-Katrin Wolf, LLM. (KCL), Maîtrise (Paris II) is a lawyer working exclusively in the field of criminal law. Most recently, she worked in a renowned Berlin criminal law firm both in general criminal law and in compliance and criminal commercial law.
Dr. Anne-Katrin Wolf studied law in Berlin (Humboldt University Berlin), Paris (Panthéon-Assas) and London (King’s College London). In addition to her work in criminal law, Dr. Wolf focuses on international law and human rights. She has worked as a research assistant at the chairs of international law and human rights at the University of Potsdam and Zurich. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “Aktivlegitimation im UN-Individualbeschwerdeverfahren” and was published by Mohr Siebeck. Dr. Wolf also brings the human rights perspective to the development of effective defense approaches.
After her studies, Dr. Wolf worked as an employee at the Federal Ministry of Justice and for consumer protection in the project group round table against sexual child abuse and completed an internship at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Dr. Wolf is a member of the Criminal Law Commission of the German Association of Women Lawyers (djb), where she works in particular on the issues of the protection of women against violence and the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Germany. She is a mentor at the JurMep network of the University of Potsdam.
Her working languages are German, English and French.
Henning Beu
Attorney Henning Beu advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law.
He already focused on criminal law during his studies. He completed his studies with a focus on “Criminology and Criminal Justice”. He completed his legal clerkship at the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court. His stations included a specialist law firm for criminal law, the Brandenburg police headquarters and twice the Potsdam public prosecutor's office. There, he gained extensive practical experience in main hearings at an early stage through numerous court appearances.
Henning Beu completed his legal clerkship as the best in his year out of more than 250 participants in the Berlin-Brandenburg district. Since then, he has been working as a lawyer at H2W Criminal Law - with a focus on white-collar criminal law and general criminal law.
His working languages are German and English.
Lennart Kretschmer
Lennart Kretschmer has been working at H2W Criminal Law since 2025. He advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law.
One focus of his work is the defense in criminal tax matters, including appeal proceedings. In this area, he also represents private individuals and companies vis-à-vis the tax authorities, for example in objection proceedings, in matters relating to voluntary declarations exempting from prosecution or in cross-border matters. In addition to his work in criminal tax proceedings, Mr. Kretschmer is also active as a defence lawyer in all areas of general criminal law.
He studied law in Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa) and completed his studies in 2019 with the First State Examination. During his studies, he already focused on criminal law and international criminal law. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Media Criminal Law (Leipzig University), where he was involved in a nationwide evaluation of anti-doping legislation and a research project on European sexual criminal law on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice.
He then gained practical experience as a research assistant in a renowned Berlin criminal law firm. After completing his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, he began his professional career at a boutique law firm in Frankfurt am Main specializing in criminal tax law.
Mr. Kretschmer is a member of the Republican Lawyers Association (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e. V.)., the Association of Berlin Criminal Defense Lawyers (Vereinigung Berliner Strafverteidiger*innen e. V.) and the German Lawyers Association (Deutscher Anwaltsverein e. V).
His working languages are German and English.
