Anahita Thoms

Anahita Thoms heads Baker McKenzie's International Trade Practice in Germany and is the co-chair of our Global Crisis Management and Strategic Response Group. She is a member of our EMEA Steering Committee for Investigations, Compliance & Ethics and our Global Lead Sustainability Partner for our Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Group. She serves as an Advisory Board Member in profit and non-profit organizations, such as Atlantik-Brücke, and is an elected National Committee Member at UNICEF Germany. She has served for three consecutive terms as the ABA Co-chair of the Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee and as the ABA Vice-Chair of the International Human Rights Committee. Anahita has also been an Advisory Board Member (Beirätin) of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council of the German Government and has been appointed to the Global Future Council on Good Governance of the World Economic Forum.

Anahita focuses her practice on global investigations and white-collar crime proceedings before German authorities and courts. She has significant experience advising executive and supervisory boards on cross-border investigation, complex corporate governance and a wide range of crisis scenarios. Anahita accompanies internal and external investigations and self-disclosures, inter alia in cases of breaches of sanctions, export control, human rights, harassment, expense fraud, closely collaborating with the competent authorities.

Deutsches Komitee UNICEF e.V. - Member

American Bar Association - Member of the International Human Rights Steering Committee

Berlin Bar Association - Member

Dusseldorf Bar Association - Member

American Bar Association - Co-chair of the ABA Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee

American Bar Association - Member of the ABA Privacy, E-Commerce and Data Security Steering Committee

Atlantik-Brücke e.V. - Board Member