Germany
Practice Areas
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.
Professional Memberships
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
Personal
Harvard Kennedy School (Executive Education: Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century) (2022)
Stanford University (Executive Education: Strategies for Sustainability) (2020)
Nottingham Trent University (LL.M.) (2013)
Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf (Second State Exam) (2007)
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (First State Exam) (2005)
