Dr Sabine Stetter is managing partner at stetter Rechtsanwälte. She studied law at the Ludwig‑Maximilian University in Munich and at the London School of Economics. From 2000 to 2003 she worked in criminal appeal proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction, in Karlsruhe. For nearly 20 years she has devoted herself exclusively to criminal business and criminal tax law, and she founded stetter Rechtsanwälte in 2010. Dr Stetter’s doctorate in criminal tax law provided a comparative evaluation of the German and American law systems in this area of practice.
Besides white collar crime, anti-corruption and compliance, Dr. Stetter has long-standing experience in US-related cases and US criminal procedure both in personal and corporate proceedings.
Furthermore, Dr Stetter is one of the co-authors of the Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Strafverteidigung and Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Verteidigung in Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafsachen (both standard references for German defence counsel), the Handbuch Arbeitsstrafrecht (a comprehensive practical guide to the responsibility of company personnel in respect of labour criminal liability risk) as well as the Handbuch des Fachanwalts Medizinrecht (a standard reference for medical law). She is a member and speaker of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. Since 2019, Dr. Sabine Stetter is regional representative western Europe of the anti-corruption committee of the IBA.