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Dr. Tony Rostalski

Lawyer

Specialist lawyer for criminal law

Certified data protection officer (TÜV)

Lawyer

Specialist lawyer for criminal law

Certified data protection officer (TÜV)

Dr. Tony Rostalski advises and represents companies and individuals in all areas of commercial and criminal tax law as well as administrative offences law. He also specializes in compliance advice for companies and in the public sector. 

Dr. Tony Rostalski is regularly named TOP lawyer in the relevant lawyer rankings - including Handesblatt, WirtschaftsWoche, Focus Business.

Qualification

Studied law in Heidelberg and Marburg

‍Referendariat at the Marburg Regional Court

‍Doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Philipps University of Marburg on a topic related to criminal tax law ("Alternativ legitimierte Verhaltensnormen", Mohr Siebeck Tübingen), accompanying research stay in the United States (Dr. jur. 2017)

Attorney at law since 2017

‍Specialist lawyerfor criminal law

Ombudsperson/external reporting office according to HinSchG for numerous employers in the public sector and the economy, e.g. lawyer of confidence of the contribution service of ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk

In-house training on corporate compliance topics (C-level, multiplier training, e-learning)

Lecturer at the leading training providers in Germany, including TÜV Rheinland Akademie (certificate course Compliance Officer, Compliance Risk Analysis), Kommunales Bildungswerk (KBW), Akademie des Deutschen Beamtenbundes (specialist training on the Whistleblower Protection Act), BITKOM Akademie (including co-author of the e-learning KI-Komptenzschulung 2025)

‍‍Publications: Dr. Tony Rostalski regularly publishes academic articles on topics of white-collar criminal law and compliance, including in the handbook "Corporate Criminal Liability in Germany" (Kruse/Tute) and in the commentary "Medizinstrafrecht" (Tsambikakis/F. Rostalski).

‍Memberships include German Bar Association (Criminal Law Working Group), Cologne Bar Association, Association for Commercial Criminal Law, German Ombudsman Association, DICO German Institute for Compliance

References

WirtschaftsWoche
"TOP Lawyer" 2025
Commercial criminal law
Best Lawyers & Handelsblatt
Best Law Firms 2025
Criminal tax law

Languages

German

English