Schalast joins Knauer&: one-stop store strategy is being aggressively expanded

Myra-Anne Bücher joins Schalast as an equity partner and establishes a new commercial and criminal tax law practice.

Strategic coup with Knauer expert

Schalast is strengthening its market position with a targeted move: Myra-Anne Bücher, previously a salary partner at Knauer& Frankfurt, is taking over the development of a new practice group for commercial and tax criminal law as an equity partner. The 48-year-old brings extensive expertise in internal investigations, strategic criminal defense and compliance advice - particularly for highly regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare and energy.

Academic reinforcement follows in July

Prof. Dr. Eva Kohler will complete the new team as Special Counsel from July as part of a cooperation agreement. The 55-year-old professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia is expanding the spectrum to include expert opinions and expert witness work in addition to traditional criminal defense.

One-stop store vision takes shape

Co-Managing Partner Prof. Dr. Andreas Walter positions the new appointments as a further building block in the realization of the "one-stop-shop" strategy - a bundled advisory offering across all areas. Schalast had already driven this strategy forward with the appointment of Philipp von Plötz for the compliance area. The systematic expansion into specialized areas of law underlines Schalast's ambition to establish itself as a full-service provider for complex mandate structures and to strengthen its competitive position vis-à-vis established players.