Viktor Winkler

Prof. Winkler is one of the leading regulatory and crisis management lawyers in Europe. As an attorney he has worked on some of the most prominent and challenging legal crises of the last decade in Germany and the EU, usually including a high-stakes political and/or reputational issues. He has led one of the key compliance units of a major European bank through an U.S. monitorship, has represented companies (as part of US and UK law firms) in milestone litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union, advised companies on #MeToo cases and guided exporters through the dramatic Iran-, later Crimea- and now Russia-related sanctions wave.

A widely recognized financial sanctions and export control expert who was the Head of Standards Sanctions of a large bank and also worked for the German State Department (Auswärtiges Amt), Prof. Winkler is one of the few sanctions lawyers with experience in both EU and US sanctions, in both banking and industry sectors, and on all sides of the sanctions landscape: government, in-house, external advisory and academic research.

His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Forbes, Spiegel, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Focus, Tagesspiegel, ZDF TV, ARD and others.

Prof. Winkler is a frequent contributor to FOCUS Online, a professor of business law at IU International University and has authored numerous articles in the field of regulatory law, constitutional law, legal theory, legal history and export controls. He has been teaching law to business school students for almost twenty years.

He holds a PhD from Goethe-University (Germany) and a Master degree (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School (USA). He is a member of various museum and art-related societies. In his spare time Prof. Winkler is an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers.