Gottfried Graf von Bassewitz

Gottfried Graf von Bassewitz focuses his practice on corporate transactional, white collar investigation and compliance matters.

He acts for financial investors, corporates and management teams on a broad range of M&A, private equity and financing transactions – both domestic and cross-border. Graf Bassewitz has comprehensive experience advising on corporate law, joint-ventures and reorganisations across a wide variety of sectors and industries. He also advises on the effectiveness of compliance policies as well as on harm minimisation strategies for high-risk corporate and commercial transactions.

Graf Bassewitz also has considerable expertise in white collar defense matters, notably complex multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional investigations. He was a key member of the Airbus legal team that secured a landmark deferred prosecution agreement – the first coordinated settlement between the UK, U.S. and French prosecuting authorities in history. His experience includes anti-bribery and anti-money laundering compliance as well as tax, antitrust and cartel investigations with a particular focus on their corporate, transactional and remediation aspects.

Prior to joining Dechert, Graf Bassewitz worked in the corporate practice groups of international law firms in Frankfurt, Germany and Atlanta, Georgia.