Peter Christian Felst Partner
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Qualification
Lawyer, Certified compliance officer and compliance auditor, certified money laundering and data protection officer
Areas of expertise
Special sector knowledge
- Financial services
- Insurances
- Industrials
Languages
- German
- English
- Spanish
Brief biography
- Since 1999 Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars)
- 1998 Wilmer Hale LLP, Foreign Lawyer Exchange Program
- 1996 - 1998 Traineeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal
- 1990 - 1995 Studies at the University of Hamburg
- 1988 - 1990 Bank traineeship at Deutsche Bank AG in Hamburg
Profile
Peter Christian Felst is a Partner at Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars) and leads the legal department in Hamburg. His practice focuses on corporate law, transactional advice to companies and regulatory advice to clients subject to government regulation. Furthermore, he advises clients on all compliance issues, including directors' and officers' liability and audits clients' compliance systems. In privacy law, he acts as an external data protection officer, conducts data protection audits and advises clients on all privacy law issues. In his certifications, he is regularly active as a speaker for clients and as a lecturer. Peter Christian Felst chairs the Money Laundering Working Group of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) in money laundering law. Also, he represents the IDW in this area at the European level. Peter Christian Felst is also deputy chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Lawyers' Pension Fund.
Professional memberships and other roles
- External data protection officer for various companies
- Data protection and money laundering officer of Forvis Mazars GmbH & Co. KG
- IDW - Member of the Money Laundering Working Group
- Member of the Administrative Committee of the Schleswig-Holstein Pension Fund for Lawyers
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Pages associated to Peter Christian Felst
Industries
Services
- Compliance Management
- Compliance & compliance-related areas of law
- Compliance
- Data Protection
- New challenges – comprehensive legislative changes and projects in connection with the transparency register
- Corporate
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Corporate Compliance & Risk
- Der Umgang mit dem Whistleblowing nach dem Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz – was kommt auf Ihr Unternehmen zu?
- Transparency Register Need for action by German subsidiaries/companies and foreign real estate companies
- New whistleblower protection law – Companies required to implement a whistleblowing system
- Das Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutz-Gesetz (TTDSG)
- Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG) nunmehr verabschiedet
- Strafe von 1,2 Mrd. € gegen Meta durch die irische Datenschutzbehörde
- Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
- Compliance in Unternehmen: Vorschriften einhalten, Integrität gewährleisten
- Fact Sheet Datenschutz: EuGH-Urteil vom 05.12.2023, C-807/21
Insights
- Insolvenzrecht
- Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz: ab Mitte Dezember auch Pflicht in kleineren Unternehmen
- „Das Hinweisgebersystem ist Teil einer funktionierenden Compliance-Kultur“
- Virtuelle Hauptversammlung sorgt für Diskussionen
- Was Aufsichtsrät*innen über das Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz wissen müssen
- Warum Aufsichtsrät*innen den passenden Ton finden sollten
Who we are
- Reporting obligations according to the Transparency Register
- Gremiensitzungen in Zeiten der Beschränkungen wegen COVID-19
- COVID-19: Insolvenzrecht
- BGH-Urteil: Einwilligung in die nicht notwendigen Cookies
- The new reorganisation and restructuring law
- Transparency register: Are companies facing extended reporting obligations?
- Prüfung und Praxisorganisation zur Bekämpfung von Geldwäsche und Terrorismusfinanzierung
- Anforderungen des Datenschutzes an die Dokumentation von Medizinprodukten
- Datentransfer mit Großbritannien nach Brexit
- Ukraine War: Impact on EU companies following sanctions on Russia
- Gesundheitsdaten in der Cloud – Überblick über die datenschutzrechtlichen Anforderungen bei der Nutzung von Cloud-Diensten
- Gesichtserkennungssoftware im Visier der Datenschutzbehörden
- Das neue Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz – Implementierungspflicht eines Systems für Whistleblowing im Unternehmen