Veit Buetterlin-Goldberg

Veit is the local market leader for our German operations and a Partner & Managing Director in our Investigations, Disputes & Advisory practice. He works with board members and senior executives to develop risk management strategies and advises on responses to urgent regulatory and reputational challenges. He has deep industry experience as a senior inhouse finance and compliance professional and as a consultant, with a consistent record of restoring trust with regulators and other stakeholders.

He is internationally recognized as a “financial crime expert” (CNN) for his roles in high-profile compliance and risk management transformation projects. His most notable engagements relate to anti-money laundering, sanctions, tax, corruption, asset tracing, financial statement fraud, ESG, IBOR, Dieselgate, and bankruptcy cases.

Veit has supported clients on-site in more than 20 countries. He served as expert (witness) in international arbitrations, International Court of Justice, UK High Court, German court, and U.S. criminal proceeding contexts and led assessments in the context of examinations commissioned by the European Central Bank (ECB), the German Federal Bank, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), and other European regulators. He had numerous key roles related to U.S. monitorships commissioned by the DOJ, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and U.S. bank regulators.

His in-house experience includes acting as a money laundering reporting officer, a divisional head of investigations, an internal audit manager, and holding CFO responsibility in various multinational companies.

Veit gained his doctoral degree with a mathematical environmental economics thesis from Tuebingen University and completed Yale University's Climate Change Risk Management program. He researched at Harvard University and gained another graduate degree from the University of Heidelberg. Additionally, Veit is an Adjunct Professor at University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is frequently invited as a speaker and lecturer at international conferences and renowned universities, such as Oxford University, St. Gallen University, Zurich University, and Frankfurt University. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Fraud Specialist (CFS), a Certified Professional Forensic Accountant (CPFAcct), and a Certified Professional Internal Auditor (CPIA).