HSF Kramer has made a high-profile hire in Germany, adding the former secretary general of Interpol, Jürgen Stock, as a legal adviser.
Stock, who is based in Frankfurt, brings decades of experience across international crime fighting, particularly in the areas of white-collar crime, conducting complex investigations, crisis management, risk advisory, compliance and cybercrime.
Kai Liebrich, managing partner of HSF Kramer in Germany, said Sotck would be a “valuable asset” to the firm’s clients.
“Thanks to his decades of experience in senior positions, Jürgen has outstanding expertise that will benefit our national and international clients in all areas of the firm’s practice,” Liebrich added.
Stock served two terms as Interpol’s secretary general between 2014 and 2024, overseeing global operations, including one in 2024 that saw 5,500 suspects arrested for cyber fraud activities and the seizure of more than $400m in virtual assets and government-backed currencies.
From 2004 to 2014, Stock was also vice president of the German Federal Criminal Police Office, having been deputy head of its economic crime unit for two years earlier in his career in the 1990’s.
“After many years in exciting positions in the fight against crime at the interface between politics and the private sector in Germany and around the world, I am looking forward to bringing my experience to an excellently positioned international commercial law firm,” Stock said. “In times of growing uncertainty and new disruptive technologies, companies are regularly confronted with complex legal challenges, which I look forward to helping address as part of the HSF Kramer team.”
Stock is HSF Kramer’s third hire in EMEA this month after Mohammed Al Eshaikh joined as a partner in its corporate practice in Riyadh from AS&H Clifford Chance, where he was an associate, and antitrust partner Laurence Bary joined in Paris from Dechert.
In other recent white collar hires, London disputes boutique Signature Litigation made a double partner hire from Goodwin and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in July to launch the firm’s white-collar crime and investigations practice.
Reed Smith also boosted its white-collar crime capabilities in June with the hire of Richard Kovalevsky KC from US disputes boutique Cohen & Gresser’s London arm.
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