Guenter Degitz

Guenter Degitz has more than 25 years of professional experience in international investigations and electronic discovery projects. The matters he worked on concerned management misconduct, antitrust violations, sanctions breaches, money laundering, corruption, breaches of US tax obligations, dispute resolutions, product liability, data leaks, and data privacy breaches.

He advised financial institutions and corporates in the context of government enforcement actions and compliance transformation programs. His engagements covered a wide range of industries, reaching from financial services and private equity to automotive, telecommunications, consumer goods, logistics and transportation, pharmaceuticals, sports and entertainment. He had been engaged in high-profile forensic investigations and in the context of monitorships and independent examinerships of different US authorities.

Guenter Degitz made key contributions to the development of new digital investigation tools and methods. Such tools and methods had later been replicated and customised for other investigations around the globe and are used to analyse activities or complex networks abused for bribery, tax evasion, money laundering, or sanctions circumventions.

Prior to joining AlixPartners, Guenter Degitz was a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal, a partner with KPMG, and a director with The Boston Consulting Group. He has a master’s degree in informatics from the University of Karlsruhe.