Jonathan Rüschendorf advises and represents both individuals and companies in the field of white-collar crime. He also assists with internal investigations and supports his clients with compliance issues.
Jonathan Rüschendorf studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the University of Edinburgh with a focus on business and corporate law. He completed his legal clerkship at the Düsseldorf District Court. At the Ruhr-University Bochum he is doing his doctorate on a topic of business criminal law Prior to joining Wessing & Partner, Jonathan Rüschendorf worked as a research assistant with the same law firm.
Subsequently, he started as a legal assistant in the Investigations department of the Düsseldorf office of a major German law firm. Jonathan Rüschendorf has been working as a lawyer at Wessing & Partner since 2018 and was appointed partner in 2024.
He advises his clients in German and English.
Jonathan Rüschendorf is named as one of the most frequently recommended lawyers in the WirtschaftsWoche Top Lawyers for Compliance 2023, 2024 ranking.
WirtschaftsWoche Top Lawyers 2023, 2024
In addition, Jonathan Rüschendorf is named in the Best Lawyers|Handelsblatt 2023 and 2024 ranking in the “Ones to Watch” section (Lawyers of the Future) for the areas of Corporate Governance & Compliance, Commercial Criminal Law and Criminal Tax Law.
Best Lawyers|Handelsblatt 2023, 2024
Criminal Law Working Group of the German Bar Association
DAV – Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.
Düsseldorfer Anwaltverein e.V.
JDWA – Verein Junger Düsseldorfer Wirtschaftsanwälte
JUST – Forum Junge Strafverteidigerinnen und Strafverteidiger
WisteV – Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V.
wistra 11/2024, S. 456-458
wistra 10/2023, S. 419-421
wistra 8/2022, S. 330-332
wistra 5/2021, S. 192-193
Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Verteidigung in Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafsachen, hrsg. v. Klaus Volk/Stephan Beukelmann, 3. Auflage 2020, S. 600-684
wistra 4/2020, S. 144-146
wistra 3/2019, S. 94-96
wistra 2/2018, S. 75-77
wistra 12/2016, S. 483-485
24. Düsseldorfer Insolvenztage, Deutsche AnwaltAkademie, Düsseldorf, 16.05.2024
Wessing & Partner, Düsseldorf, 18.09.2023
Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei, Münster, 25.08.2022
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