He primarily advises startup companies in matters of corporate, commercial and financial law. Furthermore, Robert is a lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he is currently completing his Ph.D. thesis on the principle of trust in criminal negligence law.For several years, Robert has worked as a finance and restructuring lawyer in the Frankfurt and London offices of Clifford Chance LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Previously, he trained, inter alia, at the German Federal Ministry of Justice.Robert holds master-level degrees in law (Freie Universität Berlin), philosophy (FernUniversität in Hagen) and financial management (University of London). His academic interests are in contemporary ethics, political philosophy, and behavioural law and economics