Simon Wörrlein is an associate in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group.

Simon advises clients in the area of corporate governance and compliance. His practice includes advice in the structuring, implementation and assessment of compliance management systems as well as assistance in connection with internal corporate investigations both nationally and internationally.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Simon worked as an in-house lawyer in the global legal department of a DAX^® 40 multinational in the chemical industry in Ludwigshafen, Germany and Dubai, UAE, where he initially advised global and regional business units and functional units in their daily legal matters and later focused on the design and implementation of group-wide compliance measures as well as on the handling of compliance cases in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Simon studied law at the University of Tübingen, Germany, the University of Granada (UGR), Spain, and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, specializing in International Economic Law. He holds a Master of Administrative Sciences (Magister rerum publicarum) from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany.

During his studies and his legal clerkship, Simon worked as a research fellow and trainee for renowned international law firms in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, Germany and Barcelona, Spain, and for the German Corporation for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH) in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Simon speaks German, English, Spanish, French and Italian.