Veronika Nippe-Johnson, LL.M. joined the firm in 2006 and became a partner in 2010. As an internationally trained attorney Veronika is the expert for international labor law and international administrative legal issues at Schott Law Associates. She has represented staff of international organizations in a full range of employment and personnel matters, and successfully litigated many cases before the organization’s dispute resolution bodies. She also specializes in representing clients that are subject to ethics and/or misconduct investigations by the ethics offices and investigative units of international organizations. In addition, she is qualified to handle a wide range of international and cross-border German-American legal issues, including business and investment law, general contract law as well as international litigation and arbitration. Veronika is also familiar with the French legal system and civil law matters. 

Some of her recent activities have been as:

• Counsel to staff of the international civil service (World Bank Group, IMF, UN organizations) with regard to a wide range of personnel and employment issues (including performance reviews, performance improvement plans, HR non-selection decisions, reassignment, redundancy, decisions by the Pension Plan Administrator and the Workers’ Compensation Review Panel).
• Counsel to the World Bank Staff Association handling assessments and appeals before the Appeals Committee and Administrative Tribunal.
• Advisor to World Bank and IMF staff for allegations of ethics violations and during employment misconduct investigations by the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity and the IMF Ethics Office, including drafting Responses to Notices of Misconduct & Draft Investigative Reports, appealing disciplinary measures based on findings; drafting extensive written submissions responding to investigative findings and attending hearings. Cases have included defending clients from allegations of international fraud and corruption.
• Attorney for contracts and corporate document reviews for international investors in the U.S. and abroad, including assessing disputes and due diligence review for development projects.

Veronika is an attorney at law admitted in the District of Columbia, New York and Germany.  Before joining SLA she gained substantial experience in Germany and in the U.S. with private law firms, with the German Public Prosecutor’s Office, with the German District Court and with German administrative bodies and the German Embassy in Washington D.C. During that period Veronika was also a legal support lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s offices in Frankfurt, Germany, where she provided assistance to partners with issues involving all aspects of German and U.S. corporate and securities law and capital markets transactions, drafted parts of IPO prospectuses, and conducted due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. Veronika holds law degrees from the University of Kiel, Germany, Jean Moulin University of Lyon, France, and she has a Master of Laws in International and Comparative Law from the George Washington University School of Law, which she received with Highest Honors.  She is a native of northern Germany and speaks German, English and French.