Wayne is in-house counsel to PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany, where his primary focus is on global risk management and regulatory compliance. His main fields of practice are corporate compliance and training (sanctions/export control, anti-corruption, competition law, and insider trading), ethics and the laws of professional responsibility. From 2000 to 2003, Wayne worked in the M&A and Financial Services Practice Groups of the law firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Veltins.

Before joining PwC, Wayne was responsible for the US/UK-German practice at Rotthege Wassermann & Partners in Düsseldorf from 1997 through 1999. Wayne came to Germany in 1996 as a participant in the Foreign Lawyers Program administered by the German Ministry of Justice. He has held positions as an adjunct law faculty member at both the University of Münster and Düsseldorf, where he helped develop the Common Law program. He has also lectured on M&A in Suffolk Law School’s International LL.M. program for practicing lawyers. Presently Wayne is an adjunct law lecturer at the Universität Osnabrück focusing on company law https://youtu.be/1w9bD0a_pME?feature=shared.

Prior to coming to Germany, Wayne worked as a lawyer at the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington, D.C. He also worked as an attorney in the securities litigation group with the Boston law firm of Hale & Dorr before beginning the German Law program in 1996. Wayne holds a law degree from Suffolk Law School in Boston, an LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt, and a doctorate in law from the University of Münster. He is admitted as an attorney in New York and Massachusetts, as well as to the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 1998, Wayne became a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales and was admitted in 1999 as a solicitor in the Republic of Ireland.