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Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2015 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 2007 – 2015: Weil Gotshal & Manges, Munich office, Frankfurt office 2000 – 2007: Oppenhoff & Rädler, Linklaters, Berlin office, Frankfurt office 1996 – 2000: Lignitz, Berlin
Peter Fabry Attorney Tax advisor Certified tax law attorney Certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA) Specialists area : Tax law Peter Fabry's consulting focus is on national and international tax structuring consulting for larger medium-sized companies, real estate tax law, asset and succession planning for companies and private individuals, and tax defense consulting. As a certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA), his special focus is on the avoidance of criminal tax offences a...
Dr Nico Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. His core areas are national and international tax law, general tax planning and structuring with a focus on private equity and M&A. In addition, he advises national and international private equity houses as well as German carry holders on German tax issues. Nico regularly publishes articles on tax topics in relevant professional media and passes on his expertise as a lecturer at the University of Muenster in the Master’s program i...
Tobias Geerling is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Munich office. His practice focuses on transactional work, advising in particular on tax, cross-border private equity and M&A transactions as well as on international corporate partnership real estate, insolvency and exempt organization tax issues. He has extensive experience handling tax-efficient structuring of M&A transactions, corporate re-organizations, fund structuring and tax-driven derivatives. His experience expands i...
Dr Maximilian Haag, LL.M. is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. He primarily advises on national and international tax law, as well as on business successions and estate planning. His work includes the establishment, reorganization or dissolution of family-owned corporate structures, as well as matrimonial property law and advice on wills. Due to his great passion for international affairs and not least because of his own professional stays in the USA, Canada, and Israel, Maximilian often advis...
Dr Benedikt Hohaus is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. Benedikt works in the areas of private equity, tax law and corporate law. Within these specialist areas, he focuses on advising private equity funds and managers on all legal and tax aspects of management investments, incentives for managers and employees and management buy-out / management buy-in. Domestic and international ranking publications, including JUVE, Chambers, The Legal500 and IFLR, regularly distinguish him as one of the lead...
Rupert Klar has been working in HEUSSEN's Munich office since 2012. He focuses his services on concept planning for and consulting on open- and closed-end investment funds. In addition to drafting sales, preliminary and stock exchange prospectuses, he offers his services for real estate transactions - both national and international. Rupert Klar furthermore focuses on the arrangement of national and international M&A deals for tax purposes and on corporate structuring. In addition, he is ...
Dr. Barbara Koch-Schulte is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. She specialises in tax and legal advice on management participation (MBI/MBO), including ESOPs, phantom shares and other incentive programs. A main focus is the accompaniment of management participation in the taxation process, in tax audits and other disputes with the tax authorities. Apart from her native German, she speaks fluent English and French. Barbara is listed in independent rankings as a leading expert in her practice are...
CV Since 2011 shareholder and managing director at LW TAX Lemaitre Wittkowski GmbH, Munich 2005-2010 equity partner at RP Richter, Munich, merged now with BakerTilly, head of international tax, M&A tax 2002-2004 senior associate at P+P Pöllath + Partners, Munich 1998-2002 associate at Peters Schönberger, Munich 1998 University of Cologne (MBA, taxation, audit, tax law)
Ralph Obser is a founding partner of BIRKENMAIER & OBSER Rechtsanwälte , a boutique law firm in Munich (Germany) . He specializes in corporate law, commercial law and tax law with a focus on project work such as M&A, PE and VC transactions, reorganizations and business successions. Ralph provides advice not only in domestic but also in cross-border scenarios. Ralph advises businesses, entrepreneurs and private clients with regard to their economic and legal decisions. If necessar...
Professor Dr Reinhard Pöllath is a founding partner of POELLATH (former P+P Pöllath + Partners). Reinhard advises private and institutional owners in corporate, asset and family matters, also as chairman and member of fully codetermined or other supervisory boards and committees, foundations in all legal forms, trusts, funds, as executor, guardian, in arbitration and mediation proceedings and in hundreds of transactions. Since 1980, he has worked for private equity and family office...
Since 2021: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, salary partner 2018 – 2021: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, tax consultant 2016 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, tax consultant 2012 – 2016: International law firm, Munich office, paralegal tax 2007 – 2012: University of Augsburg, diploma degree program for law and business administration studies
Dr Stephan Viskorf is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. Together with Christoph Philipp , Stephan is head of the Munich Private Clients team. The team specializes in providing holistic advice to high-net-worth individuals, especially family entrepreneurs and their mostly complex international asset structures. “Our clients can expect advice that comprehensively considers not only all legal aspects but - as our experience shows - also all personal aspects that family life itself, and the ...
Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2007 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 2005 – 2007: International law firm, Munich office, managing associate 2002 – 2005: International law firm, Munich office, tax consultant 1997 – 2002: Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, research assistant
Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2003 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 1992 – 2002: Tax consultant 1990 – 1991: Larger accounting firm, tax consultant and auditor 1985 – 1989: Rädler, Raupach & Partner, Munich, auditing department with tax consulting activities
Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, lawyer 2017 – 2018: Streck Mack Schwedhelm, München, lawyer 2016 – 2017: Flick Gocke Schaumburg, München, lawyer 2011 – 2015: CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, lawyer 2009 – 2011: Higher Regional Court of Koblenz, legal clerkship including placements at Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart 2004 – 2009: University Trier, law studies
Tax Law Definition
Tax lawyers deal with all kinds of tax-related matters, mainly with transactions and other legal issues from a tax law perspective, e.g. mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, or fiscal disputes with the tax authorities in front of the fiscal courts. As the German tax system has become increasingly complex due to a steady growth in practical tax structuring, triggering frequent legislative amendments on a national level, many tax lawyers have over the years specialized in certain tax areas or industry sectors. This specialization normally pays off for the tax lawyer and for the client, as tax law is a rather error-prone area of the law where even minor details or adjustments to a structure can have a significant financial effect. At the same time it is important for a good tax lawyer to develop and maintain thorough basic knowledge in the various areas of national and international tax law to ensure that possible reciprocal tax effects that any given advice might have on the client have been considered.
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