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Malte is a tax expert and primarily advises on transactions - where he works for VC and PE funds as well as for corporate groups and family businesses. In addition, Malte frequently advises management on re-investments in connection with PE transactions. Also, Malte restructures companies from a tax point of view, often in international contexts.In this year's The Best Lawyers® in Germany edition the US publishing house in cooperation with business daily Handelsblatt® commend Malte as...
As a lawyer and tax advisor Mr Blusz mainly provides advice on tax-related corporate and asset succession. He assists family-run companies and wealthy individuals with succession planning and with structuring their private and corporate assets in the most tax effective way possible. His particular interest is cross-border issues.
Ronald Buge is a partner at POELLATH in the private funds team in Berlin. Ronald advises fund managers on legal and tax matters relating to the structuring of alternative investment funds. Further, he advises institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds as well as family offices in connection with investments in such funds. He focuses on German and international tax law, including investment tax law, procedural law and tax compliance issues (FATCA, CRS, DAC 6). He is ...
Dr Peter Bujotzek is a partner at POELLATH in Frankfurt. He specializes in private funds, in particular the structuring of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, managed accounts, investment law and all related tax matters, including investment tax law, regulatory law and secondary transactions. His clients include many well-known German and international fund managers and investors. Peter offers creative, state-of-the-art and full-service expertise and independent jud...
Thomas Bula is Of Counsel at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Dusseldorf office and member of the Tax practice group. His area of activity includes tax and business consulting for companies of different legal forms, sizes and industries. He advises his national and international clients in particular on tax structures, transformations, transactions and restructurings.
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
Born in 1934 Legal studies at the Universities of Marburg, Münster and Berlin First Exam ("1. Staatsexamen") in 1957 Doctor of both Laws (Dr. jur. ut.) 1960 Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") in at the Detmold and Berlin District Courts Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 1962 First bar admission in 1962 Managing director of an industrial company, 1964 - 1973 Renewed bar admission in 1973 Certified Specialized Attorney in Tax Law since 1973
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 Hardy Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Berlin. He advises on domestic and international tax law, corporate tax law, tax planning and tax structuring, refinancing and charity tax law. He is also well-known for his wide-ranging expertise in advising on cross-border structures and transactions, as well as for his tax advice on real estate transactions. Hardy regularly speaks and publishes on various tax law matters, inter alia as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam (Master Program Corp...
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...
Ralph Hummel studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. During his legal training at the regional court in Frankfurt he was also working for a CPA. He was admitted to Bar in 1985. During his following employment with the tax department of Arthur Andersen & Co. GmbH, he was admitted as certified tax advisor in 1990 and promoted tax manager in 1992. Prior to joining the Frankfurt office of avocado rechtsanwälte as a Partner in 2009, he had been with the US law firm of F...
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 ...
Jens Kleinert practises as a lawyer and a certified tax lawyer, advising clients on all issues dealing with national and international tax law, in particular on the development of tax-optimised structures and the implementation thereof. This also comprises the development and application of capital market products, especially by using investment funds. He has broad experience in advising on complex restructurings and cross-border transactions. His focus is particularly on business succession ...
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...
Andreas advises private clients and family offices as well as medium-sized and large companies on all ongoing and structural tax matters. As an expert in tax matters related to venture capital and private equity (ongoing and structure-planning issues), he is especially advising funds, investors (corporations and individuals) and selected startups.Andreas’ clients value his reliability and his vast experience in dealing with the tax authorities. With his solution-oriented approach, he al...
Jens advises management teams, sponsors and investors. He supports them in all matters related to the structuring, set-up and maintenance of various types of collective investment schemes that invest in venture capital, private equity, real estate and other asset classes. Furthermore, he advises investors on investments in open-ended and closed-end funds. He is a specialist in tax structuring, regulatory advice, preparation of the fund documentation and negotiations between investors and init...
Dr Guido Krüger is Partner at the offices of BEITEN BURKHARDT in Dusseldorf and Hamburg and member of the Tax practice group. His area of activity comprises company restructuring, mergers and acquisitions as well as consulting on trusts, corporate succession and tax law. He advises his national and international clients on balance sheet restructuring, corporate and tax issues and on merger and acquisition processes.
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)
Dr Martin Liebernickel is a partner at POELLATH. He heads the department of succession and wealth planning at the Frankfurt office and advises well-known German family businesses and their shareholders, as well as high-net-worth individuals. He is a seasoned practitioner and advises on domestic and international tax law, family-owned companies and family offices, asset structuring, cross-border estate structuring, including trusts, asset and company succession, voluntary self disclosures, inh...
Dr Rudolf Mikus is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt a. M. office and member of the Tax practice group. His area of expertise comprises enterprise tax law, reorganisation tax law, investment tax law as well as international tax law. He particularly advises his national and international clients on the structuring of mergers and acquisitions, transnational fiscal facts, funds and financial products. Dr Rudolf Mikus studied law at the Universities of Freiburg, Vancouver and Mainz (Dr. jur...
Jens Müller is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT in Frankfurt am Main and member of the Tax practice group with a material focus on tax, financial compliance and real estate in this competence area. He advises his national and international clients on institutional real estate investments, in this context rendering particular advice on tax matters, financial accounting and the preparation of annual financial statements.
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...
Ulrich advises DAX-listed corporate groups, large and small family-owned companies of different legal forms as well as private clients on matters of German and international tax law. His main areas of expertise include corporate tax law, cross-border tax structuring, balance-sheet tax law as well as corporate acquisitions. In addition, he has a proven track record regarding the taxation of partnerships, one of the main areas in which YPOG provides tax advice.Ulrich is a member of the Scientif...
Dr. Andreas Richter, LL.M. , is a partner and a former member of the management board at POELLATH. He has outstanding experience in business and wealth succession, estate planning, legal and tax structuring of private wealth and family offices, corporate governance for family-owned businesses, expatriation taxation and charities, as well as in trust and foundation law. Some of Germany’s leading family offices, family businesses and foundations, as well as their peers abroad, form the cl...
Stefan has more than 20 years of experience in international tax law, tax structuring advice and M&A transactions. His focus lies on advising DLT projects and token-based business models. In addition, Stefan advises on financing rounds of start-ups, company acquisitions and sales, and structuring issues in international contexts. Stefan studied business management and engineering in Hamburg. He started his career at Deloitte in Berlin and subsequently worked - with a focus on medium-sized...
Dr Adalbert Rödding advises national and international companies on all matters of taxation, particularly for M&A transactions, and on issues of restructuring, leveraged buy-outs, private equity transactions, real estate transactions and the acquisition and sale of distressed assets. He also assists companies in company audits and taxation disputes.
Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law), Defense Lawyer and Founder of Rübenstahl Rechtsanwälte in Frankfurt, Germany. Studied Law in Mainz and Rome (Italy), doctorate from the University in Freiburg i.Br. He advises and represents companies and individuals in the areas of white collar crimes, criminal law, criminal tax law and tax compliance for over fifteen years. He is also a lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i.Br., Co-Editor of the journal „wistra“, advisor o...
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
Helder’s practice is focused on the formation and operation of private equity firms. His track record of several dozen fund formation projects ranges from small early-stage venture capital firms to large buyout funds. Helder also regularly provides advice to selected institutional and private investors with regard to their limited-partner investments in private-equity and venture capital funds. Helder frequently publishes on matters of international taxation and on fund-related issues. ...
Prof. Dr. Jens Schönfeld is a Partner with Flick Gocke Schaumburg - one of the largest and leading German law firms with a strong focus on tax law. Jens joined the firm in 2004 after several years in the management of a family-owned business. He works as a certified tax lawyer with a centre of interest in international taxation. His clients are German and international stock listed companies as well as leading family-owned businesses and well-known high networth individuals. Jens is pers...
Dr. Jens Steinmüller is a partner in the private funds team at POELLATH in Berlin and has many years of experience in advising institutional investors and fund managers. He offers comprehensive civil, regulatory and tax law advice in connection with investment funds, as well as advice on tailor-made investment solutions and supervision of fund investments. His focus is on the special regulatory and tax requirements of individual investor groups (insurance companies, pension funds, pensio...
Thomas advises domestic and foreign private investors, funds and companies on domestic and international tax issues, on corporate acquisitions, reorganizations and taxation of real property investments as well as debt restructuring and refinancing. He specializes in M&A transactions, pre-/post-closing (re-)structuring, and reorganizations of corporations/partnerships. Thomas also assists in tax audits and represents his clients in tax disputes before both local tax courts and the Federal ...
Dr. Oliver Trautmann advises multinational companies in corporate tax law. His main focus is on corporate reorganizations, international and cross-border tax law and tax support in M&A transactions. He additionally advises on tax audits and provides representation in tax audits and tax litigation. He recently oversaw the outsourcing of the entire German tax department of a globally-listed financial institution and served as in-house manager, adviser and liaison. He also led projects to de...
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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