Tax Law
The Tax Law Practice Group consists of a team of attorneys with additional training in tax matters, for instance as tax consultant or specialist attorney for tax law, and long-standing practical experience in all areas of tax law. They provide legal advice and representation to renowned companies in various industries and of different sizes, either in Germany or abroad, but also to private equity investors, wealthy private persons or non-profit organizations.
Our tax experts provide advice on drafting, designing and implementing mergers and acquisistions transactions and corporate restructurings as well as public private partnership projects, setting up trusts or matters of tax criminal law. The members of the Tax Law Practice Group all possess detailed expertise and experience in neighboring fields of law and therefore a single contact is in a position to provide interdisciplinary services.
The Main Focus of the Practice Group Includes:
- Structuring of corporations and corporate groups, choice of legal form, reorganization, acquisition of companies and financing
- Providing legal advice to private persons, in particular with respect to corporate and property succession and in inheritance tax matters
- Compliance advice and representation in tax criminal law
- Tax Due Diligence
- Representation in company audits, opposition proceedings and legal actions
- Legal advice on structuring issues with respect to ongoing taxation and, in particular, areas of taxation, such as value-added tax and international tax law
- Legal advice and representation in matters of foreign trade law, of customs duties and excise duties
- Representation out of court and in court in tax liability matters.
Areas of practice
- Accessions Tax Law
- Budget and Charges Law
- Compliance
- Compliance at M&A Transactions
- Consumption Tax
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Succession
- Customs Legislation
- Endowments and Foundations
- Foreign Trade & Customs
- Inheritance and Gift Tax Law
- Investment Funds
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Clients
- Private Equity
- Private Succession Planning
- Public Private Partnerships
- Public Utility Law
- Real Estate Transactions
- Renewable Energy
- Reorganisation [of group of companies]
- State Aids
- Stock Corporation Law
- Tax Criminal Law
- Tax law
- Tax Planning for private clients
Members of this practice group
- Dr. Dieter Bohnert (Duesseldorf, Zurich)
- Dr. Stephan Degen, StB, Maître en Droit (Munich)
- Dr. Kai Erhardt (Hamburg)
- Dr. Stefan Jöster, LL.M. (Cologne)
- Jochen Jungbluth (Cologne)
- Gerd Kostrzewa (Duesseldorf, Zurich)
- Dipl. Kfm. Dr. Thorsten Leisbrock (Cologne)
- Wolfram Meven (Duesseldorf)
- Dr. Markus Rheinländer (Duesseldorf)
- Marion Sangen-Emden (Duesseldorf)
- Dr. Marc P. Scheunemann, LL.M. (Duesseldorf, Frankfurt)
- Dr. Jörg Schewe (Hamburg)
- Klaus Weinand-Härer (Frankfurt)
- Karl-Georg Wellmann (Berlin)
