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    Tax Law

    Our tax law team develops individual, tax-optimised solutions for all your matters, whether M&A or real estate transactions and financing, company reorganisations, or group restructuring. We advise on asset and company succession, foundation, and non-profit law, and provide support during audits, objection proceedings, and cases before the fiscal courts.

    Focus areas of our work include VAT, company valuations, the design and restructuring of company pension schemes, and international tax law. You’ll receive the support you need from our specialists as part of our accounting and tax compliance activities.

    Many of our tax team members have multiple qualifications, in particular as lawyers, tax advisors, auditors and in business administration. They understand the challenges different clients face: medium-sized businesses, multinational groups, family-owned companies and their shareholders, companies listed on the stock exchange, unlisted stock companies, corporations under public law, publicly-owned companies, foundations, start-ups and venture capital funds, as well as domestic and foreign strategic financial investors, wealthy private individuals, and banks.

    We cooperate closely with the ADVANT Beiten legal experts from other areas of law to develop complete solutions that cover company, real estate, banking and finance, and labour law in addition to tax law. If you are active internationally, you can rely on our close cooperation with the tax teams of our foreign offices, the ADVANT Alliance, and other international correspondence firms.

    At a glance:

    • Audits and valuations
    • Occupational pension schemes
    • Financing
    • Real estate tax law
    • International tax law
    • Group Taxation
    • M&A transactions
    • Employee participation models
    • Succession planning
    • Audits and litigation
    • Reorganisation and restructuring of corporate groups
    • Advising foundations, non-profit law
    • Tax risk management
    • Value-added tax
    • Customs

    Focus

    Audits / Valuations
    • Evaluating tax-relevant assets in M&A transactions
    • Evaluating tax-relevant assets for corporate succession planning
    • Tax accounting law and deferred taxes
    Occupational pensions
    • Designing implementation models for your specific company
    • Optimising/reorganising existing pension schemes
    Financing
    • Tax-optimised structuring of acquisition finance
    • Tax structuring of project finance
    • Providing tax advice on debt finance and securitisation
    • Tax structuring of leasing and factoring
    Real estate tax law
    • Tax-optimised acquisition and finance structures
    • Tax due diligence assessments
    • Structuring contracts, especially the tax provisions
    • Optimising tax savings on property transfers
    • Avoidance of business tax risks
    • Advising in relation to tax declarations, tax returns
    • Financial accounting
    • Ongoing assistance with tax and accounting compliance
    International tax law
    • Advising on cross-border tax law (relocation of functions, exit tax, add-back taxation)
    • Advising on transfer pricing systems
    • Optimising the taxation of permanent establishments
    • Advising on double taxation treaties
    • Providing advice with respect to inbound and outbound investments
    • Advising on settlement or establishment
    M&A transactions
    • Structuring M&A and private equity transactions
    • Structuring leveraged buy-outs (LBOs), management buy-outs (MBOs) and management buy-ins (MBIs)
    • Tax due diligence
    • Structuring the tax aspects of agreements (especially the tax provisions)
    • Post-acquisition reorganisation and restructuring
    Employee participation
    • Designing employee participation programmes
    • Designing stock option plans
    Succession planning
    • Tax-optimised corporate succession
    • Succession planning for private assets
    • Providing tax advice to family offices
    Audits and litigation
    • Providing support during external audits
    • Objection proceedings
    • Management of cases before the fiscal courts, including appeals to the German Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof)
    • Advising on tax offences and providing representation in criminal tax procedures
    Reorganisation / Restructuring of groups
    • Optimising group structures for maximum tax savings
    • Loss utilisation strategies
    • Selecting the best legal form from a tax perspective
    • Corporate transformations (national and cross-border)
    Advising foundations, non-profit law
    • Establishing foundations
    • Providing tax and foundation law advice to foundations on their current business
    • Dissolution of foundations
    • Advising on foreign foundation structures
    Tax risk management
    • Establishing tailored risk control procedures for clients and analysing existing procedures
    • Advising on tax compliance management systems
    • Tax due diligence reviews
    VAT tax
    • Advising foreign companies on restructuring in Germany
    • Assessing cross-border supply and service relationships and optimising them from a tax-savings perspective
    • Advising foreign companies on their tax declaration obligations
    • Advising foreign companies on registration under EU MOSS (Mini One-Stop Shop) procedures
    • Preparing public corporations for the application of § 2b German VAT Act (UStG)
    • Advising on external audits and managing proceedings before fiscal courts
    Customs
    • Advising foreign companies on entry into the EU Internal Market
    • Providing advice on the legal procedures associated with the cross-border movement of goods

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    Professionals

    Frankfurt/Main
    Volker Szpak
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Dr Marion Frotscher
    Rechtsanwältin, Steuerberaterin, M.I.Tax
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Sylvia Jenoh
    Steuerberaterin
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Guido Storck
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M.
    Senior Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Helmut König
    Steuerberater
    Of Counsel
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Mario Riechmann
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Munich
    Dr Michael Hils
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Munich
    Angelika Kapfer
    Rechtsanwältin, Steuerberaterin
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    Hamburg
    Julian Niederlein
    Rechtsanwalt, Certified AML & Anti Fraud Officer
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    Dusseldorf
    Dr Lucas van Randenborgh
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Hamburg
    Dr Georg Tolksdorf
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M. Taxation
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    Berlin
    Benjamin Knorr
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M. Eur., Licensed Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
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    Dusseldorf
    Marcus Mische
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Dusseldorf
    Aniseh Baghi
    Steuerberaterin
    Senior Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Maria Pla Sales
    Steuerfachangestellte, Abogado
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Jens Ledermann
    Steuerberater
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    Dusseldorf
    Brigitte Winkels
    Steuerberaterin
    Senior Associate
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Jens Müller
    Steuerberater
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    Hamburg
    Kirstin Müller-Nedebock
    Steuerberaterin
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    Dusseldorf
    Robin Eberle
    Rechtsanwalt
    Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Markus P. Linnartz
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M., Steuerberater
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Diljinder Singh Walia
    Steuerberater
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Lukas Vienenkötter
    Steuerberater, Certified Advisor in International Tax Law
    Senior Associate
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    Hamburg
    Simon Bauer
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater
    Senior Associate
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    Munich
    Fabian Buker
    Rechtsanwalt, Commercial Law Specialist (Bayreuth University)
    Senior Associate
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    Hamburg
    Martin Seevers
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, LL.M. Tax (USA)
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    Dusseldorf
    Nicole Bauer
    Tax Advisor
    Senior Associate
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    Munich
    Heiko Wunderlich
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law, Licensed Specialist for Law of Succession, Certified Company Succession Consultant (zentUma), Certified Executor (AGT)
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    Dusseldorf
    Christian Schenk
    Steuerberater
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    Dusseldorf
    Jakob Tietmann
    LL.M.
    Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Teresa Werner
    Rechtsanwältin, Steuerberaterin, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Artur Kozinski
    Steuerberater
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    Dusseldorf
    Gamze Dogan
    Rechtsanwältin
    Senior Associate
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    Hamburg
    Maximilian Steffen
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Senior Associate
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Matthias Ohmer
    Steuerberater
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Klaus Zimmermann
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Berlin
    Dr Karl-Dieter Müller
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater
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    Dusseldorf - Hamburg
    Dr Guido Krüger
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Gerrit Ponath
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Law of Succession, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law, Certified Executor (AGT)
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    Dusseldorf
    Julian Krause
    Rechtsanwalt
    Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Thomas Bula
    Steuerberater
    Of Counsel
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    What others say about us

    ADVANT Beiten is listed as "Firm to Watch" in the Tax Law legal area.

    ​​​​​​​(THE LEGAL 500 GERMANY 2024 & THE LEGAL 500 EMEA 2024)

    ADVANT Beiten is listed as "Firm to Watch" in the Tax Law legal area.
    (The Legal 500 Germany 2023 & The Legal 500 EMEA 2023)