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    Benjamin Knorr
    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M. Eur., Licensed Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
    Partner

    Benjamin Knorr

    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M. Eur., Licensed Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
    Partner

    LANGUAGES

    English / German

    Practice Areas

    Corporate/M&A - Tax Law

    Sectors

    Healthcare

    Contacts

    T : +49 30 26471-262

    F : +49 30 26471-246

    Benjamin.Knorr@advant-beiten.com

    Expertise

    Benjamin Knorr is a partner at ADVANT Beiten in Berlin and a member of the Corporate/M&A and Tax practice groups. His area of practice includes corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, reorganisation law and the associated tax law issues. He advises national and international clients of all sizes, from start-ups and medium-sized companies to large international groups. On the sector side, he particularly advises clients from the healthcare sector and the start-up scene. He is also a mentor at a start-up accelerator.

    Benjamin Knorr studied law at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and initially worked in the tax department of an international auditing firm. He joined ADVANT Beiten in 2016 and was appointed partner in 2020. He was admitted as a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law in 2021.

    Awards

    Empfohlener Anwalt
    JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2043/2025
    Empfohlener Anwalt
    JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/2024

    „immer kompetent, zeitnah u. sachlich – insgesamt hervorragende Zusammenarbeit“, Mandant

    Empfohlener Anwalt
    JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023
    Empfohlener Anwalt
    JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2021/2022

    „sehr gut, hohe Kompetenz und gute Ergebnisse“, Mandant

    Publications

    Publications:

    Opposition and Voting in Transformations, in Particular in the Transformation of Legal Form of Cooperatives
    Benjamin Knorr
    in: NZG, 33/2019 p. 1285 et seq.

    Problem Areas with Regard to the Succession of an Executor
    Benjamin Knorr
    in: NJW, 36/2018 p. 2598 et seq.

    Reform of the Stamp Duty Land Tax in the United Kindgdom
    Benjamin Knorr
    in: IWB,  6/2015, p. 207 et seq.

    Current issues of accounting law
    Benjamin Knorr and Daniela Danz
    in: KoR, 9/2014, p. 451 et seq.

    Articles

    Corporate transactions – Why you need to take increased caution in transactions involving medical devices
    Over the past few years, numerous M&A transactions have involved medical products law. Various small and medium-sized companies active in the sector have merged to take advantage of economies of scale and …
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    Notification obligations under foreign trade law – the risks and stumbling blocks for M&A transactions
    The legal due diligence assessment carried out as part of an M&A transaction provides a careful assessment of the legal risks associated with the target and is an indispensable element of every transaction…
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    Update: Extension of the Period of the Retrospective period for Restructuring Measures in the German Reorganization Tax Act (UmwStG)
    We have reported that the law for the Mitigation of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Civil, Insolvency and Criminal Proceedings Law of 27 March 2020 ("COVID-19 Law") extended the commercial law…
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    COVID-19: Are purely virtual general meetings of cooperative societies also permitted?
    The Act to Mitigate the Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in civil, insolvency and criminal procedure law (Federal Law Gazette I 2020, page 569 et seq.) contains considerable facilitating provisions fo…
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    Period of the Retroactive Effect for Restructuring Measures extended – Does this also apply for tax purposes as part of the German Reorganisation Tax Act?
    On 27 March 2020, the law for the Mitigation of the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Civil, Insolvency and Criminal Proceedings Law was announced in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. I 2020, page 569)…
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    Inheritance tax: Tax exemption for business assets at risk?
    The coronavirus has already prompted the legislator to introduce far-reaching aid measures and tax breaks. So far, the inheritance and gift tax law has not been addressed. The wage bill regulation as regar…
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