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Corporate Criminal Law & Compliance - Dispute Resolution - Tax Law
Martin Seevers is a Partner at ADVANT Beiten's Hamburg office and member of the firm’s tax and dispute resolution practice groups. He specializes in the prevention, management and resolution of tax and other criminal law risks in the financial sector. His key areas of advice are tax controversy and tax & white-collar criminal law. He advises on tax transparency, and combating financial crime (money laun-dering, terrorism financing, sanctions), including related compliance and regulatory issues, as well as the conduct of internal investigations. Martin represents domestic and foreign companies as well as individuals in criminal and administrative fine proceedings before public prosecutors, courts, financial and specialized authorities (e.g. Bafin, FIU).
Martin Seevers studied law at the University of Passau, King's College London and the University of Houston Law Center in the USA (LL.M. in Taxation). He was admitted in Germany as a lawyer in 1999 and as a tax advisor in 2005. He is also qualified as a Certified AML & Anti-Fraud Officer. Before joining ADVANT Beiten in 2024, he led the Tax Controversy practice group at EY Law in EY’s Financial Services organization in Germany and EMEIA for more than ten years.
Publications:
Tax compliance for foreign banks
Martin Seevers, Markus Erb
in: Association of Foreign Banks, 2018
"Panama Law" - a quick throw with weaknesses
Martin Seevers, Dr. Timo Handel
in: DStR 2017, 552
Tax compliance for non-residents - The banking package from a German criminal tax law perspective
Martin Seevers, Dr. Timo Handel
in: BankArchiv (ÖBA), 12/2016, 899
The Hoeneß case: Lessons for German investors with untaxed foreign assets
Martin Seevers, Matthias Fokken
in: NWB 2014, 297
