Tax law is one of our firm’s main areas of expertise. We advise our clients in all matters of national, international and European tax law.

In corporate tax law, our professionals supervise tax audits, file administrative appeals, and represent our clients before tax courts, the Federal Tax Court, the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. We advise companies on investment decisions, cross-border relocations of business seats as well as restructuring projects and develop tax-optimized structures for companies, joint ventures and funds. In cooperation with our colleagues of other departments we also perform tax due diligence reviews for M&A, private equity and venture capital projects, as well as in real estate ventures, and optimise acquisition and project financing.

With regard to the taxation of high net-worth individuals, we help our clients in developing tax-optimized asset structures for large estates, working together with the respective family offices and involved investment banks if necessary. Furthermore, we advise on the tax consequences of relocating outside Germany and structure company successions.

Close cooperation with our colleagues specialising in M&A and private equity, banking and finance as well as labour law brings to our clients the benefits of one-stop consultation from a sole source. This ensures that agreements drafted by our professionals are in line with the respective tax advice.

With respect to questions involving foreign jurisdictions resulting from cross-border issues, we call on the services of specialists of distinguished law firms abroad that we have successfully worked together with for many years. We deliberately refrain from maintaining exclusive relationships with foreign law firms in order to be able to chose the cooperation law firm that best suits our clients´needs in each particular case.

We maintain close contacts to key decision-makers in the Federal and State Ministries of Finance, as well as to members of Parliament and university professors. This enables us to track developments in tax legislation early on and voice our clients’ interests.