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“Clear answers for complex requirements – our services are interdisciplinary, tailored and reliable.”

Whether you need tax advice, legal support or audit services, our specialists work together seamlessly in one team. You are always our focus. We listen carefully, ask the right questions and shape our advice around your specific situation.

For us, open communication, direct personal contact and tailored advice matter just as much as professional expertise, so that you feel in good hands at every stage.

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Financial and payroll accounting

  • Conducting workflows either fully digitally or in the traditional paper-based style
  • Supporting secure online accounting and payroll systems widely used in Germany (e.g. “DATEV Unternehmen Online”)
  • Providing cost centre accounting and internal cost allocation
  • Delivering management consulting
  • Preparing investment plans, advising on financing and planning budgets
  • Analysing data in preparation for tax audits
  • Advising on and supporting the digital transformation of accounting processes
  • Supporting clients during VAT special audits and on-site payroll tax inspections
  • Assisting clients during social security audits

Tax returns and annual financial statements

  • Preparing corporate and personal tax returns
  • Producing annual financial statements in accordance with national and international standards
  • Representing and advising clients during tax audits
  • Developing tax planning and optimisation strategies
  • Preparing process documentation for accounting and tax procedures 
  • Handling group taxation 
  • Filing tax appeals and pursuing other legal remedies in tax matters 

Estate planning, national and international succession

  • Developing tax‑efficient strategies for business and wealth succession
  • Drafting tax‑optimised wills, inheritance contracts and gift or transfer agreements
  • Safeguarding and administering estates for heirs and groups of heirs, including pursuing and defending claims to minimum statutory entitlements under a will (compulsory shares) and legacies
  • Acting as executor of wills and estates
  • Advising on setting up family foundations, family asset‑holding structures and family companies

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Advising extensively on the sale and acquisition of companies and shareholdings from both a legal and tax perspective
  • Structuring transactions from a legal and tax perspective and guiding clients through the entire sale or purchase process, including auction and bidding procedures
  • Conducting vendor and purchaser due diligence (legal, tax and financial)
  • Drafting and negotiating the full suite of transaction documents, including corporate governance arrangements in cases of roll-over investments and joint ventures, and in connection with M&A transaction insurance (especially W&I insurance)
  • Designing management and employee participation schemes
  • Advising on employment law aspects of business transfers and operational restructurings

Business succession

  • Developing tax‑efficient business succession plans and foundation structures
  • Planning succession arrangements both within the family and with external successors
  • Drafting succession‑focused wills for business owners
  • Finding solutions to issues around compulsory inheritance rights
  • Advising and supporting business heirs and successors
  • Managing employment law aspects of business transfers
  • Calculations of tax-privileged transfers under sections 13a and 13b of the German Inheritance Tax and Gift Tax Act

Tax structuring advice

  • Providing corporate and individual tax planning
  • Optimising legal form and corporate structure
  • Advising start‑ups and new business ventures
  • Handling group and corporate taxation
  • Advising on tax‑efficient corporate restructurings and reorganisations
  • Structuring personal and business assets in a tax‑efficient way
  • Preparing expert opinions on complex tax law questions

Insolvency and restructuring

  • Providing business recovery and restructuring advice
  • Preparing and guiding companies through both standard insolvency proceedings and court‑supervised self‑administration procedures in Germany
  • Contesting liability and clawback claims brought in insolvency proceedings
  • Advising on insolvency‑related criminal law issues
  • Handling company liquidations and winding-up procedures
  • Implementing business restructurings and staffing changes

International tax

  • Providing international tax law advice
  • Advising on VAT, customs duties and excise taxes
  • Planning and optimising cross‑border tax structures (inbound and outbound)
  • Addressing double taxation issues and global minimum taxation rules
  • Advising on the tax aspects of international assignments and expat arrangements
  • Providing support with registering, processing payroll and coordinating employees working abroad
  • Planning, documenting and reviewing transfer prices
  • Reviewing and reporting cross‑border tax arrangements under the EU DAC 6 rules
  • Advising on inbound and outbound relocations, including (where possible) avoiding exit taxation 
  • Optimising the taxation of cross‑border structures and corporate groups

Restructuring and company law

  • Advising on the choice of legal form and the establishment of new entities
  • Drafting and negotiating articles of association and intra‑group contracts
  • Planning and implementing corporate reorganisations and changes of legal form
  • Optimising financing structures
  • Representing clients in shareholder disputes and directors’ and officers’ liability matters

Tenancy

  • Advising on commercial and residential tenancies
  • Drafting and structuring contracts
  • Managing lease terminations, rent adjustments and eviction proceedings
  • Advising on operating and heating cost matters
  • Advising on residential property ownership, leasehold and homeowners’ association law

Employment and social security 

  • Drafting and structuring employment contracts and works agreements
  • Planning personnel changes, including reorganisations and dismissals
  • Advising on managing director service agreements and liability issues
  • Defending clients in employment‑related criminal investigations and court proceedings
  • Advising on social security contributions, subsequent assessments and status determination procedures

Administrative, environmental and energy 

  • Representing clients in objection proceedings and before administrative courts
  • Advising on emissions control, contaminated sites and soil protection
  • Advising on circular economy and waste management 
  • Providing advice on renewable energies

Law enforcement and tax 

  • Handling tax objection proceedings
  • Representing clients before tax courts
  • Advising and defending clients in criminal tax law matters 
  • Preparing voluntary disclosures and corrective tax declarations 
  • Applying for advance rulings from the tax authorities

General civil law

  • Drafting contracts
  • Representing clients in and out of court

Audits of annual and consolidated financial statements

  • Performing statutory and voluntary audits, including group reporting package audits
  • Accounting in accordance with national and international standards
  • Advising on sustainability reporting (CSRD, ESRS)
  • Conducting internal audits, designing risk management systems and performing special audits
  • Preparing expert opinions and certifications required under specific German regulatory regimes (for example, in relation to real estate brokers and developers or packaging and recycling compliance)

Company valuations

  • Performing business valuations for specific transactions and situations using nationally and internationally recognised valuation methods
  • Applying valuation methods such as the income approach under Standard 1 of the German Institute of Auditors (IDW S1), discounted cash flow, multiples and the simplified income approach, among others
  • Preparing integrated business plans
  • Issuing valuation reports compliant with Standard 1 of the German Institute of Auditors as well as short‑form and indicative valuation reports
  • Valuing intangible assets in accordance with Standard 5 of the German Institute of Auditors 
  • Business valuations
  • Preparing fairness opinions in line with Standard 8 of the German Institute of Auditors 
  • Preparing inheritance and gift tax valuations of businesses and assets under the German Valuation Act and the German Inheritance and Gift Tax Act, including use of the simplified income approach and calculations of the proportion of non‑business (administrative) assets
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Our location in Bonn

Graurheindorfer Str. 149a
53117 Bonn

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Our location in Cologne

Aachener Str. 1011,
50858 Köln

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Our location in Rheinbach

Marie-Curie-Str. 22,
53359 Rheinbach

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Our location in Meckenheim

Neuer Markt 12 – 14,
53340 Meckenheim

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Our location in Siegburg

Am Turm 42,
53721 Siegburg

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Our location in Bad Honnef

Hauptstr. 27,
53604 Bad Honnef

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Our location in Euskirchen

Alleestr. 12,
53879 Euskirchen

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Our location in Gemünd

Kurhausstraße 3,
53937 Gemünd/Eifel

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Our location in Füssen

Lechhalde 8,
87629 Füssen

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