Tax

Our tax team consists of more than 60 professionals throughout Europe, 40 of whom are based in Germany. We advise you on the full range of national and international tax law topics, considering all the tax, legal and accounting aspects equally.

Lights in tunnel tax
Entrepreneurial approach, strong execution capabilities and excellence in tax, legal and accounting matters
Excellent international network
Recommended in the leading legal directories
Our main practice areas include private equity/venture capital, M&A and real estate transactions, fund structuring and fund investments, capital markets and financing transactions, corporate tax law and restructuring as well as family-owned businesses and high-net-worth individuals. We assist you during tax audits and to manage your proceedings in front of the finance courts.

Our services

  • Private equity, venture capital and real estate
  • Tax due diligence (sell-side/buy-side), tax factbooks
  • Transactional structuring advice
  • Legal documentation (tax clauses, purchase price mechanisms, W&Is)
  • Post-acquisition measures (debt-push-down, organisational integration, repatriation of profits and recapitalisation)
  • Management incentives and employee option schemes (national and international)
  • Restructuring advice (including obtaining tax rulings and conferring with finance authorities) 
  • Fund structuring, joint ventures and co-investments
  • Investment platforms for insurance companies, CTAs, family offices and other institutional investors
  • Fund investments (due diligence, side letters, subscription documents and MFNs)
  • Capital markets transactions (IPOs, takeovers, share and bond issues, financing and securitisation)
  • Finance products and investments
  • Integrated advice taking into account supervisory law (German Investment Act, German Investment Regulation, Solvency II) 
  • Optimising and setting up national and international corporate structures and financing (Pillar II, ATAD II, both inbound and outbound)
  • Setting up international joint ventures
  • Corporate financing (classical equity and debt financing, hybrid and structured instruments, factoring)
  • Relocation of functions and IP, transfer pricing
  • VAT optimisation of supply relationships
  • Advising on digital business models
  • Establishing and implementing tax compliance processes (issues relating to permanent establishments, employee secondments and reporting)
  • Tax optimisation of company pension schemes (CTAs, special German pension buy-out companies and outsourcing structures) 
  • Transfer pricing policy planning
  • Transfer pricing risk evaluation
  • Transfer pricing documentation including benchmark studies
  • Transfer pricing defense (i.e. tax audits, APAs, MAPs)
  • Advising on tax audits
  • Representing clients in appeals and proceedings before the finance courts
  • Representing clients in formal settlements with the tax and customs authorities
  • Tax disclosure and voluntary disclosure
  • Criminal tax law
  • Tax compliance management systems and internal investigations
  • Planning corporate and wealth succession for family-owned businesses, private clients and foundations
  • Advising family offices and high-net-worth individuals (e.g., setting up family office vehicles and advising on investments)
  • International mobility and planning of relocations to or from abroad
  • Setting up domestic and foreign structures for wealth succession and safeguarding assets (e.g., through foundations and trusts)
  • Advising non-profit organisations

For further information see Family-owned business & private clients.

 

Selected projects

Our clients are leaders in their fields. With our multidisciplinary team, our close cooperation with other practice groups, our ambition to provide excellent advice and our partnership-based approach, we devise practically feasible individual solutions for complex tax, commercial and regulatory challenges. You are welcome to contact us if you would like us to present some of our relevant reference projects. We would be delighted to hear from you.

The tax practice of the German law firm has made enormous progress over the past few years. This applies not only, but in particular to transaction tax advice – a field in which Noerr is meanwhile among the market leaders.

JUVE Awards Tax, 2023

Noerr’s extraordinarily fast response time to new, tax-related inquiries and the familiarization with new topics deserve special mention.

Legal 500, 2022

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