Speakers
Our experts on tax issues.
Benjamin Angel
Director, EU Commission, BrusselsBenjamin Angel currently serves as the Director for direct taxation, tax coordination, economic analysis, and evaluation at the European Commission's Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD). He has also held roles as the Director for indirect taxation, Treasury and Financial operations, and the economies of the Member States in the Directorate General for economic and financial affairs (ECFIN). Benjamin Angel holds a PhD in law, an MBA in finance, a master's in public administration focused on economics, and a master's in political science.
Prof. Dr. Heribert M. Anzinger
University Professor, University of UlmProf. Dr. iur. Heribert M. Anzinger is Professor of Business and Tax Law at the University of Ulm. He completed his first and second state examinations in law in Bayreuth and Munich, is a business lawyer (University of Bayreuth), holds a doctorate and was a junior professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research focuses on German, European and international corporate, financial and tax law with references to civil, accounting, corporate and capital market law as well as the digitalization of law.
Annabelle Bailleul-Mirabaud
CMS Francis Lefebvre, Avocat Associé Fiscalité Internationale / International Tax Partner
Annabelle joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2003 after several months with CMS
Bureau Francis Lefebvre, New York.
She specializes in international taxation with a focus on transfer pricing, cross border
restructuring / M&A and international compensation of executives (stock-options,
free shares, impatriates and expatriates).
She is a former lecturer in international taxation matters for post graduates at
Panthéon Sorbonne University (Paris I).
She graduated from HEC (the leading French Business School) in 2001 and holds a
postgraduate degree in management (University L Bocconi, Milano) as well as a
postgraduate degree in corporate and tax law (Paris XI - Sceaux, 2001).
She is the author of several articles published, inter alia, in Tax Notes International.
She is fluent in English and has a good practice of Italian and Spanish.
Philip Baker
King's Counsel, Field Court Tax ChambersPhilip Baker KC is a practicing barrister and King's Counsel with chambers in Field Court, Gray's Inn. He is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University Law School and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He specializes in international aspects of taxation, covering both corporate and private client matters. He has advised and represented several governments on tax matters and has appeared as an expert witness in cases around the world. He has a particular interest in taxation and the European Convention on Human Rights. He is the author of a book on double taxation treaties and editor of the International Tax Law Reports. He was one of the general rapporteurs on the practical protection of taxpayers' rights for the International Fiscal Association Congress in Basel in 2015 and is one of the directors of the Observatory for the Protection of Taxpayers' Rights.
Ákos Baráti
Partner, Jalsovszky
"As a partner with 15 years of experience, I am heading the direct tax advisory, HNWI and capital markets service lines of Jalsovszky, a market leading tax and legal advisor in Hungary, Budapest.
Over the last one and a half decade I have been involved in major domestic and international group restructurings and advised many high net worth individuals / families."
Paolo Valerio Barbantini
Group Head of Tax, Fincantieri Group
Fabian Baumer
Vice Director / Head of the Tax Policy Division, Federal Tax Administration, BernFabian Baumer is Vice Director and member of the Executive Board of the Federal Tax Administration in Bern. He is Head of the Tax Policy Division. Previously, he worked for an international law firm in Zurich and Washington, D.C., and headed the legal department of a cantonal tax administration. Fabian Baumer is a guest lecturer at the Universities of Lausanne and St. Gallen.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Benz
Partner, Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, CologneProf. Dr. Sebastian Benz is a lawyer and tax law specialist at Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB in Cologne. He is also an honorary professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and specializes in corporate tax law and tax transaction structuring. He has written numerous articles on tax law.
Prof. Dr. Mathias Birnbaum
Partner, Mazars GmbH & Co. KG, DüsseldorfDr. Mathias Birnbaum is an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig and a partner in the International Tax department at Mazars in Düsseldorf. He advises clients from Germany and abroad, in particular in the areas of international tax structuring, outbound/inbound investments, permanent establishments, reorganizations, acquisitions and financial litigation.
Dr. Gottfried Breuninger
Partner, Allen & Overy LLP, MunichDr. Gottfried E. Breuninger is head of the German tax practice and Chair of Global Tax. He is one of the leading German tax law experts. In addition to advising on corporate tax law, his focus is on advising and representing companies in tax audits and investigations of complex tax transactions. This also includes the (judicial) representation of companies in tax disputes at the interface between tax law and criminal law.
Manuel de los Santos
Head of Transfer Pricing Unit, OECDManuel de los Santos heads the Transfer Pricing Unit at the OECD. Manuel de los Santos joined the OECD in 2016 and has since contributed to the OECD's major transfer pricing projects, including the publication of Chapter X of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines or the recent work on Amount B. Before joining the OECD, Manuel de los Santos worked for the European Commission and the Spanish Tax Administration, mainly in the area of international taxation and transfer pricing. Manuel holds a Master's degree in Economics.
Dr. Jan de Weerth
Director, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am MainDr. Jan de Weerth (lawyer/specialist lawyer for tax law/tax consultant) has worked in the tax department of Deutsche Bank for over 25 years, focusing on various areas. He has also been head of the Tax Law Institute at the German Lawyers' Institute (DAI) for several years. He is also a speaker at tax conferences in Germany and abroad and the author of numerous publications, in particular on VAT law, international tax law and EU tax law.
Thomas Dierichs
Head of Taxes, Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG, NurembergThomas Dierichs (born 1963), Dipl.-Kfm., tax consultant, has been head of the tax department of the Diehl Group in Nuremberg, a family-run technology company, since fall 2006. Prior to this, he was a partner at Rödl & Partner after completing his studies in Nuremberg. He is a member of the board of the BDI tax committee and chairman of the working group on tax issues for partnerships. He is also a member of the tax committee of the DIHK and the executive committee of the Bavarian IFA.
Deirdre Donaghy
Head of Business Tax, Department of Finance
Deirdre Donaghy is the Head of Business Tax in Ireland's Department of Finance. She has responsibility for advising on and implementing changes to corporation tax policy, including business tax incentives. She has overseen Ireland's transposition of the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives and Minimum Tax Directive. Prior to joining the Department, Deirdre worked in tax practice for over 10 years.
Prof. Dr. Christian Dorenkamp
Senior Vice President Tax, Deutsche Telekom AG, BonnChristian Dorenkamp heads the Group Tax department at Deutsche Telekom. He studied economics and law in Cologne. He chairs the BITKOM tax working group and is a lecturer in international tax law at the University of Cologne.
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Drüen
University Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, MunichProfessor Dr. Klaus-Dieter Drüen was born in Moers (Lower Rhine) in 1969. After graduating from high school, he completed his vocational training in the financial administration of North Rhine-Westphalia and then studied economics and law. After completing his doctorate and habilitation at the Ruhr University Bochum, he took over the Chair of Corporate Tax Law at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2007. Since 2015, he has held the Chair of German, European and International Tax Law and Public Law at the LMU Munich.
Dr. Astrid Eiling
Managing Partner, Lüdicke & Kollegen Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, DüsseldorfDr. Astrid Eiling co-founded Lüdicke & Kollegen Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH after working for several years in a major international law firm. In particular, she advises wealthy private individuals as well as entrepreneurs and companies on questions of (inheritance) tax structure planning. She is a lecturer at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Prof. Dr. Michael Fischer
Professor, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen/NurembergFrom 1993 to 1996, I completed my doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. I then worked from 1994 to 2000 as a temporary academic advisor to Prof. Dr. Georg Crezelius, before completing my habilitation in 2000 with the publication "Die Unentgeltlichkeit im Zivilrecht" ("Gratuitousness in Civil Law") and obtaining a teaching license for civil law, tax law and commercial and corporate law.
Prof. Dr. Ulf Freytag
Fresenius SE, Senior Vice PresidentSenior Vice President Tax, Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, Bad Homburg. Ulf Freytag has headed the tax function of the Fresenius Group since 2012. He is an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig and a tax consultant.
Prof. Dr. Dr. H.c. Clemens Fuest
President, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e.V.
Prof. Dr. Dr. H.c. Clemens Fuest, President of the ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Managing Director of CESifo GmbH, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy and European integration. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Market Economy Foundation (Kronberger Kreis) and the Family Business Foundation.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Haarmann
Lawyer, auditor, tax advisor HAARMANN Law, Tax & Arbitration
Wilhelm Haarmann is a lawyer, tax advisor and auditor with many years of experience in national and international tax, corporate and transaction law and in arbitration as well as on the supervisory board or board of directors of companies in various sectors, of different sizes and of different types (domestic/foreign, family-owned or broadly diversified listed companies). He continues to act as an active consultant in the fields of his special knowledge and experience. He is a "Trusted Advisor" for numerous companies and entrepreneurs.
Prof. Dr. Florian Haase
Rödl & Partner, PartnerProf. Dr. Florian Haase, M.I.Tax, is a German lawyer, tax lawyer and tax consultant. He is a partner in the international law, tax and auditing firm Rödl & Partner. There he heads both the International Tax Practice and the Tax Knowledge Management Team of Rödl & Partner Germany. He is also responsible for the tax department at the Hamburg office. In addition to his work at the firm, he is a professor of tax law at the IU International University.
Dr. Carsten Heinz
Tax advisor/partner, Noerr PartGmbB, MunichDr. Carsten Heinz is co-head of Noerr's Tax & Private Clients practice group. His practice focuses on transaction tax law, advising on national and cross-border group reorganizations as well as special tax issues for family offices and family businesses. He is a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the FORUM Transactions in Tax Law.
André Hengst
Tax Technology Leader, EYAndré Hengst heads the high-performance Indirect Tax team. He works closely with EY experts in Europe and worldwide.
His main areas of activity include the implementation of SAP-integrated functionality for the management of transactional taxes. Solutions for continuous monitoring as part of tax control systems and tax reporting can also be found there
Dr. Rer. Pol. Yves Hervé
Senior Managing Director, Nera Economic Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt am MainDr. Yves Hervé is Head of Transfer Pricing at NERA Economic Consulting in Germany. He was previously an accounting partner at KPMG and PWC. He mainly advises international groups on international tax disputes and on planning and structuring issues relating to intangible assets. He publishes extensively nationally and internationally on hot transfer pricing topics, in particular with a focus on intangibles, DEMPE contributions and profit splits.
Prof. Dr. Johanna Hey
Director of the Institute for Tax Law, University of Cologne
Johanna Hey has been Director of the Institute for Tax Law at the University of Cologne since 2006. She has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance since 2006 and has been Chairwoman of the Berliner Steuergespräche e.V. and Chairwoman of the Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft since 2023. She is also the editor in charge of the Herrmann/Heuer/Raupach commentary on the EStG/KStG and managing editor of the journal Steuer und Wirtschaft.
Prof. Dr. Daniela Hohenwarter-Mayr
University Professor University of Vienna Institute of Business Law
Daniela Hohenwarter-Mayr has been Professor of Financial Law since 2020 and Head of the Institute of Business Law at the University of Vienna since 2024. There she also heads the LL.M. course "Tax Law and Accounting". Her publications and research focus on international and European corporate tax law.
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hinny
Partner, Lenz & StaehlinProf. Dr. iur., lawyer and certified tax expert, has been a partner at Lenz & Staehelin Attorneys at Law in Zurich since 2007 and is a full professor of tax law at the University of Fribourg i.Ü.
Franz Hruschka
Senior Government Director, Munich Tax OfficeSenior Government Director Franz Hruschka has headed the tax audit department at the Munich Tax Office since 2010. He is the author and editor of various works on international tax law and corporate tax law as well as co-author of a DTA commentary. He is also a regular speaker on these topics in Germany and abroad. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Bavarian IFA, scientific editor of the specialist journal DStR and a permanent contributor to the specialist journal IStR.
Prof. Dr. Monika Jachmann-Michel
Presiding Judge at the Federal Fiscal Court, Federal Fiscal Court, MunichAfter starting her career at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, habilitation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg (1996, venia legendi for constitutional and administrative law, tax law and philosophy of law), followed by professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg and Jena, Director of the Seminar for Finance and Tax Law at the University of Hamburg; since 2005 Judge at the Federal Fiscal Court and since 2006 Honorary Professor at the LMU Munich; since April 2016 Chair of the VIII Senate responsible for capital assets. Senate responsible for capital assets. (Co-)editor of and contributor to several tax law journals/works.
Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, honorary doctorate
Advocate General at the Court of Justice
Karlheinz Konrad
Ministerialrat, Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs, MunichMr. Konrad studied law in Munich and Oxford. He has worked at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs since 2001. At the same time, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg since 2010.
Dr. Kaido Künnapas
Sorainen Law Firm / TalTech Law School, Partner at Sorainen Law Firm, senior lecturer at TalTKaido is a tax partner and regional co-head of the tax department at Sorainen Law Firm. He is also a senior lecturer in tax law at TalTech Law School and a guest lecturer in tax law at the University of Tartu. As a board member of IFA Estonia, Kaido is responsible for organizing discussion events on tax topics attended by Estonian tax advisors, judges, government officials and other professionals.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Lamprecht
Goethe University, Frankfurt am MainBorn in Berlin in 1970, he studied law and economics in Bayreuth and law in Freiburg im Breisgau. After passing his first state examination in law in 1995, he completed his legal clerkship at Freiburg Regional Court. He obtained his doctorate in 2000 and habilitated in 2010 under Prof. Dr. Uwe Blaurock at the University of Freiburg. Following a management position at the Senate Department for Finance, Berlin, he has held a university professorship for tax law and civil law at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2016, focusing his research on partnership law and German and international tax law.
Dr. Alexander Linn
Partner, Deloitte, MunichDr. Alexander Linn is Business Tax/International Tax Partner at Deloitte with a focus on international tax law, treaty law, European law and Pillar 2. He heads Deloitte's German Tax Technical Team, is editor of IStR, member of the executive committee of the Bavarian section of IfA as well as member of the tax committee and chairman of the working group on foreign tax law of IDW.
Sławomir Łuczak
Partner, attorney-at-law, Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak
His expertise covers tax, customs and foreign exchange law. Has extensive experience in international tax law. Represents clients in tax and customs cases before the authorities, and in proceedings before administrative courts. Advises on tax matters in restructuring and consolidation projects. A member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), and the Association Europénne d'Etudes Juridiques et Fiscales (AEEJF). He is involved in the work of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) in Tax Law Commission.
Prof. Guglielmo Maisto
Partner Founder, Maisto E AssociatiGuglielmo Maisto founded the law firm Maisto e Associati in 1991 and is Professor of International and Comparative Tax Law at the Università Cattolica di Piacenza. He is Global President of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Practice Council of the International Tax Program of New York University (NYU) Law and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. As a representative of the Italian Confederation of Industry (Confindustria), he participates in the Business Industry Advisory Committee of the OECD in Paris. He has also acted as an advisor to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and was a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum. In 2023, he was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance to the Technical Committee for the implementation of the Italian tax reform. He is also one of the independent experts considered as members of the Advisory Commission under the EU Directive on tax dispute resolution mechanisms in the European Union. He is a member of several legal associations and the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax law journals. He is also a regular speaker at various annual tax conferences.
Dr. Markus Märtens
Judge at the Federal Fiscal Court, Federal Fiscal Court
Dr. Markus Märtens has been a judge in the First Senate of the Federal Fiscal Court, which is responsible for corporate and international tax law, among other things, since August 2006. Prior to this, he worked as a lawyer and then (since 1996) in various functions in the civil justice system, from 1998 to 2001 as a research assistant at the Federal Court of Justice. He is the author of Gosch's commentary on the KStG, among others.
Dr. Markus Märtens
Judge at the Federal Fiscal Court, Federal Fiscal Court, MunichDr. Markus Märtens has been a judge in the First Senate of the Federal Fiscal Court, which is responsible for corporate and international tax law, among other things, since August 2006. He previously worked as a lawyer and then (since 1996) in various positions in the civil justice system, from 1998 to 2001 as a research assistant at the Federal Court of Justice. He is the author of Gosch's commentary on the KStG, among others.
Aurelio Massimiano
Partner, Maisto e Associati
Aurelio Massimiano was admitted to the Association of Chartered Accountants in 2002. He obtained an LL.M. Degree in International Tax Law at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He joined Maisto e Associati in 2005 after having worked with the International Tax Office of the Italian Revenue Agency. He has become partner since 2014.
He often speaks at tax conferences and lectures on international tax matters for specialization courses at university level and for various other organizations. He is a member of the board of the Italian Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).
His areas of expertise are international taxation and transfer pricing.
Prof. Dr. Gunter Mayr
Head of the Tax Department, Federal Ministry of Finance, ViennaProf. Dr. Gunter Mayr has been Head of the Tax Department (Tax Policy and Tax Law) at the Federal Ministry of Finance/Vienna since 2012 and is a professor at the University of Vienna (Juridicum). He was chairman of the Austrian Tax Reform Commission 2014, editor of the EStG commentary Doralt/Kirchmayr/Mayr/Zorn and the specialist journal "Recht der Wirtschaft - RdW", as well as editor of Doralt/Ruppe, Steuerrecht (Körperschaftsteuer, Umgründungen).
Volker Nickel
Head of Group Tax, DZ BANK AG, Frankfurt am MainVolker Nickel is a tax consultant and heads the Group Tax department at DZ BANK AG. He is also active in various associations and commissions and as a speaker.
Dr. Eva Oertel
Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs, MunichDr. Oertel currently works in the area of international tax law at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs. From 2019 to 2020, she was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin with a focus on international tax policy. Prior to that, she held various positions at Bavarian tax offices, the Bavarian State Tax Office and the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs since joining the Bavarian tax authorities in 2009. She is co-editor of the specialist journal IWB and co-host of the podcast "TaxQuartett". She is also a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg and a member of the German Tax Law Society.
Prof. Dr. Christine Osterloh-Konrad
University Professor, Eberhard Karls University of TübingenChristine Osterloh-Konrad has held the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Tax Law and Philosophy of Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2018. She was previously a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich. She is active in various national and international committees, including as Germany's representative on the Academic Committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors
Helen Pahapill
Tax Policy Adviser, Ministry of Finance, TallinnHelen Pahapill (LLM, Leiden University) works for the Estonian Ministry of Finance as a Tax Policy Adviser. She has held several positions in the Tax Policy Department over the years and is now responsible for Estonian international and EU direct tax policy. She has been an Estonian tax treaty negotiator since 2001. She is also the Estonian delegate to the OECD CFA/IF and Working Party 1 on Tax Conventions and Related Questions as well as the EU High Level Working Party for Tax Questions.
Dr. Achim Pross
Deputy Director, OECD, ParisAchim Pross is Deputy Director within the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA). In this role, he has overall responsibility for a number of key outputs including the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (Common Reporting Standard or CRS), the OECD's work to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalization of the economy, many of the BEPS actions, as well as the work on tax administration and tax certainty and on countering tax crimes and other financial crimes.
Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reimer
Director of the Institute for Financial and Tax Law, University of HeidelbergAfter studying law in Heidelberg, Munich and Speyer, Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reimer passed his state law examinations in 1996/98, obtained his doctorate in 2002 and habilitated at the LMU Munich in 2005. He has been Director of the Institute for Financial and Tax Law at the University of Heidelberg since 2006. Between 2009 and 2013, he was also a judge at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg. His expertise is reflected in numerous publications on German, European and international tax law and the financial constitution.
Bettina Rodenberg
CVP Tax & Trade, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, DüsseldorfBettina Rodenberg heads the tax and customs department of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. She has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer and tax consultant. She is a board member of the Institute for Sustainability, Corporate Law and Reporting (INUR e.V.) and IFA West. She is also a member of the tax committee of the VCI and the BDI.
Dr. Matthias Scheifele
Partner, Hengeler Mueller, MunichDr. Matthias Scheifele is a lawyer and tax advisor. He advises on tax law primarily in M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and financing transactions. He has extensive experience in advising companies on tax law in crisis situations. He also specializes in tax compliance, tax audits and tax litigation.
Heike Schmidt
Head of Tax, UniCredit Bank GmbH, MunichHeike Schmidt is a qualified banker (Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt/M.), lawyer (law studies in Würzburg and Barcelona) and tax consultant. She initially worked for 12 years in consulting firms (KPMG and PwC) in the area of Tax Financial Services before switching to the corporate side in 2012. From 2012 to 2018 she was Head of Tax at Bayerische Landesbank and since 2018 she has been Head of Tax at Unicredit Bank GmbH (Hypovereinsbank).
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Schön
Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public FinanceProf. Dr. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Schön is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the DStJG, Chairman of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and Vice-Chairman of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the IBFD and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.
Matthias Schubert
GSAP, Global Head of TaxMatthias Schubert has been Global Head of Tax at SAP since September 2024. Previously, he was Global Head of Tax at Infineon Technologies since 2015. He began his professional career as a consultant in the areas of international tax law and M&A. He is a lawyer and tax advisor.
Gunther Sennlaub
Head of Division, BZSt (participation in a non-official capacity)
From 2015 initially employed as a consultant in the tax departments of the Federal Central Tax Office in Bonn and since November 2022 Head of Division responsible for relief from German capital gains tax, in particular on the basis of Section 50c EStG.
James Somerville
A&L Goodbody, PartnerJames Somerville is a partner in the tax department of A&L Goodbody LLP in Dublin. He advises on all areas of tax law, with a particular focus on financial services and real estate related tax. This includes structured finance transactions, capital markets issues, investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, group restructurings and real estate acquisition and management structures.
He is admitted as a Solicitor in both Ireland and England and Wales and is also a Chartered Tax Advisor.
He currently chairs TALC, the central body for exchanges between Irish tax advisers and the Irish Revenue Commissioners. He has previously chaired the Irish Law Society's Taxation Committee and the Foreign Lawyers Forum of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association.
He regularly publishes articles in legal and tax law journals and speaks at conferences and seminars on Irish and international tax law.
Markus Taubel
Head of Tax, DekaBank, Frankfurt am MainMarkus Taubel - Dipl.-Kfm., Dipl.-Jur. and StB - has been Head of Tax at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale AöR, Frankfurt am Main, since 2005 and is responsible for all tax matters relating to the companies of the Deka Group. He is also involved in various associations, including since 2018 as Deputy Chairman of the Tax Committee at BSW (Bundesverband für strukturierte Wertpapiere, formerly DDV - Deutscher Derivate Verband) and since 2020 also as Chairman of the Tax Law Commission of VÖB (Bundesverband öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands).
Andreas Trost
Partner, Cuatrecasas Barcelona
Dr. Joost van Helvoirt
Partner, Loyens & Loeff
He focuses on cross-border investments and business activities between Germany and the Netherlands. He advises many Dutch and German (listed) corporates and has a focus on tax incentives for innovation and limitations on interest deduction. Joost also heads the Region Team Germany; from 2006 through 2008 he worked at Loyens & Loeff's Frankfurt office.
Dr. Christoph Wäger
Board of Directors, RiBFH
Christian Wimpissinger
Partner, Binder Grösswang
Christian Wimpissinger is a partner in Binder Grösswang's tax team and has more than 20 years of experience in advising on cross-border acquisitions and restructurings as well as international tax and accounting law.
He began his career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York before joining Binder Grösswang in 2007. He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2006 and his postgraduate degree from NYU in 2001. Christian is admitted to the bar in Austria and New York.
Dr. Daniel Zöller
Partner, RSM Ebner Stolz, StuttgartDr. Daniel Zöller, tax advisor, is a partner at RSM Ebner Stolz in Stuttgart. His practice focuses on advising medium-sized companies with cross-border operations and their shareholders, in particular in the areas of structuring advice, global minimum tax (Pillar II) and support during challenging tax audits. Previously, he worked for several years in the policy department of a Big4 company. He is the author of numerous specialist publications and is a regular speaker at events.