Tax & Legal Excellence
Conference
Partner
Tax & Legal Excellence Forum aims to connect partners who belong together, because networks are the basis for innovation and value creation. The aim is to facilitate and sustainably promote interdisciplinary professional exchange between academia, administration, business and consultants.
Partnerships
strategic partner
German Atlantic Society e.V.
The German Atlantic Association is a registered, non-profit organization based in Berlin. It is the German branch of the Atlantic Treaty Association and sees its task as providing information about German security policy and Germany's integration into NATO
Exclusive partner
White & Case LLP
The US-based law firm White & Case is represented worldwide with 45 offices in 31 countries and is one of the leading international law firms. In addition to its long-standing focus on banking and finance law, White & Case has continuously diversified its advice - particularly in the areas of corporate law/M&A, capital markets, antitrust and litigation. The firm thus advises global companies, financial institutions and public institutions on complex and cross-border projects. In Germany, White & Case employs around 250 people, mainly in Frankfurt, supplemented by offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The firm stands for international reach, excellent legal expertise and practice-oriented solutions in all core areas of commercial law.
Funding partner
Freshfields
Freshfields is an international law firm with offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA. The firm advises clients in all major areas of commercial law, including corporate, employment, tax, competition, antitrust and litigation law. In Germany, Freshfields has offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Munich.
NERA
NERA is a leading global consultancy for economic analysis and strategy. For over 60 years, NERA has supported companies, law firms and government institutions in solving complex economic issues. With in-depth expertise in areas such as competition and antitrust law, financial markets, energy & infrastructure and damage assessment, NERA provides sound, scientifically based analyses that serve as the basis for strategic decisions and legal proceedings. The aim is to combine economic excellence with practical added value, giving clients a clear advantage in negotiations, litigation and market strategies.
Rödl & Partner
Rödl & Partner is represented by lawyers, tax advisors, business and IT consultants as well as auditors (a total of 5,260 colleagues) at 107 of its own locations in 50 countries. The company works closely with all its professionals across all business areas. Like no other company, Rödl & Partner provides German companies with consistently comprehensive and personal on-site advice worldwide, combining interdisciplinarity and internationality.
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is one of the leading international commercial law firms and advises clients worldwide at the interface of business, technology and law. With more than 30 offices - including five in Germany - the firm stands for excellent advice in all key areas of commercial law. Its particular strength lies in the strategic support of innovative companies in the technology, life sciences and real estate sectors, as well as in complex M&A transactions and growth financing. Through the combination of international reach and in-depth industry knowledge, Taylor Wessing supports clients in transforming legal challenges into sustainable competitive advantages.
Knowledge partner
Professor Dr Jessica Schmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Jessica Schmidt holds the Chair of Civil Law, German, European and International Corporate and Capital Markets Law, Director of the Research Unit "Companies, Capital Markets & Taxes (CoCapT) and the Research Unit for Family Enterprises at the University of Bayreuth.
Professor Dr. Luzius Cavelti, LL.M. (Columbia Law School)
Luzius Cavelti holds the chair of tax law at the University of Basel. His research focuses on international and Swiss tax law, the digitalization of tax law and tax policy. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Swiss and International Tax Law.
Professor Dr. Moritz Brinkmann
Moritz Brinkmann holds the chair for civil law and German and international insolvency law at the University of Bonn. At the same time, he is director of the Institute for German and International Civil Procedure Law there and a member of the Centre for European Business Law.
Professor Dr. Matthias Jahn
Matthias Jahn holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Commercial Criminal Law and Legal Theory at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and is Head of the Research Center for the Law and Practice of Criminal Defense. His research focuses on the core subjects of criminal law and criminal procedural law as well as white-collar criminal law.
Professor Dr. Katja Langenbucher
Katja Langenbucher holds the Chair of Civil Law, Business Law and Banking Law in the House of Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She also holds an affiliated professorship SciencesPo in Paris.
Stephan Kudert holds the chair of ABWL, in particular Business Taxation and Auditing, at the Faculty of Economics of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). His research focus is, among other things, on international tax law.
Professor Dr. Wolgang Kessler
Wolfgang Kessler , tax advisor, holds the Chair of Business Taxation and is Chairman of the Board of the Center for Business and Law at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg/i.Breisgau. The focus of his academic work lies in the areas of legal forms, group tax law and international tax law.
Professor Dr. Reinhard Bork
Reinhard Bork was Managing Director of the Seminar for Civil Procedure and General Procedural Law at the University of Hamburg from 1990 to 2022. This included the fields of civil law, commercial and corporate law and business law, especially civil procedural law, in particular insolvency and arbitration law.
Professor Dr. Alexander Schopper
Alexander Schopper holds the chair for corporate law and is head of the Institute for Corporate and Tax Law at the University of Innsbruck. His current research projects focus on stock corporation law, equity compensation law, leasing and contract for work and services law.
Professor Dr. Martin Henssler
Martin Henssler has been Executive Director of the Institute for Lawyers' Law, the European Center for Liberal Professions and the Documentation Center for European Lawyers' and Notaries' Law at the University of Cologne since 1991. Between 1998 and 2022, he was also Executive Director of the Institute for Labor and Business Law.
Professor Dr. Carmen Bachmann
Carmen Bachmann holds the Chair of Business Taxation and heads the Institute for Corporate Accounting, Finance and Taxation at the University of Leipzig. Her research focuses in particular on model-theoretical analyses at the interface of corporate finance, tax valuation issues and information technology.
Professor Dr Christoph A. Schaltegger
Christoph A. Schaltegger is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Lucerne. His research interests include financial policy, tax policy, economic policy, political economy and federalism. He also teaches public finance at the University of St. Gallen.
Professor Dr Christoph Watrin
Christoph Watrin is Director at the Institute for Corporate Accounting and Taxation at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. The Institute deals with standards, legal norms and laws in the field of external accounting and tax law. The incentive effects of standards, corporate policy design options with regard to standards and normative alternatives for improving regulation and legislation are examined.
Professor Dr Thomas Riehm
Thomas Riehm holds the Chair of German and European Private Law, Civil Procedure Law and Legal Theory at the University of Passau. He is also the spokesperson for the Institute for Digital Society Law (IRDG) there.
Prof. Dr. Rainer Wernsmann
Rainer Wernsmann holds the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, in particular Finance and Tax Law at the University of Passau.
Professor Dr. Stefan Huber, LL.M. (Cologne/Paris)
Stefan Huber holds the Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, European and International Private and Procedural Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. The focus of his research activities is the treatment of cross-border situations with all their facets as well as the modernisation of classical areas of civil law and civil procedure law.
Professor Dr Ulrich Torggler
Ulrich Torggler holds the chair of corporate law, with special emphasis on the interrelation with general civil law, and he is also chairman of the Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on corporate law, corporate and capital market law.
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