WINHELLER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Counsel
- German Attorney at Law, LL.M. ( ARU Cambridge ), MBA ( Drake University )
Alexander Berstein works as Of Counsel in the area of international corporate law and compliance and is a member of our firm's U.S. desk. Alex lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family and represents our firm in all U.S.-related matters.
He assists individuals, companies and organizations with corporate law issues in cross-border legal cases, particularly with respect to North and South America as well as immigration and emigration to the United States. In this context, he advises on German and U.S. corporate law and on all issues relating to the opening of branches in North America. Alex is an expert in venture capital issues and is always available to advise and support clients in these matters.
Alex is a German attorney and, prior to joining WINHELLER, worked for an international law firm in Munich and as in-house counsel for a leading German financial services provider. He also brings further valuable experience through his work in several fintechs with a broad international focus, where he was able to support his clients in particular with regulatory challenges in a national and international context, including a focus on cryptocurrency and NFTs.
Alex is a big football fan and an avid chess player. He is married and father of a daughter.
Job Titles:
- Senior Tax Accountant, Specialist Wages and Salary ( IFU / ISM )
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director Eastern Partnerships, Russia and Central Asia
Languages
German, Russian, English
Alexander Romanov is based in Frankfurt/Main and responsible for our business and private clients from the Eastern Partnership countries, Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
He supports our clients in matters concerning banks, supervisory and regulatory authorities as well as banking and financial services. He also advises on national and international providers of export guarantees and export insurance (ECA).
Alexander Romanov has many years of experience in structuring of and advising on cross-border investments and lending transactions as well as complex international banking transactions, stocks and bonds. He advises issuers affected by sanctions, on syndicated loans, infrastructure and industrial equipment purchases, trade finance, and Eurobond issue preparation and placement.
Thanks to his expertise and wide-ranging professional contacts, he is often the link between our specialist lawyers or tax advisors and our clients.
Alexander Romanov is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow State Lomonosov University, where he earned his doctorate on the topic of "International Economics and the Financial and Banking System". He worked intensively on national and international financial programs to overcome infrastructural barriers to economic growth, on financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as on the implementation of energy efficiency programs launched by the development institutes of Germany (KfW) and Italy (CDP).
As an auditor certified in Russia, he worked for financial and credit institutions, participated together with the German KfW and the European Investment Bank (EIB) in the development and implementation of bilateral programs for the funding of medium-sized enterprises, as well as in the establishment of the SME Promotion Fund with the financial participation of the respective national development banks. He contributed to the cooperation between the national development institutions that are members of the Long Term Investors Club (LTIC) and actively participated in the intergovernmental German-Russian and Italian-Russian consultative bodies in the field of economics and finance and banking.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Certified Tax Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
Languages
German, English
Anna Danner is a German Certified Tax Advisor and has been part of the WINHELLER team in Frankfurt/Main since April 2024. She is primarily dedicated to advising foundations and nonprofit organizations on tax law. As an experienced contact in all matters relating to tax and nonprofit law, her areas of activity include
Ongoing tax law advice: Anna Danner supports nonprofit companies and groups in ongoing tax law matters. She covers a broad spectrum, including income tax, VAT, property tax, real estate transfer tax and international matters.
Support with tax audits: She provides expert support for tax audits, guiding her clients through the complex processes and ensuring smooth handling.
Structuring advice: In addition to providing tax advice on reorganization matters, including mergers and partial spin-offs, she provides support for future-proof corporate structures that adapt to legal developments and ensure compliance with nonprofit law.
Tax transaction advice: Anna Danner has extensive experience in transaction advice in the health care and infrastructure sector. She advises on acquisitions and the integration of add-on acquisitions. Her activities include tax due diligence, tax advice on the drafting of transaction documents and the preparation of closing step plans.
Before joining WINHELLER, she worked in financial administration and also spent several years at PwC Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in Frankfurt/Main. She began her academic career with a dual degree in finance. Building on this, she deepened her knowledge with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree with a focus on international tax law.
Outside of work, Anna Danner enjoys spending time with her family and friends. She is a passionate sportswoman and uses exercise as a balance to her everyday working life.
Job Titles:
- Legal and Notary Assistant
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
Benjamin Kirschbaum studied legal sciences at the Free University of Berlin. During a term abroad in Singapore, he studied corporate law within the common law system and commercial law. He completed his practical legal internship at the Supreme Court of Berlin and WINHELLER's Frankfurt/Main office.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
Boris Piekarek studied law at Bayreuth University, Germany. Before joining WINHELLER, he was associated with a Berlin-based firm specializing in tax law, corporate law, and venture capital; and later managed his own law firm. Right after law school, Attorney Piekarek gained his first experiences in international commercial law at a leading international law firm in San Francisco.
Attorney Piekarek is a frequent lecturer on topics related to wealth management - including investment strategies, tax planning and investment vehicles. The target audiences for his lectures and seminars are typically business people from all walks of life, real estate owners and investors, high net worth individuals and in-house counsel and focus on one or more of the following topics:
Legal asset diversification
Private-benefit foundations and family foundations
Family-owned companies and
Real estate investments.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Certified Tax Advisor Christoph Herrmann Advises Medium - Sized Companies and Private Individuals at Our Offic in Aalen
- German Tax Advisor
German Certified Tax Advisor Christoph Herrmann advises medium-sized companies and private individuals at our offic in Aalen.
Christoph Herrmann graduated from the Ulm University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. In February 2022, he passed the exam to become a certified tax advisor.
In his spare time, he plays the piano and is a passionate fitness athlete.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director, Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Banking and Capital Markets Law
Languages
German, English
Dr. Annette Wagemann advises on banking and capital markets law at the Frankfurt/Main office and is specialized in banking supervisory law. The focus of her expertise is on legal advice at the interface of banking and financial services with virtual platforms and blockchain technology.
Her clients include medium-sized companies as well as international listed corporations. She is a lecturer at conferences and training events for supervisory and executive board members as well as managing directors and executives, in particular from the financial sector.
Dr. Annette Wagemann mainly advises on the following topics:
BaFin licenses, market entry, EU passport, branch institutions
Banking and financial services
Crypto assets and blockchain, ICO, crypto custody business
Leasing and factoring
Payment services and e-money
Online marketplaces and trading platforms
Online stores
Legal reporting obligations and money laundering prevention
Social media platforms
Compliance and external compliance officer activities
Planning and implementation of compliance management systems (CMS) including risk management/risk assessment
Corporate governance, directors and officers liability and D&O insurances
Her industry focus is on financial services, retail, e-commerce and real estate.
Before joining WINHELLER, she was a syndicate member and held responsible management positions as General Councel and Chief Compliance Officer in the areas of legal and compliance, among others at the Hornbach Group and MLP Finanzberatung SE (formerly MLP AG). Here she also headed the tax department. Prior to that, she worked as an attorney in tax law at the international law firm Clifford Chance LLP (formerly Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster) in Frankfurt/Main.
Dr. Annette Wagemann studied at the University of Mannheim and at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. She completed her legal clerkship at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. Her doctoral thesis in International Insurance Contract Law was awarded the Research Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of Insurance Science at the University of Mannheim. Dr. Annette Wagemann was admitted to the bar in 1996. She is a certified consultant for crypto assets and taxes (WIRE).
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Counsel
- German Attorney at Law, LL.B., M.Sc., Real Estate Economist
Dr. Florian Timmer works as Of Counsel at our offices in Frankfurt/Main and Karlsruhe. He advises our clients on finance and real estate law. One focus is on legal advice at the interface between real estate law and the real estate industry.
Dr. Florian Timmer studied at the EBS Law and Business School. He completed his legal clerkship at the Wiesbaden District Court. His doctoral thesis in corporate law was awarded magna cum laude. Dr. Florian Timmer was admitted to the bar in 2023. He works full-time as an in-house counsel.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Attorney
- German Attorney at Law
Dr. Isabella Löw is an attorney in our nonprofit team in Frankfurt/Main. She advises and represents nonprofit associations and organizations, nonprofit LLCs and cooperatives as well as foundations. Her clients also include business and professional associations as well as the public sector.
Dr. Isabella Löw has been advising nonprofit organizations for over 20 years on all issues relating to nonprofit law, in particular on the implementation of tax law requirements in accounting and annual financial statements. She supports her clients in all matters relating to articles of association and nonprofit status, particularly in the areas of sport, animal welfare, art and culture and the protection of historical monuments.
In addition, she also advises primarily on cooperations and holding structures of nonprofit organizations, e.g. in the hospital or care sector.
Isabella Löw has been an independent attorney since 2001 and has concentrated on associations, foundations and charitable LLCs since 2004. As a lecturer for the Dr. Endriss tax school, she has conducted over 200 full-day seminars on nonprofit law, among others. She studied at the University of Bayreuth and completed her doctorate at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale. She has been with WINHELLER since 2024.
In her spare time, she writes books, rides horses and renovates old buildings.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Attorney
- Partner, German Attorney at Law
Attorney Elmar Krüsmann specializes in advising nonprofit organizations, foundations and high-net-worth individuals.
Elmar Krüsmann studied law - with a focus on tax law - at the University of Münster. He completed his practical training and his legal internship at the Ministry of Finance of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, among others, as well as at several large law firms in the fields of tax law and asset succession. Prior to joining WINHELLER, he worked for several years with an internationally active German law firm attending to all issues related to tax law. In this capacity, he had already begun focusing on providing advice for nonprofit foundations and private clients.
Elmar Krüsmann enjoys spending his free time with his family.
Commentary on Federal Court of Finance, Decree from 21.10.2015 - XI R 40/13 (Timing of the option exercise for VAT purposes in the case of property acquisitions), Elmar Krüsmann and Michael Winkelhog, ZfIR, 10/2018, p.
Job Titles:
- Head of People, Culture & Development
Languages
German, English, Greek
Emorfia Grillmayer-Di Liberto is responsible for issues related to people, culture and development in our firm and is the contact person for all personnel-related issues.
Her duties include the optimization of personnel processes, personnel management, support and development. For her, positive communication is a fundamental tool for maintaining good working relationships at all levels.
Emorfia Grillmayer-Di Liberto has worked in various large law firms, such as Hogan Lovells and Graf von Westphalen, since 2007 and knows the law firm environment very well.
After graduating from high school, she studied sports science and then completed a dual training program as an office communications assistant and foreign language correspondent. Since 2007, she has worked as a partner assistant in various law firms and successfully completed her bachelor's degree as a personnel officer on the side. In addition, she is trained as a psychological consultant/personal coach.
Her hobbies and passions are her children and yoga.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
Eva Helfenstein studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Before joining WINHELLER, she worked for over ten years in the legal department of a large social welfare organization, most recently as head.
She is married and has a daughter. She enjoys spending her free time with family and friends.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Certified Tax Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
- Tax Advisor
German Certified Tax Advisor Felix Herrmann works at our main office in Frankfurt/Main. He advises national and international commercial clients of various industries, sizes and legal forms as well as private individuals on all tax and business management issues.
Tax advisor Felix Herrmann has over 15 years of professional experience. Before joining WINHELLER, he worked for five years at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. There, together with his team, he fully supported scaling FinTechs, real estate companies, and internationally operating companies.
Felix Herrmann is a trained tax clerk and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Florian Demmler is responsible for the marketing and business development of our law firm. He manages our publications, websites and social media channels. At our main location in Frankfurt am Main, he also accompanies the external communication of all employees and all events.
As chief editor of our blog, Florian Demmler cooperates closely with all attorneys and accountants at WINHELLER. Besides the preparation of our law firm's regular newsletters, his key responsibilities include the maintenance of our homepages www.winheller.com and www.visum-usa.com. Additionally, he provides you with up to date information concerning German and international Business, Banking and Tax Law.
Before his employment at our law firm, Florian Demmler worked at the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the United Nations Association of Germany. At this latter non-governmental organization, he published numerous articles and regularly prepared reports concerning international development and conflict issues. He achieved a Bachelor of Arts in British & American Studies at the University of Chemnitz and the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. His Master of Arts in Political Science was conducted at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Employment Law
Friederike Eck brings over a decade of expertise in employment law to our law firm. With her extensive experience, she offers comprehensive advice and representation in all areas of individual and collective employment law with a focus on the employer side.
Her main areas of advice include
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Certified Specialist
- German Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
- German Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Employment Law
- Law and German Certified Tax Advisor
German Attorney at Law and German Certified Tax Advisor Martina Weisheit brings almost two decades of expertise in succession planning and private clients to our firm. With her extensive experience, she offers comprehensive advice and representation in all areas of business and asset succession with a focus on family-run companies, their shareholders and wealthy private individuals.
Her main areas of advice include
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
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- German Certified Tax Advisor Christoph Herrmann Advises Medium - Sized Companies and Private Individuals at Our Offic in Aalen
- German Certified Tax Advisor Verena Brenner Advises Medium - Sized Companies and Private Individuals at Our Offic in Aalen
Attorney Boris Piekarek specializes in developing wealth management structures (including the selection of appropriate legal forms) for companies, real estate owners and investors, and high net worth individuals. His key competency is optimizing wealth management with respect to all aspects of German real estate law, corporate law, and tax law. The structures are based on an in-depth review and analysis of all relevant private and business risks thereby protecting our clients' often complex asset and income sources while minimizing tax burdens and ensuring continued appreciation and tax compliance.
Attorney Piekarek has extensive experience with the use of the following German legal vehicles for asset protection and asset growth:
Family pool GbRs (civil law partnerships),
Family pool KGs (limited partnerships),
Asset or real estate GmbHs (limited liability companies),
GmbH & Co. KGs (limited partnerships in which the general partner is a limited liability company) and
Family foundations and business owner foundations.
Another major focus of Attorney Piekarek's work is providing comprehensive legal and tax support in real estate investments, including the negotiation of real estate sale and purchase agreements. He has successfully advised clients on a wide range of projects involving industrial and retail commercial properties, greenfield projects, , freehold apartments and residential housing.
Attorney Benjamin Kirschbaum mainly works on matters relating to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. In this field, he offers our clients comprehensive advice on all aspects of tax law, financial supervision, and civil law. His sound technical knowledge enables him to advise FinTechs and to accompany them in building up their structures in a legally compliant way. In addition to designing tax-optimized structures, he focuses on the cooperation with the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). In this context, he assists our clients not only during the permission procedure under the German Banking Act and the German Payment Services Supervision Act but also during the implementation of the structures required under these laws and the Money Laundering Act.
In addition, Benjamin Kirschbaum works on matters relating to general civil law, administrative law, canon law and the law on religions. In particular, he is responsible for protecting religious corporations under public law from claims asserted against them by state jurisdiction, for taking civil actions against false factual allegations and defamations, and for settling social and labor law matters in this field.
He focuses on ongoing tax consulting, tax returns, the tax treatment of crypto assets and the digitalization of office processes. Furthermore, he supports our clients in legal appeals, external audits and accounting. He prepares all annual financial statements for corporations, partnerships as well as sole proprietorships.
Ikze Cho heads the Korean Desk, cooperating with his law firm D'Light TNBT Startup Legal and Tax. He primarily advises EU-based Korean and Japanese tech startups and corporations - both subsidiaries and parent companies.
Ikze Cho has extensive experience in technology, corporate governance, business, and real estate transactions. In addition, he specializes in Korean InsureTech and FinTech startups, as well as private foundations for high net worth individuals. He mainly advises on corporate law, data protection law, tax law, banking law and insurance law.
In addition to his work at our law firm, Ikze Cho has been leading "The Next Big Thing" project since 2019 to support Korean startups in the EU. This has resulted in his own law firm "TNBT Startup Legal and Tax".
Ikze Cho served as a lecturer at the Law School of Chung-Nam University in Daejon, Korea, as well as at Handong International Law School. He taught Korean law at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Germany, from 2020 to 2022.
Prior to joining WINHELLER, Ikze Cho worked in Munich, Seoul and Frankfurt/Main for major law firms as a partner or attorney and advised well-known Korean corporations. He is married and has three adult children.
Her main focus is on ongoing tax consulting, tax returns and annual financial statements for commercial enterprises. Furthermore, she supports our clients in a wide variety of legal remedies. The focus is mostly on corporations, partnerships as well as sole proprietorships.
Job Titles:
- Financial Services Specialist
- Senior Associate Financial Services
Languages
German, English
Harald Wissler is a financial services specialist at our firm and is associated within the department of international tax law. He supports individuals, companies and organizations on tax law issues in cross-border cases as well as on immigration and emigration and the operation of domestic branches. In this context, he deals with German and foreign tax law, double taxation treaties as well as transfer pricing.
Before joining WINHELLER, Harald Wissler completed a bank apprenticeship followed by several years of work as a private client advisor at a German bank and he studied banking while working. After his studies of economics with focus on taxes at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, he worked for KPMG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in Frankfurt/Main in the area of Financial Service Tax and supported national as well as international credit institutions and brokers in various tax projects and issues. In addition, he brings further valuable experience from his work in a multi-family office, where he was able to support in particular wealthy individuals on various tax issues in a national and international context.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
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- Tax Assistant, Payroll Accountant ( Datev )
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- L. - HSG, Ind. - Eng., Certified Foundation Consultant ( DSA ), COO
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- Foreign Language Assistant
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law
Johanna Rengel supports our clients at the Frankfurt/Main office in the area of assets | foundations | succession. She primarily advises wealthy private individuals on succession and asset planning in civil law and tax matters.
Her main areas of advice include
Johanna Rengel studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg. During her studies, she specialized in inheritance and family law by choosing the corresponding focus. She completed her legal clerkship in the Higher Regional Court district of Frankfurt/Main, specializing in inheritance and tax law. She enjoys spending her free time with friends, reading and sport.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Partner
- Partner, German Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Tax Law
Johannes Fein is a partner at WINHELLER and heads the team 'Nonprofit Organizations', which advises and represents nonprofit associations and federations, business and professional associations, nonprofit limited liability companies and cooperatives as well as foundations. His clients also include public authorities and religious communities of all kinds in the form of associations and religious communities recognized as public law bodies.
Johannes Fein advises his clients on all relevant legal and tax law issues and on nonprofit law. He is an experienced advisor in complex issues of association law and statutes, prepares expert opinions and revises and updates internal organizational structures, especially in large associations and federations.
In corporate law, he advises on the formation of companies and the choice of legal form - in particular the choice of the appropriate nonprofit legal entity -, on shareholder disputes, on the holding of shareholders' meetings, general meetings and membership meetings, on liability issues of managing directors and board members as well as on corporate transactions and restructurings.
In addition, Johannes Fein advises sports clubs, sports associations and sponsors in all matters of sports law, in particular in matters of the law of associations and federations, tax law, the drafting of sponsoring agreements and advertising agency agreements.
Johannes Fein advises nonprofit organizations both out of court and in court, e.g. in membership disputes and membership exclusion proceedings and in disputes with the tax authorities.
Johannes Fein studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with a focus on capital market and corporate law as well as tax law. He has been with WINHELLER since 2014. Prior to that, he worked for two years at Dornbach GmbH Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft in the area of tax law and corporate law.
In his free time, he is active in sports, especially in swimming and in the mountains. He is married and has two daughters.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
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- Tax Accountant, Specialist Wages and Salary ( IFU / ISM )
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law, German Tax Advisor, Certified Foundation Consultant ( FSU Jena )
Languages
German, English
Katharina von Campenhausen, German Attorney at Law and German Certified Tax Advisor, works as an of counsel attorney for our law firm in Berlin. She advises nonprofit organizations throughout Germany on all queries related to nonprofit law and tax law.
She advises our nonprofit clients (associations, foundations, nonprofit LLCs) in particular on general tax and nonprofit law issues, the use of funds, the formation of reserves and the distinction of the nonprofit spheres of these entities. She designs statutes and articles of association, formulates cooperation and fund transfer agreements and advises in a cross-border context.
In addition, she assumes the ongoing tax advisory activities for NPOs, i.e. she handles the determination of profits and financial accounting and prepares annual financial statements as well as all tax returns (corporate income tax, trade tax, sales tax), provides support in ongoing tax audit procedures, corresponds with the tax authorities and - if necessary - represents our clients before the tax courts.
Katharina von Campenhausen is a sought-after speaker in her areas of expertise in nonprofit law and tax consulting for nonprofit organizations.
Before joining WINHELLER, Katharina von Campenhausen worked for the law firm Schomerus & Partner in the field of nonprofit law and tax law as well as for PricewaterhouseCoopers with a focus on corporate taxation, sales tax, procedural law and international tax law. She was also a self-employed tax consultant in her own firm with a focus on nonprofit organizations for over 15 years.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Counsel
- German Attorney at Law
Kornelia Berg joined our law firm in 2022 as Of Counsel. She is responsible for the Financial Services Tax Team at the Frankfurt office.
Kornelia Berg has many years of experience in both accounting and regulatory reporting for financial service providers. Accordingly, she assists our BaFin-regulated clients not only with ongoing financial accounting and annual financial statements, including their audit, but also with the preparation of all required reports to the Deutsche Bundesbank.
Before joining WINHELLER, Kornelia Berg worked for many years in a Frankfurt law firm which, in addition to providing legal advice to numerous financial service providers, handled the complete accounting, annual financial statements and the entire banking regulatory reporting system. She was also an in-house lawyer at a securities trading bank, where she was also responsible for accounting, annual financial statements and regulatory reporting and played a key role in the development of in-house software for booking securities transactions.
Until 2021, Kornelia Berg worked as legal counsel in the legal department of a banking association. There, she provided comprehensive advice on banking regulatory issues and was involved in the implementation of European and German law requirements into practical solutions for the credit institutions affiliated with the association.
She studied law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and was admitted to the bar in 1999.
Kornelia Berg lives near Frankfurt/Main and enjoys spending her free time with friends, reading and playing the piano.
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- Business Economist, Managing Partner Assistant
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- Advisor
- German Attorney at Law, German Tax Advisor
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Attorney
- German Attorney at Law
Attorney Meike Hagel advises wealthy individuals and companies on national and international tax law at our Frankfurt/Main office.
Meike Hagel studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and completed her legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz. During her studies and legal clerkship, she focused on tax law and public commercial law.
In her free time, she enjoys sports and creative activities.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Certified Tax Advisor, Specialist Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
Michael Hecht is a German Certified Tax Advisor, Specialist Advisor for Nonprofit Organizations (DStV e.V.), and Foundation Advisor (EBS) and heads the NPO tax department at our firm's head office in Frankfurt/Main.
His areas of expertise are
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Counsel
- German Attorney at Law
Michael Rudolf Kissler provides advice of counsel in the areas of banking and capital markets law, compliance, IT law and data protection. His expertise is aimed specifically at FinTechs, start-ups, medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs.
Michael Kissler has taken on numerous mandates in connection with licensing procedures for FinTechs, in particular for securities institutions and crypto asset service providers. Another focus of his work is the design and implementation of internal control systems (ICS) and compliance management systems (CMS). As a registered data protection officer, he also has extensive experience in the development of data protection management systems (DSMS) and supports clients in communicating with data protection authorities, particularly in cases of data breaches and reporting obligations. His work focuses on the banking and finance sector as well as tech start-ups.
Job Titles:
- Tax Accountant, Certified Crypto Finance Expert
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- Advisor
- Attorney at Law
- Partner
- Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Tax Law
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- Taxation and Auditing ( B.a. ), Certified Crypto Finance Expert
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Attorney
- German Attorney at Law
Attorney Phillipp von Raven specializes in the fields of German corporate law and M&A/corporate acquisition as well as international business law and general cross-border commercial law. He has extensive experience in venture capital and private equity transactions as well as international joint ventures and is an expert on franchise agreements. In the field of corporate law, he counsels clients on matters including shareholder disputes, transformations, mergers and other complex restructurings.
Phillipp von Raven has over 25 years of professional experience. Prior to joining WINHELLER, he worked for 14 years at the US law firm Jones Day in the M&A and Corporate Law practice group. Furthermore, he worked at a major German business law firm for two years.
He is a renowned lecturer for M&A and corporate law issues and has lectured at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- German Tax Advisor
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- Managing Director
- Partner, German Attorney at Law, LL.M. Tax ( GGU, CA, USA ), Certified Specialist for Tax Law
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- Advisor
- Attorney
- German Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
Attorney Thomas Schwab's practice is focused on contract, corporate and business law matters. He counsels business clients on German inheritance law, drafts business contracts, operating agreements, bylaws, and comprehensive legal opinions, and enforces our clients' claims against debtors.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Head
- Senior Legal Assistant, Manager Client Onboarding
Languages
German, English
Thomas Weintritt is a senior legal assistant and our head assistant in Frankfurt/Main. Together with his team colleagues, he will often be your first point of contact when you get in touch with our firm. He will be happy to clarify the details of your concern during a telephone call, in order to determine the right consultant from our in-house team for you. You are also in safe hands with him when it comes to arranging appointments or organizational questions concerning your affairs.
His core competencies at our firm include US visa law and nonprofit law. He assists the head of our nonprofit department, attorney Johannes Fein. Thanks to his continuous professional development, his knowledge is always up to date with the latest case law. Thomas Weintritt recently successfully passed the examination to become a senior legal assistant (Rechtsfachwirt) in 2019. Of course, like all his colleagues, he is also bound to secrecy, so that you can approach him with confidence at any time.
Thomas Weintritt has been a member of the WINHELLER team since 2014. Prior to this, he worked for a medium-sized law firm for several years, focusing on civil, traffic, construction, criminal and insurance law.
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- Advisor
- German Certified Tax Advisor Verena Brenner Advises Medium - Sized Companies and Private Individuals at Our Offic in Aalen
- German Tax Advisor
German Certified Tax Advisor Verena Brenner advises medium-sized companies and private individuals at our offic in Aalen.
Verena Brenner completed her studies in "Taxes and Auditing" at Pforzheim University in early 2022. She has been appointed as a German Certified Tax Advisor since May 2023.
In her free time, she is passionate about sports and plays tennis.