DR. PHILIPP LUKAS LL.M.
PROF. DR. GÖTZ T. WIESE
PROF. DR. GÖTZ T. WIESE
is a German lawyer, tax advisor and certified specialist in tax law. He advises clients on taxes, corporate law and the law of succession, with particular emphasis on:
Family-owned businesses, transition and succession planning
Taxation of corporate groups and partnerships
Mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, financings
Structuring cross-border transactions
Field audits and civil and financial court lawsuits
Prof. Götz Wiese has more than 20 years’ experience in structuring companies and major corporate transactions, advising SME-type companies, groups and investors on taxes and corporate law. From 2001 to 2016 Prof. Wiese served as the head of the tax department of Latham & Watkins in Germany. Götz T. Wiese is Honorary Professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and managerial board member of Hamburger Forum für Unternehmensteuerrecht.
BIO
1966
1985
1985 – 1987
1987 – 1991
1992
1993
1996
1997 – 2000
2001 – 2016
2016
born in Hamburg
Abitur (A-level equivalent)
reserve officer training in Lüneburg
Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Heidelberg, Freiburg und München; 1. Jur. Staatsexamen in München 1992
start of dissertation in the field of economic analysis of the law; parallel attendance of short trainee programme at, and personal assistant to the CEO of, Holsten-Brauerei AG, Hamburg; internship with a Chicago law firm
start of legal traineeship with the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg; 1994/1995 employed with Jungheinrich AG, Hamburg
second German State Exam, doctor of laws degree and admission to the Hamburg bar
member of the tax department of Clifford Chance in Frankfurt, in 2000 admission as tax advisor and certified specialist in tax law; relocation to Hamburg
at Latham & Watkins, head of the tax department in Germany;
2008—2012 managing partner of the Hamburg officefounding partner of
WIESE LUKAS
Honorary Professor at Bucerius Law School in HamburgEXPERIENCE
Selected transactions
- Tax structuring of an international logistics company with European subholdings (corporate tax law, financing, double tax treaties)
- Cross-border structuring of a real estate portfolio (income and trade tax, real estate transfer tax, double tax treaties)
- Structuring of a privately-held asset pool of an international family of entrepreneurs (dissolution of a trust, income taxation, application for a ruling with the competent tax offices)
- Reorganisation and partial sale of corporate group in the financial sector (corporate and transformation tax law, M&A)
- Advising a strategic buyer on the acquisition of an internationally operating
corporate group (tax due diligence, structuring, SPA, implementation) - Establishment of a branch of a Scandinavian bank in Germany (international tax law)
- Estate planning for family investors in international corporate group (income tax, international tax)
- Reorganisation of a corporation and joint venture with a strategic partner in
the maritime business (tax and corporate law) - Structuring of the sale of an investment company and dissolution of a joint venture
(corporate group taxation, transactional taxes) - Reorganising a family-owned waste-management company in northern Germany, adding an investor, structuring the participation agreement (tax law, company law)
- Structural advice and succession planning in a family-owned shipping company in Hamburg, coordination with the tax authorities (income and inheritance tax), contract structuring
- Structural advice at the interface of corporate codetermination, company law and international tax law, including exit taxation
- Advising on the group structure of a leading food producer in Germany (partnership taxation, trade tax, international tax law)
- Advising majority and minority stakeholders of a variety of German companies, including family-owned companies (corporate law, tax law, law of succession)
- Resolving shareholder disputes in SME-type companies (holistic approach)
- Last will and testament advice and execution for a variety of business owners
- Restructuring a family-owned pharmaceutical company in northern Germany, transition planning, coordination with the tax authorities, contract structuring
- Holding structure and transition planning for a trading house in Westphalia (concept, binding ruling, implementation)
- Holding structure/group restructuring for a publishing house in northern Germany (group tax rate, tax law, company law)
- Forming a joint venture of a shipping enterprise and a private equity investor (financial structure, syndication agreement, taxation)
- Restructuring, capital measures and addition of German and foreign investors, for a variety of companies active in the shipping, information technology and automobile supporting industries, providing structural advice with particular emphasis on tax aspects
- Spin-off and partial sale of an international group in the metal industry (with particular emphasis on transformation aspects and international tax law)
- Cross-border domicile relocation for an investment holding (group effective tax rate, international tax planning)
- Start-up consultancy and structural advice for a variety of high-growth companies, adding venture capital and structuring stock option programmes (taxes and corporate law)
- Acquisition structures for strategic investors and international private equity funds active in Germany (structuring and implementation)
- Syndicated acquisition of an incorporated shipping enterprise (structuring and implementation)
- Raising and restructuring debt capital for reorganising a primary production company in southern Germany (structuring and implementation)
- Selling a minority stake in an industrial enterprise (income, transformation and inheritance taxation)
- Stock buy-back programme for an MDAX-listed health corporation based on a binding ruling (corporate income tax and international tax law)
- Restructuring and sale of a variety of real property holding companies (trade tax, international tax law, land acquisition tax)
- Advising and representing clients in field audits, financial court proceedings and appeals to the Federal Fiscal Court
- Board and committee activity in a variety of organisations
MEMBERSHIPS
- Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer, Hamburg
- Steuerberaterkammer, Hamburg
- Honorary Professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
- Managerial member of the board of Hamburger Forum für Unternehmensteuerrecht
- Member of the advisory committee of GmbH-Rundschau magazine
- International Fiscal Association (IfA)
- Member of the advisory committee of IfA Norddeutschland
- Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft, Cologne
- Fachinstitut der Steuerberater, Düsseldorf
- Verein zur Förderung des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Internationales Finanz- und Steuerwesen, Hamburg
- Member of the board of trustees of Überseeclub Hamburg
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