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Dipl.-Kfm.

Dr. Gunter Friebe

Public auditor, tax consultant

As founder and senior partner of the company, Dr Gunter Friebe has many years of experience in all areas of consulting.

He acts as an advisory council to SMEs and is a member of the board of trustees of both domestic and foreign foundations.

As Chairman, he has headed the Tax Committee of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Hagen for many years, and he is a member of the Tax Committee of the German Association of Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Berlin.

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Dr. Klaus Prinz

Lawyer, public auditor, tax consultant

Dr Prinz is primarily active in the area of statutory audits for large and medium-sized corporations and commercial partnerships, including the auditing of consolidated financial statements.

His work also focuses on supporting clients of the German “Mittelstand” (medium-sized and family-owned companies) in the purchase and sale of companies and shareholdings in companies in Germany and abroad, including the associated tasks (e.g. due diligence, drafting purchase agreements).
Finally, his professional role also includes executor activities and supervisory board mandates.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Dr. Karl-Friedrich Köhle ✝

Public auditor, tax consultant

We mourn the loss of our esteemed colleague and endearing boss, Dr. Karl- Friedrich Köhle, who passed away in October 2022 after a serious illness at the age of only 57.

Dr. Köhle studied business administration and philosophy in Berlin and Münster and stood for the firm’s concept of holistic consulting.

“Our focus must be on the individual with his or her unique tax and business situation and problems. We develop the appropriate plans of action based on that situation.”

Since the contribution of his individual practice on April 1, 2003, Dr. Köhle was a partner in our partnership company, whose development he helped to shape during the 20 years of his work.

Clients, partners and employees appreciated his professional competence, his friendly and helpful nature and his open, optimistic manner to the end. He was a competent advisor to his clients, a valued role model to his colleagues and staff, and a valuable friend to many people. We owe Dr. Köhle a great debt of gratitude and will sorely miss him and his warm manner.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Klaus-Peter Stolz

Public auditor, tax consultant

Klaus-Peter Stolz particularly advises owner-run commercial partnerships and corporations of various sizes and sectors. He conducts statutory and voluntary audits of annual and consolidated financial statements and advises companies and their shareholders comprehensively in all tax matters, both on current tax issues and on restructuring and succession planning.

Due to his special experience with companies in the public sector, Klaus-Peter Stolz is also a contact person for audits and tax consulting in this respect.

Klaus-Peter Stolz is the Managing Director of our national cooperation partner, WPV Wirtschaftsprüfer-Verbund GmbH, Cologne, Germany.

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Dr. Volker Jahr

Lawyer, tax consultant, specialist lawyer for tax law, specialist lawyer for commercial and company law

Dr Jahr mainly advises German “Mittelstand” companies and their owners. His areas of focus include the supervision of company mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), the drafting of articles of association, the restructuring of companies in accordance with the law governing changes of legal form (“Umwandlungsgesetz”) and the law on taxation of business reorganisations (“Umwandlungssteuergesetz”) as well as company succession, taking into account the aspects of inheritance law and estate tax.

Dr Jahr also represents the interests of entrepreneurs and companies comprehensively in court, primarily before the Higher District Courts and Supreme District Courts and the Finance Courts up to the Federal Finance Court. In the field of criminal tax law, Dr Jahr also represents private individuals, both in court and in preliminary stages to obviate the need for court proceedings. Other key activities also include extrajudicial legal enforcement of company interests, exercise of shareholder rights and legal support of the operating business of SMEs, e.g. by drafting contracts. Furthermore, Dr Jahr supervises companies in their preparation of annual financial statements in addition to tax returns, ongoing bookkeeping and tax issues occurring in day-to-day business. Dr Jahr speaks English, French and Spanish, volunteers for charitable foundations, is the First Chairman of the “Wirtschaftsforum Südwestfalen e. V.” and a lecturer at the “Fachhochschule Südwestfalen” (South Westphalian University of Applied Sciences).

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Dipl.-Finw.

Martin John

Tax consultant, Fachberater für Internationales Steuerrecht (certifiedadvisor in international taxation)

After several years of work in financial administration, including the legal redress office, Martin John comprehensively advises SMEs of different legal forms and private individuals in tax matters. In addition to providing ongoing consultancy services as part of the preparation of annual financial statements and tax declarations, his main focus is on assisting clients in the course of tax audits and voluntary disclosures as well as extrajudicial and judicial appeal proceedings.

A further field of activity is advising non-profit organisations and the public sector on questions of non-profit status, taxation of income and value-added tax. As an accredited consultant for international tax law, Martin John is also concerned with the questions of SMEs regarding the allocation of income in international business.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Frank Leuchtenberg

Public auditor, tax consultant

Frank Leuchtenberg specialises in advising owner-run production and trading companies of the German “Mittelstand”. He conducts audits of consolidated and annual financial statements and advises companies in all tax and business management matters. In addition, he also advises the shareholders on all tax and business issues.

As part of his ongoing consultancy for companies, he makes recommendations for the optimisation of corporate structure with regard to tax and business management, using knowledge gained in the preparation of annual financial statements and tax consulting. He also has specialist knowledge in the field of company valuation.

A further focus of his work is ongoing tax consulting for companies and private individuals and the preparation of annual financial statements. Frank Leuchtenberg also specialises in peripheral areas of tax and business management such as company succession. In addition to his studies in Business Administration in Münster (Westphalia) and his many years of experience as a tax consultant and public auditor, his practical experience in all areas of management consultancy is particularly useful in this context. Mr Leuchtenberg also has specialist knowledge of tax and business consultancy for professional associations and federations.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Eckhard Berthold

Public auditor, tax consultant

Eckhard Berthold is active in the field of auditing the annual and consolidated financial statements of companies in the manufacturing and healthcare sectors. His particular focus is on optimising the financial reporting process and its quality through close cooperation with the company to be audited, both within and outside of the actual audit process.
In this context, he places the knowledge gained from his management consulting activities during his studies in Business Administration and his experience in preparing annual financial statements as a tax consultant at his clients’ disposal.
In the tax field, his focus is on current corporate taxation, in particular value-added tax.
In addition to companies subject to statutory audits, he mainly advises freelancers with their special business and tax requirements. Additionally, Eckhard Berthold is also an adviser to companies and the Chairman of the Tax Committee of the SIHK Hagen.

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Dipl.-Betriebsw. (FH)

Marie Janine Balz

Bachelor of Arts, Tax consultant, Fachberaterin für Internationales Steuerrecht (certifiedadvisor in international taxation)

After completing her training as a banker at WestLB AG, Marie Janine Balz spent a year abroad in England as part of her International Business studies in Dortmund and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree there. During her course of studies, she also spent five months in the Corporates Western Europe, European Trade, Transport & Related Services division of WestLB AG in Paris.

After completing her studies in 2004, Marie Janine Balz joined the Assurance & Advisory Business Services department of an auditing company with an international presence as an assistant and took on the position of audit senior there in 2007. In addition to conducting audits of single entity and consolidated financial statements in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB) and IFRS, she also supervised a SOX mandate. In 2009, Marie Janine Balz was appointed as a tax consultant, and she joined our company in 2010.

In addition to her leading role in auditing the annual financial statements of commercial partnerships and corporations of various sizes and sectors as well as public sector companies, Marie Janine Balz advises her clients on all tax matters in her role as tax consultant and accompanies them as part of external tax audits.

In addition to corporate taxation, her main focus is on gift and estate tax consultancy in particular. As a contact person for our international network of Kreston International, she is also responsible for international tax law issues.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Niels Frey

Tax consultant

After completing his education as a banker and studying economics, Niels Frey worked as an audit and tax assistant for a auditing and tax consulting company operating across Germany. After his appointment as a tax consultant in 2011, he acquired the qualification as a consultant for business succession (ASW e.V.) in 2012.

Niels Frey joined our company in 2013. In addition to his work as audit senior for the annual and consolidated financial statements of companies in various industries and of different sizes, he advises his clients in all areas of tax law. In addition, he has experience in the field of tax structuring consultancy, in particular in the structuring of company succession solutions as well as in the valuation of companies.

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Dipl.-Kff.

Sonja Schöttler

Public auditor, tax consultant

Sonja Schöttler conducts both statutory and voluntary audits of annual and consolidated financial statements. In addition to her auditing activities, she advises companies on issues relating to the optimisation of the financial reporting-related internal control system (ICS).

Further key areas of her professional activities are comprehensive tax and business management consultancy for owner-run companies of various legal forms, industries and sizes as well as the preparation of annual financial statements.
She also acts as a contact partner to advise private individuals on all tax matters.

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Dipl.-Kfm.

Christian Witte

Public auditor, tax consultant

Christian Witte advises medium-sized commercial partnerships and corporations of various sectors. Mr. Witte also advises the public sector, in particular he reviews the annual and aggregate financial statements in accordance with the New Community Financial Management (Neues Kommunales Finanzmanagement – NKF).

Further fields of activity are special audits, such as due diligence investigations, and the management consultancy, such as enterprise valuations, budget calculations and profitability calculations.

Christian Witte is active in various honorary offices, including as a member of the Audit Commission of the Chamber of Public Accountants, as spokesman for the “Accounting and Auditing” working group of the German Association of Tax Consultants, as a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Liberal Professions in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Westphalia-Lippe Association of Tax Consultants, as a member of the SME Advisory Board of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and as a member of the Assembly of Representatives and the Council of Representatives of DATEV. Also as a former member of the board of the Chamber of Public Accountants and as a former state president of the Chamber of Public Accountants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Christian Witte is excellently networked in terms of professional policy.

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Dipl.-Kff.

Dr. Andrea Prinz

Public auditor, tax consultant

Dr Andrea Prinz advises medium-sized partnerships and corporations as well as corporate groups from various industries. In addition to auditing the annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with the German Commercial Code, she also audits the annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with international accounting standards (IFRS). Following the holistic advisory approach, she also supports both the companies and the shareholders in tax matters.

The other areas of activity include, among other things, the preparation or plausibility check of liquidity and corporate planning, elaboration of statements on special commercial and tax accounting problems, projects to optimize corporate processes and the performance of special audits, e.g. audits according to the “Verpackungsgesetz”.

Dr Andrea Prinz is the author of various specialist articles in newsletters and co-author of the commentary “BilRUG in der Praxis”. She is also a speaker at various events such as client seminars or at the “Deutscher Steuerberaterkongress”.

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Dr. Björn Jünemann

Lawyer, specialist lawyer for tax law

Dr Björn Jünemann advises on all issues of general commercial law, inheritance law and labour law.

The main focus of his business law advisory work is on drafting contracts in commercial and corporate law (e.g. articles of association and distribution agreements) and assisting with corporate transactions and transformations of various sizes (e.g. company acquisitions and sales, mergers, joint ventures, changes of legal form, mergers and spin-offs).

The focus of his inheritance law practice is on tax-optimised comprehensive estate planning, i.e. the structuring of asset and company succession as well as corresponding measures during one’s lifetime (e.g. gifts, the establishment of foundations, health care proxies as well as living wills and care orders). In this context, he is also certified as an executor by the Working Group for Executors of Wills (AGT e.V.).

In the field of labour law, he mainly deals with individual labour law issues.

He advises you in German as well as in English.

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LLB., M.Sc.

Martin Kantor

Public auditor, tax consultant

Martin Kantor mainly conducts statutory and voluntary audits of annual and consolidated financial statements for medium-sized companies and groups of various legal forms. He advises clients from the manufacturing industry, mechanical and plant engineering, the construction industry as well as companies in the public sector. Furthermore, he gives advice in particular to corporations and partnerships on an ongoing basis in tax matters. In addition to his main areas of practice, his focus is on the use of digital analysis and auditing methods as well as the development of accounting-related internal control systems.

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Hubert Kokesch

Lawyer, specialist lawyer for tax law, specialist lawyer for labour law

Hubert Kokesch joined our practice in 1992 and provides legal consultancy, particularly in the field of labour law. In addition, he represents our clients before authorities and in court proceedings. Due to his many years of experience, he has a great deal of experience in both tax structuring consultancy and conducting negotiations.

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Bernd Nörenberg

Tax consultant

Bernd Nörenberg has been a partner in our company since 1999. As part of his activities, he supports brokerage and property development companies with the help of corresponding financial accounting and cost centre solutions.
In addition, he supports the public auditors in carrying out statutory audits in accordance with § 16 of the Ordinance on Brokers and Property Developers (“Makler- und Bauträgerverordnung, MaBV”).
One focus of his work is the valuation of undeveloped and developed properties in accordance with the provisions of the Valuation Tax Act (“Bewertungsgesetz, BewG”) to determine the assessed value and for the purposes of land acquisition tax and estate and gift tax.

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Dipl.-Oec.

Ramona Heidrich

Public auditor, tax consultant

Ramona Heidrich works as a tax consultant and public auditor.

She supports SMEs with global operations. Her focus is on auditing the single entity and consolidated financial statements of companies with an international presence as well as preparing annual financial statements and consolidations.

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Graduate degree in business administration

Thorsten Christmann

Public Accountant, Chartered Tax Accountant

With 15+ years of experience, Thorsten Christmann is an experienced public auditor and tax accountant providing advice to small and middle-class businesses.

In his role as public auditor, Thorsten Christmann focuses on conducting audits – both obligatory and voluntary – of financial statements and group consolidations for small and middle sized companies and pursuant to the German Commercial Code. He is a registered auditor for external quality controls and acts as subject matter advisor. His additional areas of expertise include business valuation and the audit of counties, municipalities and their entities. Outside of his client engagements he is a member of the “Institut der Rechnungsprüfer e.V.” (Society of internal auditors in public bodies).

In his role as tax accountant, he is an established expert on VAT and income tax questions, both with regards to individuals as well as corporations. Leveraging his academic background in combination with his deep expertise across companies and industries, he provides actionable advice to medium sized companies in the field of business administration and performance management.

He speaks English, French and Dutch.

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Dipl.-Oec.

Reimund Schepers

Wirtschaftsprüfer, Steuerberater

Initially Reimund Schepers was managing partner of a medium-sized auditing and tax consulting company. Afterwards he was for many years a partner in a larger, internationally active auditing company. He has many years of experience in auditing and consulting for medium-sized partnerships and corporations. He advises their shareholders and private individuals on tax matters in current affairs as well as on succession issues.
Another focus of his activities is the auditing and consulting of local authorities, their institutions and companies as well as associations. His advice includes business management aspects of e.g. planned restructuring as well as questions of income tax and VAT law.