Overhaul of management team at Noerr’s Tax & Private Client Dept.
A change at the top of Noerr’s Tax and Private Clients Department is pending. Stefan Hölzemann (44), who has, together with Georg Edelmann (44), headed the department, will return as a board member to WTS World Tax Service in Munich at the end of August. He came to Noerr from that position in 2006. Both Edelmann and Hölzemann are Noerr Munich partners.
The Düsseldorfer partner Dr. Lutz Schmidt (47) will replace Hölzemann. Edelmann and Schmidt know each other from their time together in the former leading German tax law firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner. “The leaders complement each other with their specialisations, so that almost the entire spectrum of Noerr’s tax advice is represented at the head of the Tax and Private Clients Department”, said Dr. Tobias Bürgers, Noer Co-speaker.
The department provides the following services:
- corporate and group tax
- restructuring
- acquisition structuring & joint ventures
- finanzing & leasing
- fund structuring
- VAT
- international & European tax law
- tax compliance
- private clients & succession planning
Schmidt became a Noerr partner on 1 May 2009. He came with a five-member team from a Düsseldorf tax boutique.
No least because of the arrival of that team, Noerr’s Tax, Advisory and Private Clients Department is well-positioned in all German offices. But not only there. In Central and Eastern Europe too, the law firm offers tax advice at the highest level in all its offices. Approx. 60 tax advisors, auditors and lawyers exclusively advising on tax law, 12 of whom (not including Hölzemann) are partners, belong to the department.