Flick Gocke Schaumburg

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Flick Gocke Schaumburg
legal form Partnership mbB
founding 1972
Seat Bonn (six other locations)
management Thomas Rödder
Number of employees 276 professionals (2018)
sales 136.5 million euros (2018)
Branch Legal advice, tax advice, auditing
Website www.fgs.de
Status: 2019

Flick Gocke Schaumburg is a German partnership of lawyers , tax consultants and auditors . The partnership has 75 full partners and 80 associated partners. The law firm primarily works in the field of German and international tax law. This also includes advice in the areas of accounting law , asset succession , foundation law , the law of tax-exempt organizations , tax and commercial criminal law , tax compliance , auditing and company valuation . Further areas of practice are corporate law , mergers & acquisitions , labor law and antitrust law . The law firm generated a turnover of 136.5 million euros in the 2018 financial year.

Locations

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has offices in Berlin , Bonn , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Munich and Stuttgart . The head office is in Bonn. The law firm maintains a representative office in Zurich . She works with LeitnerLeitner, a tax consultancy company that operates in Austria and neighboring Eastern European countries. The firm has been a member of the international tax network Taxand since 2016.

Mandates

  • The co-founder of the law firm, Harald Schaumburg, advised Steffi Graf and her family in 1995 on criminal tax investigations.
  • The majority of DAX-listed companies seek tax advice from Flick Gocke Schaumburg, according to the firm's own statements, two thirds of DAX companies do.
  • The law firm advises large energy suppliers in particular. So she took in 1999 the restructuring of Preussen Elektra before and supervised later the merger of regional companies Bayernwerk AG and PreussenElektra and the restructuring of E.ON .
  • On behalf of the Bavarian State Parliament , Flick Gocke Schaumburg prepared a legal opinion on breaches of duty by the former Board of Management of Bayerische Landesbank .
  • In the legislative process on tax changes, the German Bundestag obtained an opinion from Flick Gocke Schaumburg.
  • The Regional Court of Munich I commissioned Flick Gocke Schaumburg to provide an expert opinion on breaches of duty by ex-CEO Georg Funke of Hypo Real Estate .
  • Karsten Randt acted as an expert for the public hearing in the German Bundestag on the draft law on the tax agreement of September 21, 2011 between the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland.
  • Flick Gocke Schaumburg advised Vattenfall GmbH on the transfer of the district heating network back to the city of Hamburg.
  • In the legal dispute over the repayment of interest from profit participation rights, Flick Gocke represented Schaumburg for the investors of the insolvent Infinus Group.

As one of the few large law firms, Flick Gocke Schaumburg made a conscious decision against entering the supposedly lucrative cum-ex business.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Society. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Press release: Flick Gocke Schaumburg appoints nine partners and 16 associated partners , fgs.de
  3. ↑ JUVE Rechtsmarkt online: Law firm records 2018/2019. In: juve.de. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ locations fgs.de,
  5. ↑ "The Graf Empire Strikes Back" , Focus from September 29, 1995
  6. ↑ Hans Leyendecker, Heiner Schimmöller, Klaus Brinkbäumer: “There is a lot of ego involved” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1996, pp. 120-129 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Profile page of the FGS law firm at beck-community
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fgs.de
  9. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), RWS Aktuell from September 3, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rws-verlag.de
  10. ↑ "Bayern LB examines lawsuit against ex-board members" , welt.de, October 18, 2010
  11. ↑ Statement of October 5, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 485 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundestag.de  
  12. ^ "Funke must wait" , n-tv, January 27, 2011
  13. ↑ Information from the Bundestag on the expert hearing on the tax agreement with Switzerland
  14. ↑ Press releases. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Press releases. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Volker Votsmeier: The cum-ex scandal shows the perversion of legal advice. Handelsblatt, December 4, 2019, accessed on February 28, 2020 (German).

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