Tag: Occupational field of law and legal services
This is how you drive your accountant crazy
consultation “In many law firms things are going haywire.” (Photo: dpa Picture Alliance / zerocreatives) Frankfurt If you do not want to prepare your tax return yourself, you can get…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
Tax firms advise clients with the help of AI
Computer program ChatGPT Tax offices are already using the OpenAI software extensively for their work. (Photo: dpa) Cologne If you study the websites of tax offices these days, you will…
The best tax firms and auditors 2023
tax advice Finding employees is also becoming increasingly difficult for tax offices and auditors. (Photo: Imago) Cologne They shouldn’t be available until the end of October. Then the deadline was…
Test case against EY over Wirecard bankruptcy begins
Frankfurt Damaged Wirecard shareholders are now taking on the auditor EY. On Monday, the Bavarian Supreme Regional Court (BayObLG) in Munich appointed the private investor Kurt Ebert as model plaintiff…
An indictment of the rule of law
Hanno Berger The tax attorney was sentenced to just eight years in prison instead of the maximum sentence of 15 years – because the state is too slow. (Photo: dpa)…
Bonn district court allows charges against four Duet fund managers
passers-by in London The main suspect in this case is the head of the London fund company Duet. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne The fund company Duet from London is only known…
KPMG Law separates from suspicious partner after raid
Frankfurt skyline Apparently, KPMG Law was late in recognizing that one of its partners was no longer tenable. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne It’s over again after less than six months: KPMG…
Lawyer Günther Horvath succeeds Piech’s niece Louise Kiesling
Dusseldorf Günther Horvath is to move into the VW supervisory board and take over the vacant position on the shareholder side. That was suggested by the panel’s nomination committee, as…
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
“No incriminating findings” – White & Case checks 800,000 documents
Adler construction site Many of the Adler Group’s projects have come to a standstill. The real estate group is in a permanent crisis. (Photo: Verfürden/Handelsblatt) Dusseldorf, Berlin In the struggle…
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
Ex-Wirecard boss’s statement is delayed – dispute over key witnesses
Markus Brown The former Wirecard boss will not testify in court this week. (Photo: dpa) Munich In the process of the bankruptcy of the financial group Wirecard worth billions, the…
Consultants have a lot to do
The majority of the industry associations surveyed by the German Economic Institute (IW) are pessimistic: 39 of the 49 surveyed associations assess the current situation of their companies as worse…
Freshfields’ top attorney in the dock
In a previous life, Ulf Johannemann once guarded the goal of Prussia Munster. Then he decided to study law, passed the first state exam in 1996 and never looked back.…
Eva Kaili’s lawyer maintains her innocence – and proposes release with shackles
Eva Kaili The lawyer of the former vice president of the European Parliament protests her innocence. (Photo: IMAGO/Panama Pictures) Brussels The lawyer for the former Vice-President of the European Parliament,…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
Eight years in prison for tax attorney Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger The 72-year-old has had a deep fall. He was once one of the most renowned tax lawyers. Now he has been sentenced to the highest prison sentence to…