Nadim Ahmad is a tax consultant at the Duisburg office. He specializes in corporate tax and outsourcing and is primarily responsible for the real estate and retail sectors. He is also the contact person for the China and Turkey country desks.

Foreign languages: English
 

Services

Tax Corporate tax Outsourcing

Industries

Real Estate Trading companies China Desk Turkey Desk

Daniel Franke is the contact person for auditing and tax consulting at our Duisburg office and has many years of experience in managing auditing and consulting projects. He specializes in the auditing of annual and consolidated financial statements, in particular of utility companies and medium-sized industrial companies, in special statutory audits (e.g. Section 6b EnWG, Section 53 HGrG) and in the auditing of internal control systems in accordance with IDW PS 951 as well as the development and auditing of compliance and tax compliance management systems. He also provides business and tax advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies, in particular in the context of restructuring and transformation projects, as well as accounting advice (optimization and efficiency enhancement in finance and accounting, introduction of fast-close financial statements, optimization of accounting-related business processes, design of balance sheet accruals and deferrals and extrapolation procedures).

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Internal audit / IT audit Audit-related consulting Risk management / Compliance Special audit Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) 

Industries

Energy industry

Peter Jahn works as an auditor and tax advisor at the Duisburg, Erfurt and Nuremberg offices. He specialises in particular in auditing annual and consolidated financial statements and providing business and tax advice to municipal utilities and energy supply companies. His range of activities includes special audits in accordance with the Energy Industry Act (EnWG), the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)/Combined Heat and Power Act (KWKG), the Municipal Utilities Act (KAV) and the Electricity Market Regulation (StromNEV), as well as the auditing of consolidated financial statements in accordance with the New Municipal Accounting Standards (NKF) and the establishment, auditing and advising of (private) foundations.

Professional and committee activities:

• PKF Fasselt: Head of Audit / Internal Audit
• PKF Fasselt: Competence Working Group on Sustainability/CSR Reporting
• Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW): Working Group on ‘Accounting and Auditing of Energy Supply Companies’
• Member of the Examination Board of Accountants of the North Westphalia Chamber of Industry and Commerce
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Volksbank eG Ruhr Mitte

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Private assets Intern audit / IT audit Special audit Audit-related consulting International accounting Accounting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Corporate finance Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) IT-related services IT-Advisory Foundation and non-profit law Management Consulting Risk management / Compliance

Industries

Energy-intensive companies Energy industry Family-owned businesses Trading companies Public sector Private equity Building industry and crafts Logistics and transport Real Estate

Patrick Niebuhr offers both auditing and tax consulting services. His range of responsibilities includes auditing individual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national and international principles, auditing and advising start-ups, financial due diligence, company valuations and tax compliance.

Professional and committee activities:

• Member of PKF AK Wirtschaftsprüfung

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Risk management / Compliance Tax Corporate finance Intern audit / IT audit Spezial audit Audit-related consulting International accounting Accounting Management Consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Commercial law / Business law Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) IT-related services IT-Assurance 

Industries

FFamily-owned businesses Private equity Start-ups Energy industry Real Estate Logistics and transport Architecture and engineering

Ingo Hesse works as an auditor and tax consultant at the Duisburg office. Having managed auditing and consulting projects for many years, he has a great deal of expertise, particularly in auditing energy and water suppliers of all sizes in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB). His range of activities includes in particular consulting in the areas of network/distribution (billing systems, mass data analyses, processing of levies and electricity/energy taxes), energy trading (valuation units, impending losses), accounting (unbundling, process optimization), energy-intensive companies (special equalization scheme, own electricity generation, relief from levies/taxes) as well as special legal audits (EEG, KWK-G, § 6b EnWG, § 53 HGrG, KAV) and expert opinions for energy supply companies and energy-intensive companies. He is also an author and speaker at specialist events on energy industry topics.

Specialist and committee work:

• PKF Germany: Competence working group “Public Sector”

Foreign languages: English, French

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Risk management / Compliance Internal audit / IT auditAudit-related consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Special audit 

Industries

Energy-intensive companies Energy industry Public Sector Family-owned businesses

Jasmin Vahidi works as an auditor and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) at the Duisburg office. Her responsibilities range from auditing annual and consolidated financial statements, particularly for utility companies, auditing SAP S4/HANA conversions and auditing the compliance of IT systems as part of annual audits, to software certifications (financial accounting, DMS, energy management software) in accordance with IDW PS 880. She advises on the implementation of commercial and tax law requirements (in particular GoBD) in accounting-related business processes and their mapping in IT systems, as well as on big data analyses and visualisations of accounting and energy data using IT-supported analysis techniques (IDEA, Power BI, Python). Jasmin Vahidi is also the contact person for sustainability reporting.

Foreign languages: English, French, Farsi

Services 

IT-related services Internal audit / IT audit Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) 

Industries

Energy industry Public sector

Ariane Büchtmann is a certified public accountant and tax advisor at the Duisburg office. Her practice focuses on auditing and advising municipal and public-sector clients, as well as on the further development of sustainability reporting, which she also actively helps shape as a member of the “CSRD and ESRS” working group at the IDW. 
 

Services

Sustainability reporting

Industries

Public sector Universities Waste management

The core areas of activity of Denis Fiedler include the audit of annual and consolidated financial statements of medium-sized companies with an international focus, as well as the provision of management consulting services to medium-sized enterprises.

Foreign languages: Englisch

Services

Audit

Ralf Niggemeier has extensive experience in valuing companies in connection with corporate restructuring measures and transactions, including due diligence investigations and value analyses of target companies and investments, with a focus on the energy, automotive, retail and supply/disposal sectors. His responsibilities include valuations of tangible and intangible assets, in particular networks (electricity, gas, heat, water, telecommunications), customer relationships and brands/patents, as well as valuations of companies and assets in the context of impairment tests in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB) and IFRS, purchase price allocations and for tax purposes, price law-based fee calculations and audits in accordance with LSP for companies in the waste management industry, legal and business management consulting for companies and public sector institutions, and even reorganisation and restructuring, over-indebtedness audits and going concern analyses. As co-author of studies and handbooks on corporate governance and company valuation, he continuously contributes his expertise.

Professional and committee activities:

• PKF Germany: KompAK Corporate Finance

Foreign languages: English, French

Services

Audit Legal Tax Corporate law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Prüfung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen bei regulierten und spezialisierten (CRR-) Kreditinstituten oder Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften
• Interne Revisionen bei regulierten Instituten und Auslagerungsdienstleistern
• Prüfungs- und Beratungsleistungen in Bezug auf Informationssysteme und Informationssicherheit z.B. nach den bankaufsichtlichen Anforderungen an die IT (BAIT); Qualifikation als ISO 27001-Auditorin

Frederik Hegmanns is an auditor and Certified Public Accountant (U.S.) and has many years of experience in managing international auditing and consulting projects.In addition to his main activity as an auditor for annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with HGB and IAS/IFRS, he advises on capital market issues and international accounting.Frederik Hegmanns is also an expert in the field of company valuations/impairment tests/PPA and special audits (mergers, closing balance sheet).

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements International accounting Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

The focus of activities includes company valuations in the context of corporate restructuring measures under stock corporation and transformation law, as well as expert determinations and the preparation of fairness opinions. Further responsibilities include participation in the audit of annual financial statements of medium-sized companies and corporate groups, as well as support in management consulting for medium-sized companies and corporate groups. In addition, audits of non-profit organizations in accordance with USAID requirements are performed.

Foreign languages: Englisch

Services

Audit Tax Corporate Finance

Jens Düe specializes in auditing and advising medium-sized family businesses as well as advising on inheritance and corporate succession, restructuring and reorganization.

Specialist and committee work:

• Member of the board of the Welfenakademie e.V.
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Volksbank eG Braunschweig Wolfsburg
• Member of the Union Kaufmännischer Verein von 1818

Foreign languages: English

Services 

Tax Accounting Management Consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Corporate tax Payroll and HR service Private tax consulting Tax-structuring advice Outsourcing Foundation and non-profit law Audit Succession planning and inheritance law Advice on restructuring and insolvency law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Corporate finance Private assets

Industries

Automotive Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Trading companies Private Equity Architecture and engineering Hotel and gastronomy Logistics and transport Real Estate Start-ups

Kai Schöneberger is a partner at the Duisburg office and is responsible for legal and tax structuring advice in a (inter)national context. His areas of expertise include corporate restructuring, international tax law, commercial and corporate law, and M&A. In addition to inheritance and succession planning, his work also encompasses fiscal court proceedings and regular lectures on current issues in tax and corporate law. Kai Schöneberger co-authored the 5th edition of Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Umwandlungen, C.H. Beck, Munich, 2017.

Professional and committee activities:

• International Fiscal Association (IFA)
• Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW), member of the working group on taxation of partnerships

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Legal Tax Tax-structuring advice Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Commercial law / Business law Corporate law Succession planning and inheritance law

Steffen Zipperling works as a tax advisor in the Berlin office. He specialises in advising medium-sized companies, tax planning, conversion tax law, international tax law and tax compliance.

Foreign languages: English
 

Services

Tax-structuring advice  Privat tax consulting Tax Annual financial statements / Company tax returng Corporate tax Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring International consulting

Industries

Family-owned businesses Hotel and gastronomy Real Estate

As a tax consultant at our offices in Duisburg, Hamburg and Hanover, Eleonora Groos is responsible for providing comprehensive tax advice to SMEs and family-run companies as well as preparing and assisting with digitalization processes in the area of financial and payroll accounting for SMEs and quality assurance. Her range of tasks also includes assisting with tax audits and tax court proceedings and preparing tax returns and annual financial statements for SMEs.

Services

Tax Payroll and HR service Private tax consulting.txt Accounting Annual financial statements / Company tax return 

Industries

Family-owned businesses Start-ups 

Julian Ehrhardt specializes in advising medium-sized companies and groups of companies at our Berlin office. He focuses on preparing annual financial statements and tax returns for companies and private individuals and supporting clients in the digitalization of their processes.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Accounting Foundation and non-profit law Annual financial statements / Company tax return Tax-structuring advice Corporate tax Private tax consulting 

Industries

Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Real Estate Architecture and engineering

At the Duisburg office, Oliver Heckner is responsible for providing generalist tax advice to international and national companies and corporate groups, including tax department functions. He has many years of experience in supporting large-scale and group audits, in tax compliance (setting up and quality assurance of processes), in group and VAT law, transfer pricing and in tax reporting. Oliver Heckner also regularly gives internal and external lectures and training courses, including in the sbm project of the University of Duisburg-Essen at the Duisburg campus, the Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce - Taxes for Start-ups -, at client events and in-house seminars.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax

Wolfgang van Kerkom works as an auditor, solicitor and tax advisor at our Cologne office. He specialises in corporate tax law, tax structuring advice, particularly in international tax law, and valuation/inheritance tax law. Another focus of his work is auditing and advising family-run businesses.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Legal Tax Tax-structuring advice

Industries

Family-owned businesses

Sören Damerau works at our Braunschweig office as a lawyer, tax advisor and specialist consultant for international tax law. In addition to international tax law, he specializes in tax litigation, inheritance and corporate succession advice and non-profit law.

Specialist and committee work:

• PKF Germany: Competence working group on international tax law

Foreign languages: English, French

Services

Succession planning and inheritance law Foundation and non-profit law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

The core areas of activity of Lukas Bien include the tax advisory services for industrial, service and utility companies as well as for local authorities and other public-sector entities. This particularly includes ongoing tax compliance and filing services covering income taxes, value added tax, withholding tax as well as electricity and energy taxes.

In addition, Lukas Bien focuses on tax structuring advice, especially in the context of transformations and reorganizations, taking into account electricity and energy tax law as well as other excise taxes. He also advises and represents clients in tax dispute proceedings, including tax audits, objection proceedings and cases before the fiscal courts and the Federal Fiscal Court. Tax law relating to non-profit organizations and tax criminal law are also part of his advisory portfolio.

Further areas of activity include advisory services on accounting matters and the preparation of annual financial statements. His professional profile is complemented by speaking engagements at client events, in-house seminars and for the BDEW – German Association of Energy and Water Industries.
 

Foreign languages: Englisch

Services

Tax Value-added tax, customs duties, electricity, energy and other excise duties

Industries

Service industry

Dr. Franz Schulte works as a lawyer at our Duisburg and Düsseldorf offices and specializes in commercial and corporate law, foundation and non-profit law, and criminal tax law, including customs law. He also has particular expertise in inheritance and tax law. As an author of specialist articles, he also contributes his in-depth knowledge. Franz Schulte is an associate partner and also head of the Legal division.

Professional and committee activities:

• PKF Germany: Competence Working Group for Non-Profit Organizations
• PKF Germany: Competence Working Group for the Public Sector

Foreign languages: English

Services

Legal Commercial law / Business law Succession planning and inheritance law Corporate law in the public sectorCriminal tax law / Criminal customs law Foundation and non-profit lawBusiness mediation / Arbitration / Court proceedings 

Industries

Social economy and NPO

Christoph Janning ist als Rechtsanwalt sowie Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht am Duisburger Standort tätig. Sein Tätigkeitsspektrum umfasst das Individual- und Kollektivarbeitsrecht, die Beratung von Vorständen, Geschäftsführern und Personalverantwortlichen, das allgemeine Zivilrecht und die Vertragsgestaltung sowie die bundesweite Prozessvertretung (vor allen Arbeitsgerichten, Landesarbeitsgerichten sowie vor dem Bundesarbeitsgericht).

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Services

Arbeits- und Sozialrecht Handelsrecht / Wirtschaftsrecht Wirtschaftsmediation / Schiedsverfahren / Gerichtsverfahren

Maha Steinfeld ist als Rechtsanwältin und Fachanwältin für Arbeitsrecht am Duisburger Standort tätig. Sie hat sich auf die rechtliche Beratung von mittelständischen Unternehmen und Unternehmensgruppen, insbesondere allgemeines Individual- und Kollektivarbeitsrecht, Sozialversicherungsrecht, Geschäftsführerdienstverträge sowie Beendigung von Arbeits- und Dienstverträgen spezialisiert. Ein weiterer Fokus liegt auf dem Recht der betrieblichen Altersversorgung, Drittpersonaleinsatz und Auslandsentsendungen. Sie publiziert regelmäßig im Bereich des Arbeits- und Sozialrechts.

Fach- und Gremienarbeit:

• PKF Deutschland: Kompetenzarbeitskreis Betriebliche Altersversorgung

Fremdsprachen: Englisch, Französisch

 

Services

Arbeits- und Sozialrecht Internationale Arbeitnehmermobilität

Astrid Schulte ist Fachanwältin für Arbeitsrecht und spezialisiert auf Arbeitsrecht, kirchliches Arbeitsrecht, kollektives Arbeitsrecht, Tarifvertragsverhandlungen, arbeitsrechtliche Sanierungs- und Restrukturierungsberatung sowie arbeitsrechtliche Beratung bei Fusionen, Kooperationen, Transaktionen und Ausgliederungen. Sie berät des Weiteren bei Umstrukturierungen, Fragen rund um betriebliche Altersversorgung, insbesondere Zusatzversorgungsrecht des öffentlichen Dienstes/der Kirchen, Prozessrecht und Vertragsrecht und fungiert als Mediatorin bei Gesellschafterstreitigkeiten, Insolvenzrecht, Erbrecht, Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht.

Fach- und Gremienarbeit:

• Vorstandsmitglied einer gemeinnützigen Stiftung

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Services

Rechtsberatung Arbeits- und Sozialrecht Gesellschaftsrecht Nachfolgeplanung und Erbrecht Stiftungs- und Gemeinnützigkeitsrecht Unternehmenstransaktionen (M & A) / Umwandlungen / Strukturierungen Wirtschaftsmediation / Schiedsverfahren / Gerichtsverfahren

Yvonne Sinram ist als Rechtsanwältin am Braunschweiger Standort tätig. Sie hat sich auf  Arbeits-, Sozial- und Lohnsteuerrecht und hier auch die Schnittstelle zwischen diesen Rechtsgebieten spezialisiert.

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Services

Stiftungs- und Gemeinnützigkeitsrecht Arbeits- und Sozialrecht

Katrin Heinicke ist an unserem Kölner Standort als Rechtsanwältin und Fachanwältin für Steuerrecht tätig. Sie hat sich auf die Gebiete Arbeits- und Sozialrecht sowie Gesellschaftsrecht spezialisiert.

Fremdsprachen: Englisch, Französisch

Services

Arbeits- und Sozialrecht Gesellschaftsrecht 

Susanne Blask, Rechtsanwältin am Duisburger Standort, hat sich auf europäisches Beihilferecht sowie europäisches und nationales Vergaberecht spezialisiert. Zudem zählen Kommunalrecht mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem Bereich Entsorgungswirtschaft, Screening EU-beihilferechtsrelvanter Sachverhalte in kommunalen Konzernstrukturen, die Erarbeitung von Lösungen zur rechtlichen Absicherung EU-beihilferelevanter Sachverhalte sowie die EU-Beihilfe- und vergaberechtliche Sonderprüfungen im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen zu Ihrem Tätigkeitspektrum. Die Beratung der öffentlichen Hand als Beihilfegeber wie auch beihilfeempfangende (Beteiligungs-)Unternehmen verschiedenster Branchen zu allen Fragen des EU-beihilferechts und die Beratung sowohl der öffentlichen Hand als auch von Bieterunternehmen verschiedenster Branchen zu allen Fragestellungen des europäischen und nationalen Vergaberechts zählen ebenfalls zu Ihren Beratungsschwerpunkten. Außerdem ist Susanne Blask als Referentin für EU-beihilferechtliche Fachveranstaltungen und Work-Shops und als Autorin tätig.

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Services

EU-Beihilfe/ Vergaberecht Gesellschaftsrecht im öffentlichen Sektor

Branchen

Öffentlicher Sektor

Thomas Allekotte specializes in providing legal advice to utilities and waste disposal companies as well as municipalities and municipal companies in the areas of municipal commercial law, municipal tax law, pricing law, public procurement law, European state aid law and corporate law. In particular, he offers advice on the structuring and implementation of procedures for the award of network concessions, advice to waste disposal companies on the drafting of contracts with public waste disposal authorities, tax and legal advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies as well as assistance in the auditing of annual financial statements, in particular of companies and institutions in the public sector. Thomas Allekotte has many years of expertise in the management of auditing and consulting projects.

Specialist and committee work:

• PKF Germany: Public Sector Competence Working Group
• Member of the German Public Procurement Network DVNW

Foreign languages: English, Dutch

Dr. Johannes Hochgürtel has been working for PKF Fasselt since 1997. At the Duisburg office, he specializes in national and international commercial and corporate law, stock corporation law, real estate law as well as arbitration and litigation law.

Foreign languages: English, French

Jenny Acan specialises in all aspects of national and international commercial and corporate law. She specialises in particular in the restructuring of companies, e.g. through changes of legal form and mergers or M&A and the formation of corporations and partnerships as well as the drafting and review of articles of association. She specialises in share transfers and corporate succession, company acquisitions and sales, capital increases and reductions, shareholder disputes, managing director and board member liability, employment contracts for managing directors, board members and employees, UN sales law and advice on distribution law. The drafting and review of general terms and conditions and representation in court for the enforcement and defence of claims round off Jenny Acan's area of responsibility.

Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish, Aramaic

Services

Corporate law Commercial law / Business law

Lars Heymann is responsible for tax and legal advice, in particular for owner-managed companies and their shareholders. He specializes in advising on inbound investments by foreign companies in Germany, due diligence advice on the purchase and sale of companies and the taxation of maritime shipping. He also specializes in inheritance law and inheritance tax advice as well as the establishment and restructuring of foundations and non-profit institutions.

Foreign languages: English, Spanish

Services

Succession planning and inheritance law Foundation and non-profit law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

Insudtries

Social economy and NPO

Thomas Illy is the Head of our Frankfurt am Main office. As a Certified Public Auditor and Tax Advisor, he specializes in corporate finance as well as in the preparation and audit of restructuring concepts, the preparation and implementation of insolvency plans, over-indebtedness reviews and the valuation of companies in crisis.

Foreign Languages: Englisch, Französisch

Services

Audit Annual financial statements/ consolidated financial statementsg Financial Service Special audit Audit-related consulting Private tax consulting Annual financial statements / company tax return Corporate Tax Tax-structuring advice Advice on restructuring and insolvency law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Private assets Tax

Industries

Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Trading companies Logistics and transport Real Estate Start-ups Public Sector 

The focus areas of lawyer and tax consultant Dr. Kristina Bexa at our Duisburg office are tax compliance, including the implementation of tax compliance management systems, the processing of tax and customs criminal law matters in the context of internal investigations and VAT issues. It also advises on non-profit law and is involved in the development of legal and tax tech-based processes. Other areas of focus range from advising on excise tax and payroll tax issues to consulting on tax disputes, tax audits and individual customs law issues.

Foreign languages: English
 

Services

Criminal tax law / Criminal customs law Non-profit law Value-added tax

Industries

Service industry Production industry

Sebastian Thiel arbeitet als Rechtsanwalt und Steuerberater im Duisburger Büro. Dabei steht die steuerliche und rechtliche Beratung von mittelständischen Unternehmen und Unternehmensgruppen im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit. Weitere Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte sind Beratung im Insolvenzeröffnungsverfahren, Verteidigung gegen Insolvenzanfechtungsansprüche, Geschäftsführerhaftung in Krise und Insolvenz sowie allgemeines Insolvenzrecht.

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Services

Gesellschaftsrecht Handelsrecht / Wirtschaftsrecht Nachfolgeplanung und Erbrecht Unternehmenstransaktionen (M & A) / Umwandlungen / Strukturierungen 

Christian Müller-Kemler works as an auditor and tax advisor in Duisburg and Düsseldorf. He audits and advises companies of all legal forms and industries and has many years of experience as an auditor and advisor to DAX companies and other capital market-oriented corporations. Christian Müller-Kemler has particular expertise in supporting Chinese and Russian investors in Germany and advising family businesses and their shareholders.

Professional and committee activities:

• PKF International Liaison Partner for the Duisburg and Düsseldorf offices
• Spokesperson for PKF Germany
• PKF Germany: Chairman of the Executive Committee
• PKF Germany: Marketing & PR Working Group
   

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Audit-related consulting International consulting China Desk Annual financial statements / Company tax return Turkey Desk

Industries

Automotive Family-owned businesses Trading companies

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Betreuung und Beratung chinesischer Mandanten in steuerlichen Angelegenheiten, insbesondere im Bereich Einkommensteuer bzw. Lohnsteuer und bei grenzüberschreitenden Mitarbeiterentsendungen
• Erfahrung im Bereich Verrechnungspreise innerhalb großer Konzerne
• Unterstützung und Begleitung chinesischer Unternehmen in der Gründungsphase und im Tagesgeschäft

Fremdsprachen: Chinesisch, Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Sustainability Auditor IDW

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Prüfung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen, insbesondere von Versorgungsunternehmen sowie städtische Gesamtabschlüsse
• Prüfung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit von IT-Systemen im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen
• Big Data Analysen und Visualisierungen von Buchhaltungs- und Lohnsteuerdaten mittels IT-gestützter Analysetechniken (IDEA, Power BI, Python)
• Interne Revisionsprojekte im IT-Umfeld (z.B. Berechtigungen, Patch-Management)
• Projektbegleitende Prüfungen von Migrationen gemäß IDW PS 850
• Prüfung von Internen Kontrollsystemen von Dienstleistern im IT-Umfeld gemäß IDW PS 951
• Begleitung von Prozessautomatisierungsprojekten in der Buchführung

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Projektbegleitende Prüfungen von Systemeinführungen, Datenmigrationen und IT-Compliance-Anforderungen (nach IDW PS 850, ISAE 3000)
• Prüfung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit von IT-Systemen und Interner Kontrollsysteme im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen
• Durchführung von Prozessanalysen sowie Beratung bei Prozessoptimierungen
• Prüfung des dienstleistungsbezogenen Internen Kontrollsystems und Berichterstellung (IDW PS 951, ISAE 3402)
• Durchführung von Softwarezertifizierungen nach IDW PS 880
• Beratung bei der Umsetzung von handels- und steuerrechtlichen Anforderungen (insbesondere GoBD) in rechnungslegungsrelevanten Geschäftsprozessen sowie deren Abbildung in IT Systemen

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Prüfung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit von IT-Systemen im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen
• Prozessanalysen und Prozessoptimierungen
• Prüfung von Internen Kontrollsystemen, Aufbau von Internen Kontrollsystemen und Durchführung von IKS Prüfungen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen nach IDW PS 951
• Migrationsprüfungen insbesondere bei Umstellungsprojekten im SAP S4/HANA-Umfeld
• Softwarezertifizierungen (Finanzbuchhaltungssystemen, Dokumentenmanagementsystemen) nach IDW PS 880
• Beratung bei der Umsetzung von handels- und steuerrechtlichen Anforderungen (insbesondere GoBD) in rechnungslegungsrelevanten Geschäftsprozessen sowie deren Abbildung in IT Systemen
• Begleitung von Einführungen im Rahmen von Digitalisierungsprojekten (Workflows, digitaler Rechnungseingangsworkflow, Archivsysteme)

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Mitwirkung bei der Prüfung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen bei Energieversorgungsunternehmen und -projektgesellschaften
• Prüfung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit von IT-Systemen im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen
• Durchführung von (Massen-)Datenanalysen und -visualisierungen und Journal Entry Tests (JET) mithilfe von IDEA, Power BI und VBA
• Mitwirkung bei projektbegleitenden Prüfungen gemäß IDW PS 850, insbesondere Transitions- und Migrationsprüfungen
• Integration von Prozessautomatisierungslösungen zur Effizienzsteigerung in Analyse- und Prüfungsprozessen

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Mitwirkung bei der Prüfung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen bei kommunalen Querverbundkonzernen sowie Energieversorgungsunternehmen
• Prüfung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit von IT-Systemen im Rahmen von Jahresabschlussprüfungen
• Datenanalysen und Datenvisualisierungen von Buchhaltungs- und Energiedaten mittels IT-gestützter Analysetechniken (IDEA, Power BI, Python)
• Mitwirkung bei projektbegleitenden Prüfungen gemäß IDW PS 850, insbesondere Transitions- und Migrationsprüfungen

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Martin Franke is the contact person for auditing and tax consulting at our offices in Duisburg, Frankfurt and Cologne. His activities range from buy-side due diligence services for strategic investors and PE houses in the context of international transactions, sell-side services (factbook, exit readiness analyses, VDD) and restructuring and distressed M&A as well as valuation and purchase price allocation, to corporate planning and reporting, portfolio reviews and independent business reviews.

Specialist and committee work:

• Board member of the Private Equity Forum NRW

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax Corporate finance

Arnd Schienstock is the site manager for the offices in Duisburg and Düsseldorf. His main areas of expertise are auditing the annual and consolidated financial statements of medium-sized companies and corporate groups, consulting and assessment in matters of reorganisation/restructuring (business recovery) and insolvency, in particular reorganisation project management and reorganisation reports in accordance with IDW S6, and corporate planning/business modelling. He also has many years of expertise in supporting corporate transactions, in particular tax and financial due diligence and support in purchase negotiations, in financial consulting, in particular financing alternatives and financial communication (bank reporting), and in forensic detection of fraudulent acts, corruption and fraud.

Professional and committee activities:

• PKF Germany: Corporate Finance Competence Working Group
• PKF International Restructuring and Insolvency Services Group

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Special audit Audit-related consulting Annual financial statements Advice on restructuring and insolvency law Corporate finance 

Industries

Building industry and crafts Social economy and NPO Architecture and engineering 

Franklin Hünger is responsible for the Energy Industry practice at PKF Fasselt. He is the key contact for audits and advisory services for utility companies of all sizes, as well as for statutory audits and special-purpose audits. His areas of expertise also include company valuations, cost accounting, M&A advisory services and consulting on restructuring matters. In addition, he advises on the regulation of electricity and gas networks as well as on antitrust-related issues.

As an author and speaker, he addresses topics such as network tariff calculation for access to electricity and gas networks, the implementation of unbundling requirements in energy networks, audits under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and accounting in accordance with the German Energy Industry Act (EnWG).

Professional and Committee Activities:

• Chair of the Energy Expert Committee (EFA) at the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW)
• PKF Germany: Member of the Competence Working Group “Public Sector”
• PKF Fasselt: Head of the Energy Industry sector

Foreign Languages: Englisch

Services

Audit Tax

Industries

Energy industry

Claudio Di Gaudio is an associate partner at the Duisburg office. He has many years of experience advising electricity and natural gas network operators, particularly on issues related to tariff regulation. Another area of focus is advising on partnerships and restructuring in the energy sector, particularly in the regulated network business.

Foreign languages: English
 

Industries

Energy industry Regulation and controlling cooperation projects / transactions

Urte Lickfett has particular expertise in auditing and advising public companies and institutions of all legal forms and numerous sectors of state and local government, as well as public administrations and institutions, including universities. In the field of higher education, she provides support with her comprehensive expertise in the conversion of accounting from cameralistic to double-entry systems. As the author of numerous specialist articles, particularly on accounting in the public sector, as well as editor and co-author of PKF Themen Campus and co-editor of the Handbook of Higher Education Accounting, she supports these formats with her extensive expertise.

Professional and committee activities:

• Working group on ‘Accounting and Auditing of Local Authorities’ at the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW)
• Working group on ‘Auditing the Regularity of Local Authorities' Budgetary Management’ at the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) (IDW)
• Working group on ‘Accounting and Auditing of Universities’ at the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW)
• PKF Germany: Expertise working group on the ‘Public Sector’

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax

Industries

Public Sekcor Universities Waste management

Ralph van Kerkom works as an auditor, solicitor and tax advisor at the Cologne office. He specialises in auditing and advising family-run businesses, non-profit associations and foundations, as well as associations, and in auditing and advising in the public sector (municipal companies and institutions).

Professional and committee activities:

• Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association of Tax Consultants, Auditors and Certified Public Accountants Cologne e. V.
• Member of the Study Association of Tax Consultants in North Rhine-Westphalia e. V.
• PKF Germany: Competence Working Group for Non-Profit Organisations

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Legal Tax Foundation and non-profit law

Industries

Family-owned businesses Social economy and NPO Public sector

Rainer Cech has many years of experience in auditing and advising medium-sized companies as well as social institutions, clubs and associations. He conducts various training courses and lectures in the field of welfare organizations and is also a member of the supervisory board of various diaconal institutions.

Specialist and committee work:

• Member of the supervisory board of various diaconal institutions
• Lecturer at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (Department of Economics) since 2005
• PKF Germany: Competence working group for non-profit organizations

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Foundation and non-profit law

Industries

Social economy and NPO
 

Prof. Dr. Frank Winzker specialises in auditing individual and consolidated financial statements, special audits in the areas of business administration and company law, and audit-related consulting. He also trains clients in his areas of expertise and contributes his knowledge, for example, through his collaboration on Beck's Handbook of Accounting.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Special audit Audit-related consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return AccountingInterne audit/ IT audit

Industries

Automotive Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Trading companies Public sector

Katja Kühne works as an auditor and tax advisor at the Berlin office. Her responsibilities include auditing individual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national principles, auditing and advising medium-sized companies, family businesses, non-profit organisations and public enterprises. Tax compliance and international transfer pricing are also part of Katja Kühne's remit.

Professional and committee activities:

• Member of the PKF Non-Profit Working Group

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit  Annual financial statements Outsourcing Risk management / Compliance Audit-related consulting Corporate Tax Internal audit / IT audit Special audit Financial Service  Tax  Accounting Payroll and HR service Management Consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax returnPrivate tax consulting Tax-structuring advice Customs duties and other excise duties Succession planning and inheritance law Advice on restructuring and insolvency law Foundation and non-profit law International consultingCorporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Corporate finance Private assets

Industries

BBuilding industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Private equity Architecture and engineering Banks and BaFin-regulated companies Hotel and gastronomy Real Estate Social economy and NPO

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Prüfung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen bei regulierten (CRR-) Kreditinstituten, Wertpapier-und Finanzdienstleistungsinstituten
• Verantwortung und Implementierung von Internen Revisionen bei regulierten Unternehmen in Voll- bzw. Teilauslagerungen
• Governance, Risk und Compliance (GRC)
  • Risikomanagement und -früherkennung
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Geldwäscheprävention
  • MaRisk- / Wertpapier-Compliance
• Prüfung von dienstleistungsbezogenen internen Kontrollsystems nach IDW PS 951 n.F.

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Langjährige Leitung von Prüfungs- und Beratungsprojekten
• Prüfungsleitung von Jahres- und Konzernabschlüssen mittelständischer Unternehmen und Unternehmensgruppen
• Prüfung von Jahresabschlüssen, insbesondere von Unternehmen in dem Bereich Kredit- und Zahlungsinstituten sowie Leasing- und Inkassogesellschaften
• Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung von Kredit- und Zahlungsinstituten / E-Geld-Institute sowie Leasing- und Factoringgesellschaften, insbesondere von Unternehmen in den Bereichen Geldwäscheprävention, Adressrisikomanagement, Meldewesen und Kreditgeschäft (gewerbliches Kreditgeschäft und Konsumentenkreditgeschäft, Bewertung von Kreditsicherheiten), Compliance Beratung

Fach- und Gremienarbeit
Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW)

Fremdsprachen
Englisch

Gisa Johannes works as an auditor and tax advisor at the Braunschweig office. Her main areas of expertise include auditing and advising medium-sized family businesses as well as auditing annual and consolidated financial statements. She is an honorary judge in the Chamber for Tax Advisors and Tax Agents at the Regional Court of Hanover.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Succession planning and inheritance law

Industries

Family-owned businesses Logistics and transport

Oliver Beier is the location manager for our Berlin office. As an auditor and tax consultant, he primarily advises medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs. He specializes in tax structuring and transaction advice as well as auditing individual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national and international standards.

Specialist and committee work:

• Partner responsible for quality assurance
• PKF International: International Liaison Partner for the Berlin office
• PKF Germany: Managing Director
• PKF Germany: Chair of the Quality Assurance Working Group

Foreign languages: English
 

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Corporate finance Audit-related consulting Tax International consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Corporate tax Tax-structuring advice Internal audit / IT audit Special audit
 

Industries

Family-owned businesses Real Estate Start-ups Architecture and engineering Energy industry

Enrico Kiehne specialises in providing tax advice to medium-sized companies. His main areas of expertise include VAT law, non-profit law and support during tax audits.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Corporate tax Tax-structuring advice Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Private tax consulting Customs duties and other excise duties

Industries

Automotive Family-owned businesses Real Estate

Frank Villwock heads the Braunschweig office. He specialises in auditing annual and consolidated financial statements as well as auditing and advising medium-sized and public companies.

Professional and committee activities:

• Since 2005, lecturer at Ostfalia Hochschule in Braunschweig (Department of Economics)
• Member of the Union Kaufmännischer Verein von 1818

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Special audit Audit-related consulting

Industries

Automotive Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Logistics and transport

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Durchführung von Prüfungen im Energiebereich, wie z.B. Prüfung der besonderen Ausgleichsregelung, Prüfungen von Strompreiskompensationsanträgen, Prüfungen nach KWKG und Ähnliche
• Unternehmensbewertungen/Business Pläne/Planungswesen/Sanierungen
• Prüfung mittelständischer inhabergeführter Unternehmen
• Autor von mehreren Fachbeiträgen

Fach- und Gremienarbeit:

• Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW): Arbeitskreise EEG und KWKG
• Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW): Arbeitsgruppe Stromkreiskompensation
• Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW): Arbeitsgruppe Letztverbraucher
• Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW): Arbeitsgruppe Konzessionsabgaben

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte:

• Steuerliche Beratung land- und forstwirtschaftlicher Betriebe
• Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung land- und forstwirtschaftlicher Betriebe
• Unterstützung bei der rechtlichen Beratung land- und forstwirtschaftlicher Betriebe

Fremdsprachen: Englisch

As a chartered accountant and tax advisor, Marius Künne manages the Haldensleben, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel offices. He specialises in providing tax and business management advice to small and medium-sized enterprises and in preparing annual financial statements.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Accounting  Private tax consulting Outsourcing Succession planning and inheritance law Annual financial statements / Company tax return

Industries

Agriculture and forestry

Thomas Anderleit heads the PKF Fasselt office in Rostock. His focus is on tax and legal advice for the real estate, construction and trade sectors. His range of services also includes strategic advice and consulting for family foundations, cooperatives and dormant partnerships.
 

Services

Legal Tax

Industries

Real Estate Building industry and crafts

At our Braunschweig office, Nicole Busch concentrates on auditing the annual and consolidated financial statements of medium-sized and public companies and internationally active groups of companies as well as companies of various legal forms and sectors. Her field of activity also includes providing business management advice to medium-sized and public companies and groups of companies as well as auditing form sets of public companies in the context of consolidated financial statements in accordance with the NkomVG and supporting companies in auditing activities. She also has extensive experience in carrying out internal reviews, developing quality assurance measures within companies and auditing quality controls.

Foreign languages: English
 

Services

Audit

Industries

Public sector

Uwe Deuerlein works at our Nuremberg office. He specializes in the auditing of annual and consolidated financial statements, in particular of utilities and industrial companies, and energy industry issues. Special statutory audits (EEG, KWK-G) for plant operators, grid operators and distribution companies are just as much a part of his range of activities as support with applications for the special equalization scheme under the EEG and the implementation of EnWG requirements in the area of activity-based financial statements. His tasks also include supporting the optimization of incentive regulation and carrying out auditing activities. He also has extensive expertise in the area of electricity and energy tax and is active as an author and speaker in the utilities industry, NWB and Euroforum, among others.

Specialist and committee work:

• Chief Financial Officer Forum Contracting e.V.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Risk management / Compliance Special audit Audit-related consulting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Customs and excise duties

Industries

Energy-intensive companies

Holger Drumm works in our Duisburg and Düsseldorf offices and is particularly involved in structuring in a national and international context and advising (inter)national companies and groups of companies. His main areas of expertise range from corporate restructuring to tax advice for public sector companies and energy supply and transport companies to support during tax audits. He also has many years of experience in managing consulting projects.

Specialist and committee work:

• PKF Germany International Tax Law Competence Working Group

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Corporate Tax Tax-structuring advice Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

Industries

Family-owned businesses  Public sector Start-ups Trading companies Logistics and transport  Automotive

Verena Engeln works as an auditor and tax consultant at our Duisburg office. As a long-standing manager of auditing projects, she audits and supervises the annual financial statements of medium-sized companies and groups of companies of various legal forms and sectors. Verena Engeln also provides business, tax and legal advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies, in particular companies in the trade and manufacturing sectors.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit

Matthias Herrlein is responsible for audits of annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national and international accounting standards at the Cologne office. He specializes in auditing and advising public companies and owner-managed companies and groups of companies, special audits and other assurance services as well as EU subsidy audits.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Accounting Special audit Audit-related consulting Commercial law / Business law Internal audit / IT audit 

Industries

Trading companies Public sector Hotel and gastronomy Family-owned businesses

Daniela Hiller works as a tax consultant at the Rostock office. She specializes in the comprehensive support of medium-sized companies, both from the region and international SMEs in northern Germany, in the areas of tax advice and financial and payroll accounting. Her work also focuses on tax advice, in particular for owner-managed companies and their shareholders as well as public sector companies, tax law support for the return to tax honesty/advice in the context of criminal tax proceedings, structuring and implementation of inbound investments by foreign companies in Germany as well as tax structure advice for partnerships and their shareholders.

Specialist and committee work:

• Former member of the board of Wirtschaftsjunioren Rostock

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Payroll and HR service

Industries

Public sector

At the Cologne office, Joachim Hirte is responsible for providing tax and legal advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies. His main areas of activity include auditing the annual financial statements of companies of various legal forms and sectors and providing audit-related advice, as well as international tax law and managing inbound and outbound projects.

Specialist and committee work:

• PKF Germany: International Tax Law Working Group

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Legal Tax Audit-related consulting Annual financial statements

Dr Dietrich Jacobs works as an auditor, tax advisor and specialist advisor for international tax law at the Hamburg office. He specialises in managing transfer pricing projects (advising on transfer pricing policy, preparing documentation, defending clients in tax audits, advising on mutual agreement/arbitration procedures), tax and structural planning advice, particularly in international tax law and shipping. His responsibilities include providing tax advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies, particularly those in the shipping and trade sectors, managing audit and consulting projects, and providing business management advice to medium-sized companies and groups of companies, particularly those in the shipping sector. He also acts as a speaker at client events, employee training courses and PKF EMEI networking meetings.

Professional and committee activities:

• Long-standing lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg
• Numerous publications in commentaries, handbooks and trade journals on various issues of tax law and accounting

Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish

Services

Audit Tax Tax-structuring advice

Industries

Logistics and transport Trading companies

Steffen Klein is a tax advisor at the Braunschweig office. His work focuses on developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to support clients in tax matters. He is also involved in the further development of artificial intelligence (AI) and tax technology (Tax Tech) with the aim of developing innovative solutions to further increase the efficiency and quality of tax advice.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Tax Annual financial statements / Company tax return Corporate tax Management Consulting

Industries

Building industry and crafts Family-owned businesses Trading companies Start-ups

Frank Moormann has been working as a solicitor and tax advisor at the Braunschweig office since 1995. He specialises in company law, transformation law and restructuring, inheritance and inheritance tax law, corporate succession, and foundation and non-profit law.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Legal Tax Corporate law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring Foundation and non-profit law Succession planning and inheritance law

As a chartered accountant and tax advisor, Gerd Norta has many years of experience in managing audit and consulting projects. His range of activities includes auditing annual and consolidated financial statements of medium-sized, national and international companies and groups of companies with a focus on the manufacturing industry. He also provides quality assurance support for tax accounting and tax reporting for companies and groups of companies and conducts forensic investigations. Gerd Norta has particular expertise in special issues relating to deferred taxes under HGB, IFRS and US GAAP.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements

Tinko Pentschev specializes in the audit and advisory services of municipal utility companies, including statutory audits and special-purpose audits. His scope of activities also includes the audit and advisory services for public transport companies, the performance of statutory audits, as well as the audit of telecommunications and retail companies.

Professional and Committee Activities:

• PKF Germany: Member of the Competence Working Group “Public Sector”

Foreign Languages: English, Bulgarian

Services

Audit Annual financial statements/ consolidated financial statements Special audit Audit-related consulting

Industries

Energy industry  Public Sector

Kathrin Pethke is the location manager for our PKF Fasselt office in Hannover. She works as an auditor and tax advisor and specialises in managing annual and consolidated audits with a focus on energy supply and the public sector, special statutory audits (e.g. Section 6b EnWG, Section 53 HGrG, EEG, KWK-G) and audit-related consulting.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax  Audit-related consulting

Industries

Energy industry Public sector

Heimo Schabacker works as a tax advisor in Frankfurt am Main. His main areas of expertise are: tax planning and structuring, investment and financial consulting, tax procedural law, sales taxation within the EU, accounting for corporations and partnerships, and the taxation of their shareholders.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Accounting Annual financial statements / Company tax return Tax-structuring advice

Industries

Building industry and crafts  Trading companies Logistics and transport Family-owned businesses

As an auditor and tax advisor at the Duisburg office, Tanja Schmitz is primarily responsible for auditing annual and consolidated financial statements and providing business management advice, particularly to medium-sized manufacturing companies. Her responsibilities include providing comprehensive tax advice to family-run companies and groups and their shareholders, preparing tax returns for companies and their shareholders, drafting tax opinions, handling special issues in the area of value added tax and providing VAT compliance advice.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax Audit-related consulting Corporate tax Tax-structuring advice Succession planning and inheritance law Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

Industries

Family-owned businesses

Henrike Teske is NL Manager in Rostock for the auditing division at the Chamber of Public Accountants. Her work focuses on auditing annual and consolidated financial statements for medium-sized companies and corporate groups, particularly in the pharmaceutical, skilled trades, foundations, and shipping sectors, as well as audits in accordance with the Packaging Act.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax

Industries

Building industry and crafts  Social economy and NPO

At the Braunschweig office, Wibke Troch specialises in auditing annual and consolidated financial statements, auditing and advising medium-sized family businesses, and company valuations.

Professional and committee activities:

• Member of the Industrieklub Braunschweig von 1918 e.V.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Corporate finance

Industries

Building industry and crafts Architecture and engineering

Frank Wellhöfer is a chartered accountant and tax advisor at the Nuremberg office. He specialises in auditing individual and consolidated financial statements, primarily for medium-sized and capital market-oriented companies and groups of companies, and in providing accounting-related advice to international groups of companies.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Special audit Audit-related consulting

Industries

Energy-intensive companies Energy industry

As a tax consultant, Michael Birke specializes in advising medium-sized companies at our Braunschweig office. He focuses on non-profit law and reorganizations.

Foreign languages: English

Dirk Joostberends is a certified public accountant and tax advisor at the Duisburg office. He focuses on the implementation of regulatory requirements related to sustainability and financial reporting and supports clients in the financial services sector and the energy industry. 
 

Services

Sustainability reporting

Industries

Energy industry

Thomas Weber has been working for PKF Fasselt in Frankfurt am Main since 1 July 2024 and became a partner on 1 January 2025. As a tax advisor, he specialises primarily in structuring advice, particularly with regard to corporate succession and restructuring, M&As and start-ups, as well as dealing with tax law issues.

Services

Tax Tax-structuring advice Corporate transactions (M & A) / reorganisations / structuring

Friederike Rolshoven has been working as an auditor and associate partner at the Frankfurt office since January 1, 2025. Her professional focus is on auditing in the power and utilities sector and for the public sector.

Professional and committee activities:

• “Founding member” of the Energy Committee (EFA) at the IDW (until 2022)

Services

Audit

Industries

Public sector Energy industry

Prof. Dr. Christian Hanke has been working as an auditor, tax advisor and associate partner at the Duisburg office since 1 January 2025. His professional focus is on supporting medium-sized audit clients, sustainability reporting and training and further education at the PKF Fasselt Academy.
 

Specialist and committee work:

• Responsible for central WP training courses for the IDW
• Lecturer at various universities
• Member of the IDW working group ‘ISA Implementation’
• Member of the examination board for the chartered accountant examination

Services

Audit Tax Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

Dr. Mario Wagner has been working as a Tax Advisor and Associate Partner at the Hamburg office since February 1, 2025. His professional focus lies in tax advisory services for medium-sized companies, with particular expertise in VAT consulting for nationally and internationally operating businesses, VAT law, (international) income tax law, reorganization tax law and real estate transfer tax.

Academic and committee activities:

• Lecturer at Hamburg School of Business Administration and Hochschule Fresenius in Hamburg

Foreign languages: Englisch

Services

Tax Value-added tax, customs duties, electricity, energy and other excise duties

Industries

Trading companies Real Estate Architecture and engineering Service industry Logistics and transport

Sarah Stapper works as a tax advisor and certified public accountant. She has many years of experience in auditing and advising medium-sized companies and corporate groups. Another area of her expertise is the audit of consolidated financial statements. Sarah has also served as the branch manager of the Dortmund office since 2025. 

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax Corporate finance

Industries

Trading companies Production industry

Tax Advisor and Attorney-at-Law Prof. Dr. jur. Till Zech has more than 25 years of experience in tax law, particularly as an expert in transfer pricing and international tax law. Since 2026, he has played a key role at PKF Fasselt in establishing a dedicated “Transfer Pricing” service line.

Professional and Committee activities:

• Managing Director of the Institute for Law, Finance and Taxation, Faculty of Law at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
• Professor of Tax Law, Faculty of Law at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
• Member of the Board of IFA Germany (International Fiscal Association)
• Spokesperson of the IFA Regional Group Westphalia

Languages: English, Dutch

Services

Tax

Markus Bitz specialises in auditing annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national and international accounting standards, audit-related consulting, special audits, other assurance services, EU subsidy audits and audits of proof of use (e.g. Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe) at our Cologne office.

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Annual financial statements Special audit Audit-related consulting International accounting Accounting 

Industries

Family-owned businesses Trading companies Automotive Hotel and gastronomy

Torsten has been working as an auditor, tax advisor and associate partner in Duisburg since 1 October 2025. He plays a key role in shaping the digitalisation of our audit processes.

Main areas of activity:

• Expertise in auditing and advising industrial companies
• Extensive experience in auditing capital market-oriented companies
• Further development of audit approaches through the use of data analysis and digital solutions

Foreign languages: English

Services

Audit Tax

Services

Tax Verrechnungspreise

Julia Mahl is a tax consultant at the Cologne office and provides a specialized range of advisory services. Her practice focuses in particular on tax advisory services for high-net-worth individuals, succession planning, the preparation of financial statements and tax returns—including for the agricultural and forestry sectors—as well as tax support for real estate transactions (share and asset deals). In addition, she has extensive experience advising on private equity and venture capital investments with international dimensions, on criminal tax law issues with a focus on capital assets, and on inheritance and gift tax structuring. International employee secondments and corporate structuring are also part of her core advisory repertoire.

Languages: English, French

Services

Tax Private assets  Annual financial statements / Company tax return International consulting

Industries

Agriculture and forestry Real estate 

Jessica Süß is a certified public accountant and tax advisor at our offices in Braunschweig and Magdeburg. Her practice focuses on auditing and advising social economy organizations, including associations and foundations, as well as public-sector entities and research institutions. In addition, she is involved in internal and external professional training, including through a teaching position at Ostfalia Wolfenbüttel.

Foreign languages: English, polish
 

Services

Audit  Annual financial statements / consolidated financial statements Audit-related consulting International accountingSpecial audit 

Industries

Social economy and NPO Public sector

Daniel Guilbert is a partner and tax advisor at the Hamburg office. His practice focuses on tax planning, tax compliance and real estate tax law. He advises clients on complex structural issues, tax-optimized corporate and real estate structures and strategic decisions.

Services

Tax Tax-structuring advice

Industries

Real estate