Wolf Theiss

Austria

World Tax Reviews

Tax

Wolf Theiss provides corporate tax planning, individual tax planning and estate planning. It also offers tax advice on real estate-related financial products and transactions such as debt and equity instruments, investment funds, facility agreements and receivables purchase transactions. The tax implications of bitcoin assets, voluntary self-disclosure is included in employment tax guidance, tax concerns and fiscal criminal legislation. The tax team is led by Niklas Schmidt, partner, and is assisted by Eva Stadler, counsel, and consultants Melanie Dimitrov and Karin Spindler-Simader.

During the research period, the firm advised one of Austria's largest and most well-known private foundations on the tax implications of a €1 billion asset distribution to the founder's family office. The team also advised two Austrian pharmaceutical holding corporations and their foreign individual shareholders on the feasibility and corporate law and tax law implications of transferring the legal seat of one corporation to Spain and contributing shares in the other corporation to a Spanish company, followed by an outbound upstream merger of said corporation.

Client feedback

“Very good in the tax aspects of private client issues.”