Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2020

GERMANY FIRM PROFILE RGT Group operates four branch offices in Germany. The biggest office is located in Germany´s major financial center Frankfurt. For more than 50 years, RGT Group has been successfully providing a wide range of professional services to clients ranging from individuals to global corporations both in Germany and abroad. Complex situations – whether they involve legal matters, taxes, or business-related issues – call for in-depth knowledge and flexibility. The concepts, solutions and strategies are always fine-tuned to the context in question and adapted to the clients’ individual needs and preferences. Under the four major service umbrellas of Legal Advisory, Tax Advisory, Auditing, Business Consulting, RGT Group Frankfurt office has accumulated solid credentials in advising its clients in setting up companies, commercial and company law, “One-stop-shop M&A” and transaction advisory, corporate restructuring (tax restructuring, post- M&A, due diligence, etc.), complicated tax issues and tax offenses, succession planning, inheritance issues, etc. In addition to the above-mentioned specializations of RGT Frankfurt office, RGT Group is also engaged in general tax compliance, wage tax preparation and preparation of financial statements. RGT Group is led and managed by eight Partners. Each of the Partners is expert in his/her particular professional area. In total, RGT has around 120 employees, of whom 29 are certified professionals (public accountants, tax advisor, lawyers). This enables us to offer holistic support in different areas and to work inter-disciplinarily. As a member of PrimeGlobal, one of the five largest associations of independent accounting firms in the world, RGT has connections in over 80 countries and to more than 300 highly successful independent accounting firms. The personal contacts to PrimeGlobal member firms enable RGT to offer clients qualified and customized support worldwide in order to meet their needs in cross-border specific tax, accounting and legal issues as well as restructuring issues. ABOUT SÖREN WEISSERT Sören Weißert (1976), Partner of RGT Group, is based in the Frankfurt office. Withmore than 15 years´ professional experience, Sören is a German “Steuerberater” (Tax advisor) and certified international tax advisor who has been actively contributing to German and international clients from a wide variety of sectors with main focus on international taxation, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Tax Auditing and Restructuring. After passing the exam as a tax executive (“Steuerfachangestellter”), he continued to pursue advanced studies in this area and successfully graduated in 2004 from the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrueck, specialized in Taxation & Auditing. Right afterwards, he worked on two long-term projects in the area of taxation and public revenues in Cape Town (South Africa) as well as Accra (Ghana). In 2006, he joined Ernst & Young and worked in Frankfurt amMain/ Eschborn as well as in Reading (UnitedKingdom),wherehewasmainlyresponsible for the tax consultancy for international clients. During this time, he passed the exam as a Certified Tax Advisor (“Steuerberater”) followed by a Master of Law (LL.M) degree in commercial law. In 2011, Sören joined RGT and was appointed as Partner in 2014. Beyond consultancy, Sören is author of several technical articles on taxation, published in national as well as international magazines. Besides, he is also lecturer at the Audi Academy in Ingolstadt. While “Steuerberater” is normally translated into English as “Tax advisor”, it is literally “Consultant of the steering wheel” in German language. Being at the position to advise clients in “steering” their businesses and matters, Sören is committed to think with the clients, think for the clients and think ahead of the clients. - “Why do you love your job?”, if you ask him. - Sören would say “I help the clients, solve their issues and save their businesses. And it´s not ´just´ Tax.” CONTACT W: www.rgtgroup.de 17