Dr. Michael Schmidt

Your Contact Person

Dr. Michael Schmidt
Rechtsanwalt, Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht, Steuerberater

Telephone: +49 69 2474 736-10
Telefax: +49 69 2474 736-9910
Email: m.schmidt@schmidt-taxlaw.de

 

Lectures (sel.)

  • International Bar Association, Seoul, 25 September 2019: Startup speed dating: tax and legal planning for the entrepreneur/founder
  • The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, 17th STEP Germany Annual Conference, Frankfurt am Main, 22 February 2019, Tax pitfalls when moving to and leaving Germany
  • International Bar Association, Washington, D.C., 20 September 2016: Tax treaties post BEPS
  • International Bar Association, London, 29 February 2016: I want my plan in good shape – Health checks and spring cleaning of your estate planning
  • The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Branch Monaco, Monaco, 21 January 2015: Are you already off the hook or still trapped? Pitfalls and opportunities of estate planning with links to Germany
  • Chamber of Industry and Commerce Offenbach, Offenbach, 20 November 2014: Foreign permanent establishments of German enterprises in the focus of taxation
  • International Bar Association, Tokyo, 20 October 2014: Secondment of employees from and into Asia
  • International Bar Association, London, 4 March 2013: How to deal with those difficult assets?
  • VR Equitypartner, Frankfurt am Main, 10 December 2012: Avoiding the management’s liability risks from leveraged transactions, in co-operation with Dr. Marc Hayn, Houlihan Lokey, Managing Director and Head of Northern Europe Financial Advisory Services
  • Beiten Burkhardt, Munich, Legal Day, 18 October 2012: There's life in the old dog yet – the modernization of the German tax group relief (Organschaft) for gCIT and gTT purposes
  • Beiten Burkhardt, Munich, Legal Day, 18 October 2012: The new German Policy on DTTs – the unknown turn of the tide and its consequences for corporate strategies
  • Joint client seminar of Beiten Burkhardt, Houlihan Lokey and Management Partner Transaction, September 2012: Leveraged (Buy Out) Transactions: Managing of individual chances and risks of board members of companies
  • Hojinkai, in Frankfurt am Main, November 2010: Transfer Pricing Documenation and Transfer of Function Taxation – How should Japanese companies react?
  • Bundesverband Mittelständische Wirtschaft e.V, in Frankfurt am Main, June 2010: Funktionsverlagerung und Transfer Pricing – Chancen und Risiken für den Mittelstand (Transfer of Function and Transfer Pricing – Chances and risks for medium-sized companies)
  • Seminar, in Frankfurt am Main, March 2010: Funktionsverlagerung und Transfer Pricing – Chancen und Risiken für den Mittelstand (Transfer of Function and Transfer Pricing – Chances and risks for medium-sized companies)
  • International Tax Conference, in Amsterdam, 27/28-4-2009: Successful intra-group business restructuring
  • Goldman Sachs, in Frankfurt am Main, 28-8-2008: Panel Discussion with respect to the New Flat Tax for interest and dividend income and sales gains
  • FDP-Bürgerforum, in Berlin, 5-7-2008: Private Equity – Panel Discussion
  • Seminar, in Frankfurt am Main, 5-6-2008: Investing in India
  • International Tax Conference, in Amsterdam, 13/14-3-2008: Tax strategies for M&A and business restructuring
  • Seminar, in Frankfurt am Main, 6-3-2008: Zinsschranke – Neue Chancen für Private Equity-Investoren? (Interest Barrier Rules – New opportunities for Private Equity investors?)
  • Deutsches Eigenkapital-Forum, 12-11-2007: Panel Discussion with respect to the draft Bill of „MoRaKG“, with Dörte Höppner, Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften e.V.
  • Seminar, in Frankfurt am Main, 1-3-2007: Vergleich G-REITs, UK-REITs, F-REITs und alternative Szenarien für börsenreife Immobilienunternehmen (Comparison among G-REITs, UK-REITs, F-REITs and alternative scenarios for Real Estate Companies looking for an IPO)
  • Deutsche Bank, in Munich, 5/2006: Internationaler Erbfall (The international case of succession)
  • Seminar, in London, 27-4-2006: Opportunities in Corporate Real Estate
  • Seminar jointly held with DTZ and Credit Suisse, in London, 28-4-2005: Property investments in Germany – A new dawn?
  • Credit Suisse, in Schaffhausen (Switzerland), 17-1-2003: Standort Schweiz – Steuerliche Rahmenbedingungen einer Verlagerung der unternehmerischen Tätigkeit in die Schweiz (Switzerland as a location – transfer of business activities to Switzerland)
  • EUROFORUM, in Munich, 4-7-2001: Steuerstrategien für den Mittelstandskonzern (Tax strategies for a group of medium-sized companies)
  • EUROFORUM, in Berlin, 25/26-10-2000: Immobilien und Steuern nach der Unternehmenssteuerreform (Real estate and taxes after the Companies Tax Reform Act)
  • EUROFORUM, in Freiburg, 20-9-2000: Konzernsteuerschule: Steuern bei Umwandlungen (Academy for taxation of groups of companies: Taxes in case of restructuring measures)
  • Speakers’ Contest, IBA, in Antwerpen, 2/3-3-2000: Eliminating harmful tax competition
  • EUROFORUM, in Frankfurt am Main, 14-6-1999: Grunderwerbsteuerliche Aspekte bei Konzernumstrukturierung und Unternehmenskauf und -verkauf (German Land Transfer Tax issues with respect to restructuring measures within a group of companies and purchasing and selling of a business)
  • EUROFORUM/DER BETRIEB, in Düsseldorf, 2-12-1998: Grunderwerbsteuerliche Aspekte der Umstrukturierung, insbesondere der Konzernumstrukturierung (German Land Transfer Tax issues with respect to restructuring measures, in particular restructuring measures within a group of companies)
  • “ifa“, 20-4-1998: Mittelständische Bauunternehmen – Steuern sparen (Mid-sized building contractors – Saving taxes)
  • EUROFORUM/DER BETRIEB, in Düsseldorf, 26/27-2-1997, and in Berlin, 20/21-11-1997: Grunderwerbsteuerliche Optimierung von Immobilienprojekten (Optimizing German Land Transfer Tax issues with respect to Real Estate Projects)
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