Germany’s Best Lawyers 2018: Flick Gocke Schaumburg is Law Firm of the Year for Tax Law

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has been named Tax Law Firm of the Year in the “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2018” rating issued by Best Lawyers in cooperation with the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. Prof. Dr. Thomas Rödder is named as one of the “Lawyers of the Year 2018” for tax law. Dr. Christian von Oertzen is one of the “Lawyers of the Year 2018” for trusts and succession planning.

A total of 12 partners from the firm are listed: Dr. Florian C. Haus for competition and antitrust law; Dr. Martin Oltmanns for corporate law and private equity; Dr. Christian von Oertzen for trusts and succession planning; and Dr. Michael Puls, Dr. Karsten Randt, Christian Schatz, Dr. Jörg Schauf, Prof. Dr. Andreas Schumacher, Rudolf Gocke, Prof. Dr. Detlev Piltz and Prof. Dr. Harald Schaumburg for tax law.

The Best Lawyers rating for Germany, published this year in Handelsblatt for the tenth time, is based on a comprehensive peer-to-peer survey: commercial lawyers are asked which competitors they can recommend. Law firms and lawyers who receive a particularly large number of recommendations are named Law Firm or Lawyer of the Year.