Press Releases

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has advised investment company Egeria on the acquisition of a majority stake in KLAFS, a world market leader in the sauna and spa sector, focusing on the tax due diligence and tax-law aspects of the share purchase agreement.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has advised company founder Roman Arnold on the tax structuring of the acquisition of a majority stake in Canyon Bicycles GmbH by investment holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL). The transaction, which is based on a company value of EUR 800 million, is expected to be completed in Q1 2021.

The first compilation of tax and business law articles written exclusively by female authors has just been published by Otto-Schmidt-Verlag. Weighing in at over 600 pages, “frauen@fgs – Vielfalt in der Steuerzentrierten Rechtsberatung” (women@fgs – Diversity in tax-focused legal advice) was written by 49 female lawyers and tax advisors from all practice areas and offices of the tax law firm Flick Gocke Schaumburg and testifies to their wide-ranging and in-depth expertise.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has appointed seven equity partners and nine associated partners with effect from January 1, 2021. They all have developed their careers at Flick Gocke Schaumburg. At the beginning of the new year, Dr. Sven-Eric Bärsch, Dr. Daniel Dreßler, Matthias Full, Dr. Nils Häck, Dr. Florian Holzner, Dr. Tanja Schienke-Ohletz, and Rainald Vobbe will become equity partners.

Advisors from Kienbaum, ESCP and Flick Gocke Schaumburg have teamed up to evaluate the German Act on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Leadership Positions in the Private and the Public Sectors (German abbreviation: FüPoG) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Their independent evaluation report was published on November 18, 2020, at the same time as a statement by the federal government on the act’s effectiveness.