Dr. Christian Bleschke is partner in the tax and benefits practice in our Berlin office. He advises clients in relation to both national and international corporate taxation issues. This advice includes maximising the tax efficiency of real estate transactions, providing tax support during mergers and acquisitions, ensuring inbound investments of foreign investors are structured in the most tax efficient manner and providing tax support to restructuring initiatives.

Christian also advises clients in connection with tax disputes, tax audits and binding rulings, including negotiating settlements with the respective tax authority, VAT, the taxation of funds and the establishment of employee share programmes.

Christian is a certified specialist in tax law (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht) and a certified tax advisor (Steuerberater).

Publications

• Einführung eines steuerlichen Sanierungsprivilegs beim Erwerb von Anteilen an Kapitalgesellschaften, VDI-Nachrichten, 18 September 2009, page 9
• Gewerbesteuer-Änderungen durch die Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 - Gestaltungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen, Unternehmer Edition 1/2009, pages 28, 29
• Zinsschranke verunsichert Immobilieninvestoren, Börsenzeitung, 17 July 2008, page 2
• Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 – Auswirkungen und Gestaltungsüberlegungen für Immobilienunternehmen, Immogramm, 1st quarter, pages 1, 2
• Die Zinsschranke umgehen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 January 2008, page 41
• Erbschaftsteuer soll bald nachgebessert werden, Berliner Wirtschaft, Magazin der Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Berlin, April 2007, page 64
• News on German Taxation: Business Tax Reform 2008 and Introduction of German Real Estate Investment Trusts, International Trade, April 2007
• Deutsche Wohnungswirtschaft, Aktuelles Steuerrecht rund um die Immobilie, Haus und Grund, Heft 6/2005, 180
• various other publications on corporate tax issues, taxation aspects for property investors

Representative Experience

• Advising on various inbound investments of UK and US-based clients in Germany, especially regarding appropriate tax structures, the thin capitalisation rules, transfer pricing, permanent establishment considerations as well as VAT issues.
• Advising on various inbound property investments of UK, Spanish and US clients, especially with regard to appropriate investment structures, permanent establishments and German trade tax issues.
• Advising international clients in relation to disputes with the German tax authorities and tax audits.
• Advising several clients national and international restructuring measures.
• The structuring and taxation of private equity funds as well as closed property funds.
• Assisting with tax due diligence in various major real estate acquisitions.