Holger Sieversen
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW – CERTIFIED TAX ATTORNEY SINCE 1984
DATE OF BIRTH: 24 March 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH: Berlin
UNIVERSTITY EDUCATION: Jurisprudence at Free University at Berlin, 1967 – 1972
PROBATIONARY TRAINING PERIOD: Berlin, 1972 – 1975
OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY: Tax administration, 1975 – 1984
MAIN ADVISORY ITEMS
Tax advising
Domestic and international tax structuring
Tax-driven legal matters
Assistance with audits by the tax authorities
Tax litigation and civil litigation
Litigation in damage claim cases against tax advisors and auditors
Legal defence in tax and corporate crime proceedings
Self-disclosures to the taxation authorities to prevent penal prosecution
Transactions, mergers & acquisitions
Trade and corporate law
Prospectus liability law
Closed-end real estate funds, prospectuses, tax-related design
Restructuring, liquidation
EXPERTISE
Publicly-funded large-scale projects
Stalinallee / Karl-Marx-Allee Buildings, publicly-funded restoration according to Historic Monuments Preservation Orders in Berlin – closed-end real estate funds
Residential buildings construction ‘Halbinsel Stralau’ – closed-end real estate funds
Conceptional taxation assistance with the infrastructure project ‘Alexanderstraße’
Restructuring of closed-end real estate funds in publicly-funded residential building constructions
Privatisation of a Royal China Manufactory
Privatisation of an industrial estate company
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Tax administration, 1975 – 1984:
Head of department at a local tax office, 1976 – 1980
Head of department (income tax, trade tax, corporate tax) at the regional tax office (OFD) at Berlin, 1980 – 1984
Attorney-at-law – Certified tax attorney since 1984
Partner in major law firms, 1993 –2010
Partner in the HWSM law firm since April 2010
Managing director at a tax consultancy office since 1994
Lecturer at EBS Real Estate Academy
Lecturer at the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Member of the Board of Certified Tax Attorneys at the Berlin Bar Association for ten years
Various publications on taxation issues by Holger Sieversen include articles in leading business magazines
