Dr Axel J. Schilder > King & Spalding LLP > Frankfurt, Germany > Anwaltsprofil

Dr Axel J. Schilder

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Abteilung

Corporate

Position

Managing Partner

Karriere

Axel Schilder is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Frankfurt office and leads the firm’s German tax practice. With more than 25 years of experience, his practice focuses on transactions, including financing structures and fund structuring for the real estate, energy and infrastructure, financial services, and other industries. He advises closed-end and open-end German and international investment and private equity funds, high-net-worth individuals and family offices on domestic and cross-border tax matters and tax optimization. Axel also represents clients in proceedings before German tax authorities and courts.

Axel has extensive experience representing financial institutions, investment funds, including family offices and companies in the renewables/hydrogen industry with their particularities with respect to both tax and non-tax issues and requirement in Germany and the European Union and serves as a strategic advisor to non-EU companies with business interest in the region.

With more than 25 years of experience as lawyer and tax advisor as well as tax officer with the German tax authorities, Dr. Schilder not only has extensive experience in legal counselling, but also has in-depth knowledge of the internal processes of tax administration and issues related to the practical implementation of tax compliance structures.

Sprachen

• Deutsch
• Englisch

Mitgliedschaften

• Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main
• Steuerberaterkammer Hessen
• International Fiscal Association
• Steuerberaterverband Hessen

Ausbildung

• Studium zum Diplom-Finanzwirt (FH) an der Verwaltungsfachhochschule Rotenburg/Fulda: 1988 – 1991
• Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der juristischen Fakultät der Philipps-Universität Marburg: 1991 – 1996
• Assistent von Prof. Dr. Leßmann/Promotion (Privat-, Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht): Philipps-Universität Marburg: 1997 – 2000
• Referendariat: Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Bonn: 2000 – 2002
• Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft: 2003
• Bestellung als Steuerberater: 2005