Profile: Reinhard Pöllath

Corporate Tax

Biography: Corporate Tax

Reinhard Pöllath, 60, has practised as a lawyer for over 30 years. He has worked on hundreds of transactions and assisted in structuring and reviewing more than 100 private equity funds. He has been an adviser to major family offices, investors, trusts and foundations and has been selected annually as a leading tax adviser and M&A lawyer.

Dr Pöllath obtained an LLM at Harvard in 1974 and was a partner of major law firms in Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin from 1980 to 1997. He was an executive director of a client, a hotel and real estate group, from 1993 to 1996 and CEO of a major consumer goods group from 2002 to 2003. He is an author or co-author of numerous publications (including M&A Handbook (twelfth edition) and Business Succession and Sale Handbook 2007) and chair, committee chair or member of boards of public and private companies. He is involved in pro bono work (eg, micro-loans, protection of jurists and foreigners, private equity education, fundraising for a leading German scientific institution). He has two nice children.

P+P is an independent corporate and tax firm with 85 lawyers and tax advisers specialising in M&A, tax, private equity/venture capital, funds, asset management and real estate. The firm has 22 partners (including Matthias Bruse, Dieter Birk, Andreas Rodin, Thomas Töben, Andrea von Drygalski, Andres Schollmeier, Andreas Wilhelm, Michael Best, Matthias Durst, Philipp von Braunschweig, Carsten Führling, Otto Haberstock, Wolfgang Tischbirek, Uwe Bärenz, Stefan Lebek, Margot von Westerholt, Benedikt Hohaus, Michael Inhester, Amos Veith, Andreas Richter, Richard Engl and Ingo Saenger (of counsel)) with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, and is fully independent and not affiliated with any other firm or group.