SWEDISH DESK

Sonntag & Partner’s Swedish Desk is an interdisciplinary team of German attorneys, tax consultants and public auditors with special know how and experience in consulting Swedish-speaking clients who are domiciled or live in Germany or have business interests or assets here (inbound consulting) and in advising clients who are domiciled or live in Germany and have business interests or assets in Sweden (outbound consulting). Our consulting services focus on comprehensive tax and tax structuring advice.

The coordinator of our Swedish Desk is Dr. Andreas Katzer, M.I.L. (Lund), who worked as an attorney with the largest Swedish law firm in both Frankfurt and Malmö from 2000 to 2004 and wrote his doctoral thesis on Swedish tax law. The law firm is auditor of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce with Rechtsanwalt, tax consultant and Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht [Rechtsanwalt specialising in tax law] Wolfgang Löhr leading the team. 

As an independent and interdisciplinary law firm with international expertise and a well-established personal network, we have the flexibility to work with those law firms and consultants that also make a point of doing quality work and have a personal consulting concept. We can therefore prepare professionally exceptional and economically sensible solutions for our clients that are coordinated nationally and internationally. Our Swedish Desk has been cooperating with the largest Swedish law firm Mannheimer Swartling for many years.

Our Swedish Desk provides integrated legal, tax and business consulting in the following cases:

Inbound

• Consulting for and during all phases of entering the German market (direct import of goods and services with and without local support, including e-commerce, establishment of a representation or branch office, founding of subsidiaries with or without an intermediary foreign holding company etc.) for the purpose of optimising your taxes.
• Support in day-to-day business activities (e.g. applications to be filed with the authorities, registrations, permits, bookkeeping and accounting, preparation of annual financial statements, controlling, tax returns, contract structuring, tax consulting with respect to transfer prices) 
• Audit of the annual and consolidated financial statements of German subsidiaries
• Structuring of and advice on financing your ideas and obligations
• Business economic consulting (e.g. business plans), preparation of expert’s reports (e.g. company valuations)
• Assistance in the acquisition of companies or other assets (e.g. properties), especially in structuring the transaction, due diligence investigations (financial, tax, legal), valuation reports, contract structuring and negotiation
• Labour and social security law, especially expatriate services
• Conflict management (representation in and out of court, arbitration proceedings, acceptance and enforcement of foreign court decisions and awards in Germany)
• Restructuring, reorganisation, financial restructuring 
• Leaving Germany, transfer of business operations and functions to other countries 

Outbound

• Tax structuring and financing of your foreign business activities
• Tax optimised utilization of Double Taxation Treaties and appropriate company and holding locations
• Advice on founding and acquiring foreign companies and other assets (e.g. properties)
• Integration of the foreign activities into the existing corporate structure and advice on setting up an effective controlling and risk management system
• Preparation and audit of annual financial statements and consolidated statements including foreign subsidiaries in accordance with international financial accounting standards (IFRS, US-GAAP)
• Tax consulting with regard to transfer prices
• Special audits (e.g. monitoring the use of resources with regard to foreign investments)
• International contract structuring
• Labour, social security and tax law aspects of international secondments
• Enforcement of German court decisions and awards abroad
• Reorganisation of the foreign business activities and support in structuring an exit

 Our working languages are German, English and Swedish. Should you have any questions, please contact: