• Vocational training and work experience in a small tax consulting firm
• Study of economics in Nuremberg with focus on taxes, accounting and Spanish
• Worked in the group accounting and tax department of Nürnberger Insurance Group
• Tax consultants' exam in 1995
• 1995-2007 worked in the tax department of a medium-sized auditing and tax consulting firm in Stuttgart
  (partner since 2000)
• Two months traineeship in an auditing and tax consulting firm in London (UK) in 2001

Publications

Main working areas and interests:

• Business restructuring
• Business successions
• International tax law
• Assistance with government tax audits
• Proceedings in front of tax courts
• VAT
• Customs and excise