Lothar Siemers

Of Counsel Düsseldorf

Succession, Assets and Foundations

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PwC Legal

Georg-Glock-Straße 22

40474 Düsseldorf

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Mobile +49 175 2923997

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Qualification

Tax consultant since 1994
Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 1992

Expertise

Legal and tax advice for wealthy private individuals and successful entrepreneurs (entrepreneurial families)
Top managers
Family offices and foundations within a global context

Languages

German
English

I offer

About me

Lothar Siemers specialises in providing comprehensive tax and legal advice to family companies, wealthy private individuals and top managers. His areas of focus include the holistic planning and implementation of company and asset succession for his clients at national and international level.

Career

Since 2022: retired as a partner and part-time employment as of counsel in the practice group headed by Susanne Thonemann-Micker
Since 2009: leader of the legal practice group for asset succession and foundations (since 2018, jointly with Susanne Thonemann-Micker)
2006 to 2017: member of PwC Partners’ Council (from 2009: as one of three spokespersons)
Since 2006: Partner at PwC Legal AG
Since 2003: head of the Private Client Solutions department (since 2018: jointly with Susanne Thonemann-Micker)
Since 1997: appointed as Partner
Since 1994: tax consultant
Since 1992: PwC and its predecessor companies

Publications

Siemers/Müller. Offshore-Trusts als Mittel zur Vermögensnachfolgeplanung? - Eine Bestandsaufnahme aus zivilrechtlicher Sicht, ZEV 1998, S. 206
Siemers/Müller: Offshore-Trusts als Mittel zur Vermögensnachfolgeplanung? - Eine Bestandsaufnahme aus steuerrechtlicher Sicht, IStR 1998, S. 385
Siemers: Die Errichtung von Offshore Trusts als steuerpflichtiger Erwerb nach dem Entwurf des "Steuerentlastungsgesetz 1999/2000/2002", ZEV 1998, 459
Siemers/Waldens/Dimova: Hat der Vorlagebeschluss des BFH zur Verfassungsmäßigkeit des ErbStG Ankündigungseffekt?, BB 2003, 611
Endres/Schreiber (Hrsg.): Investitions- und Steuerstandort USA (Co-Autor des Kapitels Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer), 2008, Verlag C.H. Beck
Budde/Förschle/Winkeljohann (Hrsg.): Sonderbilanzen, (Autor des Kapitals zur Eröffnungsbilanz der Personengesellschaft), 4. Aufl. 2008, Verlag C.H. Beck
Müller/Winkeljohann (Hrsg.): Beck'sches Handbuch der GmbH (Autor des Kapitals Ergebnisermittlung und –verwendung), 4. Aufl. 2009, Verlag C.H. Beck

Mentions

Listed as one of the 13 “top names” in the area of “wealthy private persons and non-profit institutions” in the 2021 JUVE Tax Handbook
“Often recommended” in the area of “succession/assets/foundations” in the 2022/2023 JUVE handbook of business law firms