AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

AuditJurTax Group

The AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH team (from left to right): Stefan Raster, Ernst Altweger, Michael Heinze, Constantin Stiglmayr

Your attorneys for tax law and all legal matters with tax implications

Benefit from the expertise of our legal team at AJUTA in tax, commercial, corporate and inheritance law. We provide legal advice with strong tax expertise.

With AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH’s internationally active team, headquartered in Munich, your case is in the best possible hands. We listen carefully, think things through, provide sound advice and act responsibly. Together with you, we will assess all options and resolve your matter in a way that enables you to achieve your objectives in every tax-related challenge. We think like the big players, work across disciplines, and always remain discreet and people-oriented — because we treat every single mandate as an individual case.

AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH is an independent member of the AuditJurTax Group, also based in Munich. Within the AuditJurTax Group, our colleagues at AuditJurTax GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft provide a comprehensive range of tax advisory services, including annual financial statements, tax returns, business consultancy and much more. Under the motto ‘together.secure.successful.’, the AuditJurTax Group has offered ‘law and taxes from a single source’ for many years.

As a member of Ars Legis – International e.V. and other international associations, we can rely on a strong network of colleagues in numerous countries for cross-border matters.

Profitieren Sie von der Kompetenz unseres AJUTA-Anwaltsteams im Steuerrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht und Erbrecht. We provide legal advice with strong tax expertise.

With AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH’s internationally active team, headquartered in Munich, your case is in the best possible hands. We listen carefully, think things through, provide sound advice and act responsibly. Together with you, we will assess all options and resolve your matter in a way that enables you to achieve your objectives in every tax-related challenge. We think like the big players, work across disciplines, and always remain discreet and people-oriented — because we treat every single mandate as an individual case.

AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH is an independent member of the AuditJurTax Group, also based in Munich. Within the AuditJurTax Group, our colleagues at AuditJurTax GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft provide a comprehensive range of tax advisory services, including annual financial statements, tax returns, business consultancy and much more. Under the motto ‘together.secure.successful.’, the AuditJurTax Group has offered ‘law and taxes from a single source’ for many years.

As a member of Ars Legis – International e.V. and other international associations, we can rely on a strong network of colleagues in numerous countries for cross-border matters.

Your direct line to AJUTA Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft:

Our Services

Tax-focused legal advice for optimal solutions

Our tax attorneys specialize in advising companies and their owners or shareholders, as well as high-net-worth individuals. We provide comprehensive legal advice on all commercial matters with tax implications, both domestically and internationally.

Corporate and company law

AJUTA advises and supports companies and business owners from formation to liquidation.

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Corporate law advice for corporations and partnerships
  • Drafting articles of association, bylaws, rules of procedure, and shareholder agreements
  • Advice and representation in shareholder disputes and challenges to shareholder resolutions
  • Structuring advice for corporate groups and holding structures
  • Transaction documentation (M&A) and legal due diligence
  • Corporate reorganisations: mergers, demergers, changes of legal form and accretion
  • Intercompany agreements and cost recharge arrangements
  • Financing structures, including mezzanine capital, subordination agreements, silent partnerships and profit participation rights
  • Employee participation programs
  • Managing director service agreements and employment contracts
  • Social security status determinations
  • Advice and representation of employers in termination matters and unfair dismissal proceedings
  • Transparency register matters and compliance

Inheritance, gifts and wealth succession

AJUTA designs succession solutions — aligned with your interests, tax-optimized and legally robust.

Rely on our expertise in the following areas:

  • Wealth succession and anticipated inheritance
  • Optimisation of inheritance and gift tax
  • Wills, inheritance agreements, legacies and compulsory portion rights
  • Establishment of family companies, special voting rights and disproportionate profit distribution arrangements
  • Avoidance or deliberate creation of business splits
  • Establishment and support of family foundations and charitable foundations
  • Gifts to minor children
  • Post-mortem structuring options and estate settlement
  • Powers of attorney and living wills
  • Valuation of real estate, companies and other assets
  • Succession planning for assets held abroad

Real estate

AJUTA supports you in real estate investments and property transfers, with particular attention to tax implications.

Our expertise is your advantage:

  • Real estate transfer tax
  • Usufruct, rights of residence, rights in rem and hereditary building rights
  • Optimisation of inheritance and gift tax for property transfers
  • Valuation (German Valuation Act and Real Estate Valuation Ordinance)
  • Contract structuring (compliance with the 10-year “speculation period”, avoidance of deemed commercial property trading, etc.)
  • Advisory services for property-owning companies

Tax controversy and tax criminal law

AJUTA is your robust representative in disputes with the tax authorities, providing support throughout the process, from tax audits to proceedings before the Federal Fiscal Court.

AJUTA provides support particularly in the following areas:

  • Assistance during tax, external and VAT special audits
  • Objection proceedings and challenges to tax assessments
  • Fiscal court proceedings (actions, appeals and complaints against denial of leave to appeal)
  • Suspension of enforcement and deferral of tax payments
  • Voluntary disclosures
  • Defence in tax criminal proceedings

Services for fellow tax advisors

Niemand weiß alles – AJUTA verstärkt Ihr Netzwerk: Wir unterstützen Steuerberater bei komplexen Sachverhalten, die über das klassische Tagesgeschäft hinausgehen — schnell, verlässlich und auf Augenhöhe. Wir garantieren: „Ihr Mandant bleibt Ihr Mandant.

Examples of our professional collaboration:

  • Services for fellow tax advisors
  • Second opinions on complex tax issues
  • Company acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations
  • Taking over representation in problematic tax audits, tax litigation and tax criminal matters
  • Contract drafting (e.g. financing agreements, shareholder agreements, intercompany agreements)
  • Social security law (conducting status determination procedures and supporting social security audits)
  • Cross-border matters (where applicable, in cooperation with our international network partners); double taxation treaties; exit taxation
AuditJurTax Group

Team

Attorneys with a strong focus on tax law

Trust is the basis of a strong relationship between client and lawyer. That is why we value personal contact and direct dialogue with our clients.

Ernst Altweger AuditJurTax Group

Ernst Altweger

Lawyer | Tax Advisor

Senior Partner

“Experience is a true success factor in tax and legal advisory.”

Areas of special expertise:

  • Company acquisitions/sales (M&A)
  • Inheritance and gift law
  • Wealth succession planning
  • Foundation law
  • Tax litigation
  • voluntary declarations/criminal tax defense

Languages:

German, English

Connect:

LinkedIn

e.altweger@auditjurtax.com

Stefan Raster AuditJurTax Group

Stefan Raster

Lawyer | Certified Specialist in Tax Law

Partner

“International matters and tax appeal proceedings are my specialty.”

Areas of special expertise:

  • Wealth succession planning
  • Structuring advisory
  • Company acquisitions/sales (M&A)
  • Financing agreements
  • Real estate transactions
  • Tax litigation

Languages:

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch

Connect:

LinkedIn

s.raster@auditjurtax.com

Michael Heinze AuditJurTax Group

Michael Heinze

Lawyer | Certified Specialist in Tax Law

Partner

“International matters and tax appeal proceedings are my core specialties.”

Areas of special expertise:

  • Corporate law advisory
  • Company acquisitions/sales (M&A)
  • Intercompany agreements
  • Employment law
  • Social security status determinations
  • Tax litigation

Languages:

German, English

Connect:

LinkedIn

m.heinze@auditjurtax.com

Constantin Stiglmayr

Lawyer | Commercial Mediator

Associate

“Contract drafting is, for me, the foundation for managing risks and securing opportunities.”

Areas of special expertise:

  • Corporate law advisory

  • Wealth succession planning

  • Tax litigation

Languages:

German, English

Connect:

LinkedIn

c.stiglmayr@auditjurtax.com

Career

Do you share our passion for all things tax-related and are you an attorney-at-law? If so, we should talk
Please send your application documents directly to our HR contact, Verena Hlousek (v.hlousek@auditjurtax.com), or call her on +49 (0) 89 / 54 68 25 – 26 if you have any questions.
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Engagement terms and fees

Quality work comes at a fair price.

If you engage us, this will be based on our General Terms of Engagement.

We will enter into an agreement with you, defining the scope of services to be provided and the fee, as clearly as possible.Our services are generally billed based on time spent. Depending on the nature of the work and the experience of the lawyers involved, agreed hourly rates typically range from EUR 300 to EUR 400 (plus 19% VAT) per hour.

Contact

Let’s talk

Whatever your needs — whether it’s corporate structuring, succession planning, real estate or tax disputes — you can be sure that your matter will receive senior-level attention from us.

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Client testimonials

What our clients say.

The most important thing for me was making the right first impression: finding the right tax attorney who sees not only the case, but also the person behind it. Thanks to this, we were able to resolve all tax-related challenges efficiently and in a way that I could clearly understand.
Klaus H., Leitstern Company
Dank der außerordentlich guten fachlichen Unterstützung von Herrn Raster hatte das Finanzgerichtsverfahren für uns letztlich einen positiven Ausgang.
Horst S., Heidelberg