Julian advises medium and large (family-owned) companies, family offices as well as private clients. The focus of his tax advice is on national and international corporate tax law as well as succession planning. Julian has also experience in the area of the controlled foreign corporation (CFC) rules as well as exit taxation.
Education and Career
Julian studied economics with a focus on tax law at the Corporate State University Baden-Württemberg and Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. In addition to his business activities, he completed a doctorate in international tax law at the University of Hohenheim. Before joining YPOG, he worked as Associate at Flick Gocke Schaumburg and previously as Manager at EY.
Experience
Julians recent work highlights include advising:
- medium and large companies on various restructurings in terms of income and real estate transfer tax considerations
- medium and large companies on tax audits in terms of the German controlled foreign corporations rules
- family-owned companies on the establishment of holding structures in terms of income and real estate transfer tax considerations
- private clients on relocation abroad and on company succession
* not a partner within the meaning of the German Partnership Company Act (Partnerschaftsgesellschaftsgesetz – PartGG)
Qualifications
- German qualified tax advisor (Steuerberater)
- Certified advisor for international tax law (Fachberater für Internationales Steuerrecht)
- Doctor of Economics
- Master of Arts
Languages
- German
- English
Commentaries
- Section 7 – Investments outside Germany,
in: Oppel/Jander-McAlister/Bäuml, Beck’sches Handbuch Family Office, 2025 [in German] - Commentary on Sec. 8 Para. 5 AStG
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law (together with Jürgen Haun) [in German] - Commentary on Sec. 8 Para. 2 - 4 AStG,
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law (together with Jürgen Haun) [in German] - Commentary on Sec. 8 Para. 1 No. 6 AStG,
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law [in German] - Commentary before Sec. 8 Para. 1 AStG,
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law (together with Jürgen Haun) [in German] - Commentary before Sec. 8 AStG,
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law (together with Jürgen Haun) [in German] - Commentary before Sec. 7 - 13 AStG,
in: Haun/Kahle/Goebel, Commentary on Foreign Tax Law (together with Jürgen Haun) [in German] - Commentary on Sec. 26 KStG,
in: KStG eKommentar, Commentary on Corporate Tax Law (together with Patriz Ergenzinger) [in German] - Commentary on Sec. 12 KStG,
in: KStG eKommentar, Commentary on Corporate Tax Law (together with Patriz Ergenzinger) [in German]
Essays and notes on judgments
- The tax classification of the establishment of a principal structure as a transfer of business opportunity or transfer of function
Internationale Steuer-Rundschau 2024, p. 397 - 402 (together with Luisa Geserich) [in German] - The obligation to report domestic tax arrangements – the dead live longer!,
Betriebs-Berater 2014, p. 2071 - 2076 [in German] - Exit taxation: When is the German taxation right excluded or limited?,
Die Unternehmensbesteuerung 2024, p. 187 - 192 (together with Florian Oppel) [in German] - Note on Federal Fiscal Court, Decisions of 11.7.2023 – I R 21/20, I R 36/20, I R 40/20 and I R 45/20,
Die Unternehmensbesteuerung 2024, p. 38 - 49 [in German] - Draft of the "new" conversion tax decree: In case of doubt for the tax authorities! – Part II,
Betriebs-Berater 2023, p. 2711 - 2716 (together with Florian Oppel and Maximilian Trappmann) [in German] - Draft of the "new" conversion tax decree: In case of doubt for the tax authorities! – Part I,
Betriebs-Berater 2023, p. 2647 - 2653 (together with Florian Oppel and Maximilian Trappmann) [in German] - Note on Federal Fiscal Court, Decision of 22.3.2023 – XI R 45/19,
Finanz-Rundschau 2023, p. 837 - 840 [in German] - Income tax group in reorganizations – current developments,
Der Betrieb 2023, p. 1433 - 1440 (together with Ulrich Prinz) [in German] - Tax accounting consideration of the retention option according to Sec. 67 Para. 1 Sent. 2 EGHGB?,
Unternehmensteuern und Bilanzen 2023, p. 481 - 485 (together with Till Krummel) [in German] - Note on Federal Fiscal Court, Decision of 2.11.2022 – I R 29/19,
Finanz-Rundschau 2023, p. 360 - 366 [in German] - Are "costs for the transfer of assets" within the meaning of Sec. 12 Para. 2 Sent. 1 UmwStG" costs of the transfer of assets"?,
Deutsches Steuerrecht 2020, p. 2844 - 2948 (together with Patriz Ergenzinger) [in German]
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