Christian Ruoff | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

“One of the best tax lawyers in Germany”

Competitor testimony, JUVE Handbook Tax 2019
Dr. Christian Ruoff, パートナー
Mergers and acquisitions | Restructuring and capital solutions | Tax

Hamburg

Hohe Bleichen 7
20354 Hamburg

T +49 40 36 90 60
F +49 40 36 90 61 55

christian.ruoff@freshfields.com

Christian specialises in the tax structuring of acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, private equity and real estate transactions as well as providing tax advice to family-owned businesses.

He is known for developing creative and innovative structures that minimise tax and tax risk, while protecting against tax authority challenges.

Clients turn to him when they have large-scale mandates requiring cutting-edge tax advice often in the context of multijurisdictional transactions.

Part of his skill is his ability to integrate tax structuring advice seamlessly – even in the most complex of transactions.

Christian speaks German and English.

Advising Continental AG on complex reorganisations (inter alia, relating to the separation of the Vitesco business) from a tax perspective.
Providing tax advice to Merck on the sale of its consumer health business to Procter & Gamble. (≈ EUR 3.5 bn)
Advising Takata on the tax structuring and other tax aspects of the EMEA part of its worldwide restructuring.
Providing tax advice on Maersk's acquisition of Hamburg Süd. (≈ EUR 3.5 bn)
Advising Boehringer Ingelheim on the swap of its consumer health care business with the animal health business of Sanofi. (≈ EUR 18 bn)
Advising on the tax structuring of various complex reorganisations of several family-owned groups of companies.

Education

University of Munich, Germany (Dr. jur.)
Duke University, US (LLM)

Professional qualifications

Tax advisor, Germany
Tax lawyer, Germany
Attorney-at-law, Hamburg, Germany and New York, US

Professional memberships

Advisory board of the Hamburg Forum for Enterprise Taxation, Germany (chairman)

Additional responsibilities

Chairs a panel on corporate/transformation tax at the annual conference of the Hamburg Forum for Enterprise Taxation at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
Lecturer on corporate tax law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg

Hohe Bleichen 7
20354 Hamburg

T +49 40 36 90 60
F +49 40 36 90 61 55

christian.ruoff@freshfields.com

One of the best tax lawyers in Germany

Competitor testimony, JUVE Handbook Tax 2019

Tax lawyer of the year in Germany

Handelsblatt Best Lawyers 2019

Listed as one of the leading 20 German tax partners

JUVE 2015/2016, JUVE 2016/2017

Very precise and diligent advisor with overwhelming expertise and experience

Competitor testimony, JUVE Handbook Tax 2020

Recommended for tax

JUVE Handbook Tax 2018, 2019, 2020; Chambers 2020; Who's Who Legal 2020

Publications

Enterprise Taxation, second edition, 2017 (eds. Lüdicke, Sistermann) Spin-offs and split-ups of corporations into corporations (co-author with Michael Tommaso)
Law of Debentures, 2017 (eds. Hopt/Seibt) Chapter 10: Tax law (including restructuring on the basis of the Debenture Act); Chapter 13: Tax aspects relating to restructurings of debentures outside the scope of the Debenture Act
Honorary publication on the occasion of the retirement of Dietmar Gosch, 2016 Section 50i of the German Income Tax Act - A critical analysis of the amendments in the ‘Croatia Alignment Act’
DStR 2015, 609 The income tax treatment of disproportionate split-ups and spin-offs of corporations (co-author with David Beutel)
Co-editor of and author in Schneider/Ruoff/Sistermann German Transformation Tax Act Decree 2011 (2012)

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Publications

Enterprise Taxation, second edition, 2017 (eds. Lüdicke, Sistermann) Spin-offs and split-ups of corporations into corporations (co-author with Michael Tommaso)

Law of Debentures, 2017 (eds. Hopt/Seibt) Chapter 10: Tax law (including restructuring on the basis of the Debenture Act); Chapter 13: Tax aspects relating to restructurings of debentures outside the scope of the Debenture Act

Honorary publication on the occasion of the retirement of Dietmar Gosch, 2016 Section 50i of the German Income Tax Act - A critical analysis of the amendments in the ‘Croatia Alignment Act’

DStR 2015, 609 The income tax treatment of disproportionate split-ups and spin-offs of corporations (co-author with David Beutel)

Co-editor of and author in Schneider/Ruoff/Sistermann German Transformation Tax Act Decree 2011 (2012)

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Publications

Enterprise Taxation, second edition, 2017 (eds. Lüdicke, Sistermann) Spin-offs and split-ups of corporations into corporations (co-author with Michael Tommaso)

Law of Debentures, 2017 (eds. Hopt/Seibt) Chapter 10: Tax law (including restructuring on the basis of the Debenture Act); Chapter 13: Tax aspects relating to restructurings of debentures outside the scope of the Debenture Act

Honorary publication on the occasion of the retirement of Dietmar Gosch, 2016 Section 50i of the German Income Tax Act - A critical analysis of the amendments in the ‘Croatia Alignment Act’

DStR 2015, 609 The income tax treatment of disproportionate split-ups and spin-offs of corporations (co-author with David Beutel)

Co-editor of and author in Schneider/Ruoff/Sistermann German Transformation Tax Act Decree 2011 (2012)

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アジア太平洋

中東

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