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Career

Ready to Rise? Whether you’re a young professional at the start of your career, an experienced advisor or a back-office employee. POELLATH is constantly looking for talents and ambitious employees to strengthen our team.

We offer a top training program in a culturally diverse environment, equal opportunities, good promotion prospects, flexible working hours and an above-average salary. In our market-leading, international business and tax law firm, entrepreneurship and partnership are practiced just as much as commitment and sustainability.

Take a step to becoming a successful business lawyer / tax advisor and optimize your talents. Working at POELLATH will be a challenging but rewarding next step in your career.

Culture

POELLATH is shaped by our employees. We are all unique, but have the same values and like to work within a team. We strive for professional and humane excellence, show team spirit and passion for our work. We live a friendly, open-minded and cooperative working environment. This kind of cooperation defines us and forms a friendly working basis that goes beyond the daily collective lunch. Business in good company! Cultural diversity, integration and equal opportunities are matters of principle for us. Equality and Diversity!

Excellence

We do not advise in all areas, but always in the high-end sector. The quality of our work is not only reflected in our ability to grasp legal issues. Rather, clients appreciate our economic solutions based on sound legal and tax advice. This makes our work complex, but at the same time very versatile. For economic success and the best work product, we are always on hand.

We do not advise in all areas, but always in the high-end sector.

Team spirit

Our work is demanding and often time-consuming. This makes it all the more important to act as a team, to divide work within the team and to work hand in hand. We work in agile teams. Our experts are well-connected and supervise projects together. With us you will be integrated immediately and learn on-the-job. Your team will support you with help and advice, but will give you the necessary personal freedom. We strengthen our team spirit at joint team events, sporting events, celebrations and trips. We maintain a friendly and not just a collegial relationship with each other.

We maintain a friendly and not just collegial relationship with each other.

Passion

Excellence and passion are flip sides of the same coin. We work passionately and are interested in economic connections and our own entrepreneurship. Our remuneration systems ensure that the passion for the job pays off. At the same time, POELLATH supports our employees in matters that go beyond the professional framework. POELLATH beyond!

We work passionately - POELLATH Beyond!
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Career for Women

POELLATH stands for equality. That is why we promote the ongoing development of our employees, advisors and leaders. We pay attention to a balanced structure of our teams. For us, promotion is based on professional aptitude and not on gender. If necessary, we create flexible working conditions together to find a solution for every challenge in life. Compared to other law firms, our partnership has an above-average quota of female employees. With initiatives such as Ladies Lunch and Ladies Day, we are working to improve this quota even further. 

Diversity

Diversity & Inclusion

We all learn from each other. The way we deal with each other at POELLATH reflects who we are and what we stand for. Equal values and diversity are not contradictory. Our workplace is inclusive and everyone is treated with respect. This includes an open, supportive and positive environment. Origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and individual limitations are enriching for us. Hate and discrimination are do not have any place in our partnership.

 

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We have compiled our values and the most important aspects of our work together - from respect, tolerance and commitment to excellence, service and support to health and environmental protection - in a Code of Conduct as the basis for our actions in the POELLATH team.

Skills

POELLATH stands for market-leading expertise in high-end transactions and asset management. Here we offer multidisciplinary legal and tax advice in areas that are rarely part of a university education. You need good legal craftsmanship, the desire to try your hand at something and demand excellence of yourself. If this is the case, you are in the right place with us. We support the skills you have already acquired and give you the finishing touches with our individual training program. Interested?

Your Skills

Ihre Skills
  • Expertise - Above-average performance in both exams is the basis of your professional expertise and is therefore generally preferred. A doctorate and/or a completed master's degree are not required, but are welcome. These qualifications can also be acquired in part-time programs at and with POELLATH.
  • Language skills - A large part of our work takes place in an international market environment. Comprehensive knowledge of English is therefore desirable.
  • Personality - There is no typical POELLATH professional. Rather, we look for:
    Interesting personalities | team players | communication talents | energetic | motivated | committed | people with determination
  • Personal excellence - We value a level-headed approach to each other and in relation to the outside world. Our clients appreciate our sporting ambition and our pusuit of excellence, as well as our sound judgment and prudence. Our standard is to give our best every day and to act in an exemplary manner.

Our Offers

Unsere Angebote
  • Top training opportunity - Our new recruits learn on-the-job. We encourage our employees to take part in professional training and continuing education programs. In the first three years of their careers, each advisor is expected to complete 600 hours of continuing training. There are many opportunities to do so.
  • Master’s degree - For continuing education through our practice-oriented postgraduate programs (LL.M./ EMBA) at the University of Münster. Wanderlust: Master’s programs abroad are also welcome. We will support you from establishing contacts with international universities to letters of recommendation and individualized working schedule agreements.
  • Practical insights - Many of our advisors do secondments in other law firms or in companies of our clients. You will gain valuable insights into companies or establish contacts with friendly law firms.
  • Non-legal skills - In our four-year Non-legal Skills Program, you will learn everything that is required of you in addition to professional excellence. Project management, presentation techniques, negotiations with clients, self-management, leadership techniques, business development and the evolution of entrepreneurial skills, as well as the development of social competence – all these things make you an excellent advisor.
  • Personal exchange - We learn from each other. In our internal mentoring program you will receive individualized feedback and will be introduced to our daily work routine by experienced colleagues. Meetings with all offices, training sessions and events, such as the annual training weekend and monthly jour fixes. Each event offers plenty of opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues at every career level. We see ourselves as a team where knowledge and experience are shared.
Balance
Balance

We work hard! Excellent service for our clients is our focus. That makes some work days long. Nevertheless, we do not want to throw your life out of balance. Whether you want to start a family, play your favorite sport regularly or travel around the world: Your career at POELLATH makes it possible.

Familie

Family

No either/or: With us, career and family are compatible. Supported by POELLATH? Sure! In addition to our cooperation with bilingual kindergartens and elementary schools, we offer many flexible work solutions. What if the kindergarten is closed but the client wants to see you? In case of an emergency, our cooks are also happy about active support from little helpers. Valuable tips for healthy eating are also included. For children, we regularly organize events like children’s Christmas parties or creative workshops.

Flexibilität

Flexibility

Flexible working hours. Part-time work. Parental leave for mothers and fathers. Sabbaticals. We live with these concepts. POELLATH offers a solution for every life situation. Home office? Work on the road? The 40-hour week? In agreement with your team, everything is possible. POELLATH provides the technical infrastructure.

Achtsamkeit

Mindfulness

Mindfulness - perceiving the here and now more consciously: It leads to inner peace, reduces stress and makes us more satisfied. We care about the health of each individual. That is why we offer regular mindfulness workshops and various sports courses, such as yoga or jogging groups. Mindfulness also includes our gratis, healthy and sustainable all-around catering. Our cooks and trainers are among the best in their professions and take care of your health.

YOU

Colleagues and mentors at the top of their fields. Exciting mandates. Contact with interesting people and companies. Teamwork. New challenges every day. Flat hierarchies. Open-door policy. Gratis meals. This could also become your life.

At POELLATH you will find a number of career opportunities. Whether you respond to a specific job advertisement or on your own initiative. We are always looking for new, excellent and committed employees to expand our team.

Internship, research assistantship & traineeship

Interns, research assistants and trainee lawyers also work with us on-the-job. You work in small teams with permanently assigned partners and mentors. Gratis meals and participation in most of the training programs are at your disposal.

Administration

Are you interested in an administrative job in a successful law firm? Working on our team has many facets. Whether as an assistant, IT administrator or service assistant, we are always looking for committed employees with a great deal of initiative. Become a full-fledged member of our team.

Experience reports

Antonia Nabavi

The special POELLATH drive - from research assistant to lawyer

Antonia Puglisi

Associate, Private Funds, Berlin

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At POELLATH counts: Career through cooperation instead of against each other

Raphael Baumgartner

Counsel, Tax Law, Munich

In the spotlight

Here we introduce you to the people behind the names. Briefly and to the point. Our professionals are each asked three questions about their work, career and private life, and reveal to you what keeps them busy, fascinated and driven every day.

Dr. Claudia Bracken (Associate)

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What do you think is the most exciting topic on the market right now?

“In the private clients area, we are currently particularly concerned with the legal tightening in the area of so-called exit taxation, which will apply to exits as of January 1, 2022 and will make the intra-European mobility of many shareholders more difficult. The Federal Ministry of Finance recently published the draft of the new application decree for the Foreign Tax Act. It therefore remains to be seen how the tax authorities will handle the tightening in concrete terms after publication of the final application decree.”

What developments in your industry are you currently concerned about?

“There is a clear tendency toward overregulation through broad-based information, documentation and testing obligations that overshoot the actual legislative goal and whose fulfillment is increasingly only possible with disproportionate effort.”

What are the qualities of a good lawyer?

“In addition to the indispensable professional competence, the willingness to recognize and understand the thoughts and motives of the other party is indispensable. This applies to the exchange with one's own client as well as with the negotiating partner. The triad of competence, empathy and result orientation is what makes a good lawyer for me.”

Erik Muscheites (Counsel)

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What developments in your industry are you currently concerned about?

“The permanently increasing complexity and unfairness of the tax system. Real simplifications in the tax system are urgently needed, also to counteract a creeping undermining of legitimacy.”

What advice would you give to people starting their careers today?

“Decide on a profession and a specialization that really interests you from the heart. If that’s the case and you’re ‘on fire’ for your field, sooner or later you'll be successful professionally.”

What is a good work-life balance for you?

“When I can organize my working hours and my place of work as freely as possible. That gives me the opportunity to ‘reconcile’ as many challenges as possible.”

“The best overall package on the entire market”
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“Outstanding working conditions and always a sympathetic ear”
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“Lots of freedom for self-development, independent acquisition goals and the opportunity to test yourself”
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“Actively promoting home office by providing high-end IT hardware”
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“The employees’ motivation is impressive.”
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“comparatively more relaxed working hours with Champions League salary and unbelievably correct colleagues”
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“Multi-faceted consulting firm with challenging, very specific projects.”
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“Quite honestly, there is no better overall package at this pay grade and work environment.”
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“Great firm because you are taken seriously from the very beginning.”
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Jobs

Here you can find our current job openings - we are looking forward to receiving your application! It doesn’t matter whether you are responding to a specific job ad or sending us a general openings  application. We are continually looking for new, exceptional and committed employees to expand our team.

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Berlin auf dunkelblauem Hintergrund

Would you like to experience the flair of the capital and be close to the city? In Berlin, we are currently filling positions in the following areas:

 

Attorneys-at-Law real estate transactions
Attorney-at-Law private funds
Research assistant private funds with focus on private equity/venture capital funds
Research assistant private funds with focus on private equity funds and institutional investors

Frankfurt auf hellblauem Hintergrund

Become part of our team! At our Frankfurt location, we are looking for talented and ambitious minds for the following practice areas:

Munich auf grauem Hintergrund

Are you drawn to the south? Then our Munich team is the right choice for you. We are seeking reinforcements in these areas:

Attorneys-at-Law venture capital
Attorneys-at-Law mergers & acquisitions
Tax advisor in private equity tax
Tax advisor in private equity/M&A tax

Regardless of which location you choose, what is important to us is your ambition, team spirit, thirst for knowledge and having fun. We will provide you with the rest - career beginners and trainees are very welcome!

Legal Recruiting

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Lara Reifenschneider
Senior Legal Recruiter
+ 49 (89) 24240-144 call
Ansprechpartner
Alicia Hänsel
Junior Legal Recruiter
+49 (89) 24240-123 call

Further Vacancies

Back Office Recruiting

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Lisa Berger
HR Manager
+49 (89) 24240-143 call
Ansprechpartner
Linda Schneller
HR Generalist Berlin
+49 (30) 25353-640 call

Human Resources Management

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Iris Mai
HR Director
+49 (89) 24240-122 call