Practice
Katharina works as a lawyer and tax consultant within the entire range of the private client business. She advises her clients, among other things, on estate and succession planning, marriage and inheritance contracts, as well as questions of relocation and exit taxation. A major part of her work focuses on structures with cross-border implications. She regularly speaks on private client matters at international conferences (e.g. IBA) and has been listed as “One to Watch” in Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite. Her clients appreciate her empathetic and engaging manner, as well as her assertive negotiating skills.
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CV
- Joined POELLATH in 2012
- Admitted to bar in 2012; admitted as tax advisor in 2014
- Law School and Ph.D. in Hamburg (Bucerius Law School), Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Osnabrueck (LL.M. Taxation 2008)
Languages
German, English
“The biggest success story of the private clients practice is the expansion of the Frankf[urt] office: One of the reasons for the appointment of a young partner, who is in charge of this mandate, was to advise a family of entrepreneurs worth € million with over 200 shareholders on succession planning.”
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/24
“With her unstinting effort, her poise and her professionalism she brought the case to a timely and successful closure.”
US client with reference to Germany
“The biggest success story of the private clients practice is the expansion of the Frankf[urt] office: One of the reasons for the appointment of a young partner, who is in charge of this mandate, was to advise a family of entrepreneurs worth € million with over 200 shareholders on succession planning.”
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/24
“With her unstinting effort, her poise and her professionalism she brought the case to a timely and successful closure.”
US client with reference to Germany
11.10.2024
Potential Double Taxation of Distributions from a Foreign Trust
2024
Private Client 2024: Chapter Germany
17.01.2024
German exit tax when moving to Switzerland – The new “Wächtler” decision of the BFH
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Awards
katharina.hemmen@pplaw.com
+49 (69) 247047-34
+49 (69) 247047-30
Assistant:
Birgit Nettelrodt, Dr. Kevin Bücking