Thomas Schmidt deals with domestic and international corporate tax issues, with particular emphasis on structuring public and private company acquisitions, corporate reorganizations as well as corporate financing transactions.

Thomas Schmidt also advises on tax issues relating to real estate, banking and structured finance transactions and has acted for domestic and overseas lenders and borrowers in domestic and cross border transactions. His experience covers international tax planning for companies as well as private clients.

Thomas Schmidt lectures international tax law at the Wiesbaden Business School. He is a member of the international White & Case REITs Group.

Bars and Courts
Tax Lawyer, 2011
Tax Advisor, 2009
Rechtsanwalt, 2006

Education
LLM, University College Dublin, 2003
First State Exam, University of Bayreuth, 2002
Higher Diploma in Business Studies, University of Bayreuth, 2001
Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, 2006

Professional Associations and Memberships
International Fiscal Association
German Association of Tax Advisers
German-Irish Lawyers Association
German-American Lawyers' Association

Publications
Co-author, "Tax Treatment of Collaterals in Company Groups (Sicherheitengestellung im Konzern)", IStR, Issue 2, Page 42 et. seqq., 2012 (with Andreas Knebel and Klaus Sabel)
Co-author, "Tax Advantage Deductions on Punitive Claims from Investments in Media and Shipping Funds (Anrechnung von Steuervorteilen auf Schadensersatzansprüche aus Beteiligungen an Medien- und Schiffsfonds)," BB, Issue 22, Pages 1316-1320, 2010 (with Andreas Knebel)
Co-author, "Practical issues of external accounting during insol-vency (Praxisfragen der externen Rechnungslegung in der Insol-venz)," BB, Page 654–658, 2009 (with Dirk Eisolt)
Co-author, "How to improve equity during the financial crisis (Gestaltungen zur Eigenkapital-Optimierung vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzkrise)," BB, Issue 9, Pages 430-434, 2009 (with Andreas Knebel)
Co-author, "Tax aspects of G-REITs–Taxation of an REIT stock corporation and its shareholders (Steuerliche Aspekte von G-REITs–Besteuerung einer REIT-Aktiengesellschaft und ihrer Aktionäre)," Handbuch Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Ed. Stephan Bonewinkel, Wolfgang Schäfers and Karl-Werner Schulte. 1st ed., Cologne, 2008 (with Josef Große Honebrink)

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Languages
German
English
Russian
French

Citizenship
Germany