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Prof. Dr. Arndt Raupach is of counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP based in its Munich office. He is a member of the Tax Department, where his practice focuses on German, international and European tax law regarding partnerships and corporations, tax litigation before tax courts and the German Supreme Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof) and the European Court of Justice, integrated legal, tax and organization counseling of business enterprises, and the legal issues of the so-called "third area" (between state and economic system). As a licensed tax specialist (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht), Prof. Raupach's experience encompasses all fields of tax law.
After the tax inspector education in North Rhine-Westphalia, Prof. Raupach attended the Universities of Muenster and Munich and the University for Political Studies, Munich. He did his legal clerkship (Referendariat) at the Highest Bavarian Court in Munich with a legal stage at the tax counsel of the German Bundestag. Prof. Raupach earned his doctorate at the University of Munich, which was honored with the "Gerhard-Thoma-Ehrenpreis" (award of the Institute of Tax Advisers e.V., Cologne) in 1968.
Prior to joining the Firm, he was co-founder and partner (1970 - 1997) of the law firm of Rädler Raupach & Partner (later Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler), from 1998 until 2003 he served as managing director and head of the Munich office of Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and equity partner of the Big Four accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche.
He has been the head of the conference "Praxis des Internationalen Steuerrechts" (yearly conference of the Deutsches Anwaltsinstitut e.V.- German Association of Lawyers) since 1972, is one of the founding members of the German Tax Law Society (1975), chaired its Scientific Council from 2000 to 2003 and is currently the vice president of this organization. He is a member of the Business Law Council of the Deutscher Anwaltsverein (since 1989), Vice President of the Association of the Licensed Tax Specialists (since 1999) and member of International Bar Association (IBA).
Prof. Raupach has been a lecturer (since 1981) respectively honorary professor (since 1987) for tax law at the Legal Faculty of the University of Munich and was a lecturer at the Economic Faculty of the University of Frankfurt/Main (1993 - 2001). He regularly publishes articles and speaks on a wide range of tax issues. He is head-editor of the leading German commentary on individual and corporate income tax (Herrmann/Heuer/Raupach) and co-editor of the law journals: Steuer- und Wirtschaft (StuW), Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) and Zeitschrift für Sport und Recht (SpuRt).
Education
University of Münster
University of Munich
Languages Spoken
English
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