Your partner for corporate tax law

Hans-Wolfram Dunckel knows how business works - in theory and in practice. During his apprenticeship as a chemist in the 1980s, Hans-Wolfram Dunckel - who was born in Berlin-Spandau - also studied business administration at the Free University of Berlin, with a focus on tax law and auditing. After completing his studies, the business graduate applied and expanded his knowledge at a medium-sized auditing firm, where he specialised in advising and auditing non-profit companies and real estate funds.

To round off his knowledge, he passed the tax advisor exam in 1989. After being appointed tax advisor, he moved to Berlintax (at that time still Schnoeckel und Partner Steuerberatungsgesellschaft). A year later, he was appointed partner at the law firm and became a mainstay of the company. He developed the real estate fund division in the law firm for many years, and brings his extensive practical knowledge of real estate and partnership taxation to his clients' advice.

Markus Frank is a highly trained jurist and has been working as a lawyer primarily for entrepreneurs for over 20 years. He has been a specialist lawyer for tax law since 2003 and a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law since 2007. Markus Frank's particular strength lies in corporate and asset succession, corporate acquisitions and strategic advice to medium-sized companies.

Markus Frank has also been a certified supervisory board member (SHB) since 2017. For many years, he has been sharing this experience with a large number of (family) companies as chairman of advisory and supervisory boards.

Career: Markus Frank, born in Bremen in 1965, came to Berlin to study and do his legal clerkship. During that time, he was a research assistant to lawyer Prof. Dr. Benno Heussen. In 1999, he founded the law firm Gentz und Partner Rechtsanwälte, Steuerberater, Notare. Since 2019, he has also been the managing partner of Berlintax.

Oliver Hagen is a passionate tax advisor - and has been so for over 20 years. After training in the financial administration of Lower Saxony, Oliver Hagen initially worked for several years at the regional finance office in Hanover. He then moved to the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF - Bonn / Berlin). At the Ministry, he acquired a broad knowledge of tax law across all types of tax in the economic policy department.

After passing his tax advisor exam in 2002, he decided to work in the private sector. Since then, Oliver Hagen has worked as a tax advisor to companies and private individuals in all tax and accounting law matters. His clients include small to medium-sized companies in the service sector, as well as manufacturers with a total of several thousand employees, companies in the public sector, hospital companies, welfare associations and much more.

Furthermore, Oliver Hagen advises companies of all sizes across Germany on wage tax law, and boasts ample experience in the sustainable and strategic alignment of remuneration models.

Kerstin Menz is a tax advisor through and through. She completed her apprenticeship as a tax assistant in the first tax consultancy firm that had established itself on the island of Rügen after the fall of the Wall. Following her practical training, Kerstin Menz studied business administration with a focus on business taxation and auditing at the Free University of Berlin, and graduated in 1998 with a degree in business administration.

After working for a tax consultancy firm in the north of Berlin for a number of years and working as an independent management consultant, Kerstin Menz moved to Gentz und Partner, and passed the tax consultant exam in 2009. For many years, she was a partner at the law firm with which she is still strategically and socially connected. Kerstin Menz has been a partner and managing director at Berlintax since 2020, and sets new quality standards in company accounting and tax advice.