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HENNING-G. WIND

HENINNG-G. WIND, LL.M.

Tax consultant – Mediator – Partner

Born and raised, Henning-G. Wind in Bünde (Westphalia, Germany). The graduate in finance and Master of Laws has already been on the floor of the finance and tax industry in his younger years. After his studies at the universities of Osnabrück, Leuven and Tilburg, his path quickly led him to Frankfurt am Main to the well-known companies in the industry. Many years of successful activities with the corresponding references finally led consequently to the own company at the location Frankfurt am Main. He has never lost sight of his international focus. As a typical networker, it is important to him to always achieve the optimal result for his clientele.

Trust and proximity play an important role in this, says Henning-G. Wind. For his foreign clientele, Henning-G. Wind bridge as well as eyes and ears on site at the same time. He is a trusted contact and passionate representative of his clients’ interests. In this regard, he looks back on many years of experience as a party representative in transactions, contract negotiations, succession planning, tax audits as well as judicial and extrajudicial appeal proceedings. The experienced consultant has also mastered the claviature of all-party conflict resolution and mediation as well as coaching. Jointly developed strategies lead to the desired goals.

Main areas of activity

  • National and international tax law
  • Inbound and Private Equity Investments
  • Hedge and Private Equity Funds
  • Real estate funds and real estate tax law
  • Medium-sized business consulting
  • Structuring and design consulting
  • Enforcement consulting, tax support during company and tax investigation audits
  • Tax advice in insolvency and enforcement cases
  • Out-of-court and in-court appeal proceedings, litigation before fiscal courts, the Federal Fiscal Court and the ECJ
  • Transaction consulting and contract negotiations, incl. tax due diligence
  • Withholding tax refunds and exemptions, advice on tax residency and double taxation agreements
  • VAT consulting in national and international transactions
  • Succession consulting
  • Conflict resolution, mediation

Qualifications

  • Dipl.-Finanzwirt University of Applied Sciences for Finance NRW, Nordkirchen
  • Institute for Finance and Tax Law at the University of Osnabrück
  • EUCOTAX Delegation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Master of Laws:
    International and European tax law
    - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium &
    Tilburg University, Netherlands
  • Business Mediator MAY Academy, Frankfurt am Main

Career

  • Financial Administration of the State of NRW, esp. Appeals Office
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Frankfurt am Main
  • Strategic Value Partners, Frankfurt am Main
  • Partner at Ebner Stolz, Stuttgart
  • Chairman Global Real Estate Special Interest Group NEXIA International
  • Founding partner at Wind & Meintrup, Frankfurt am Main
  • Cooperation with MAY und Partner, Attorneys Mediators, Frankfurt am Main

Memberships

  • Chamber of Tax Consultants Hesse AöR
  • International Fiscal Association - IfA
  • Berliner Steuergespräche e. V.
  • Hamburg Association for International Tax Law e. V.
  • Westfälischer Steuerkreis e. V.
  • Urban Land Institute
  • American Chamber of Commerce e.  V.
  • Initiator German-American Forum for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Lecturing activities (excerpt)

  • Harvard Business Club of New York, New York
  • NEXIA International Real Estate SIG Conference, Boston, Miami, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen
  • EBS Real Estate Congress
  • International Real Estate Day CBBL Forum
  • Securities News Seminars
  • C.H. Beck Seminars
  • Speaker at round table discussion series of a major international bank on wealth investment and succession planning

Publications (excerpt)

  • Wind / Fritz in: Weitnauer / Boxberger / Anders, KAGB, C. H. Beck Verlag (3rd edition 2021)
  • Heyd / Kautenburger-Behr / Wind (eds.), Bilanzierung und Besteuerung in Insolvenz und Krise, C. H. Beck Verlag (2019)
  • Wind, Internationales Immobiliengeschäft - Keine Steuer auf Scheingewinne und andere Obskuritäten, discussion of the influence of tax case law on real estate investments, in particular shareholder debt financing, Immobilien & Finanzierung, issue 12/2017, p. 415 et seq.
  • Wind, "Usual" - and therefore tax-free? - Discussion BFH ruling on shopping centers, Immobilien Manager, Issue 4/2017, p. 56 ff.
  • Wind / Kaufmann, Renditefaktor Umsatzsteuer - Einfluss steuerlicher Fragestellungen auf Immobilientransaktionen, Immobilien Manager, Issue 9/2011, p. 82 et seq.