Dr. Klaus Olbing

Lawyer

Certified Specialist in Tax Law

Berlin

+49 30 89 38 44 - 15

klaus.olbing@streck.net

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Partner since:
1997

Lawyer since:
1993

Born:
1962

Languages:
German, English, French

Family status:
Married, four children

Studied in:
Bonn, Geneva, Zurich, Vienna und Hamburg
Dissertation on insolvency law

Other:

Member of the Insolvency Law Committee and Chair of the Tax Law Committee of the German Bar Association

Expertise

Tax disputes
Tax investigation

Competence

Insolvency tax law

My path to Streck Mack Schwedhelm

For me, it didn’t begin with a targeted decision. I had graduated with a doctorate in insolvency law. My elective traineeship shortly after German reunification saw me working in the new eastern federal states for a large auditing firm that had been charged by the ‘Treuhandanstalt’ with examining which former East German companies needed to be liquidated. I soon recognised that without a grounding in accounting and tax law, it would not be possible to decide which method (restructuring, sale, conversion, liquidation) would be right for each company and its shareholders. I had no knowledge of these legal areas. My instructor referred me to a job vacancy at the Streck Rainer law firm, as it was then called – a firm that at that time was quite unknown to me. In preparing for my interview, I soon realised what a unique opportunity I had been presented with: Legal work at the highest level in an extremely collaborative atmosphere. I’m thankful for having been given this opportunity, despite the fact that I had no significant knowledge of tax law.