DAVID

Based in Frankfurt (Germany), attorney-at-law and certified tax advisor Dr. David Witzel advises multinational companies and their shareholders with respect to all corporate law and tax law matters.  He has extensive experience in the areas of estate planning, M&A transactions and international tax structuring.

In particular, Dr. David Witzel’s expertise includes counselling on private equity, real estate and all legal issues in connection with the structuring of estates and investments.  Notably, he has advised Asian families on their investments into Germany, family offices (from the US and Germany) on estate and succession planning involving Asian assets, US multinational corporations in respect of international tax structuring matters including their Asian operations, and various co-founders of an Asian e-commerce giant on their participation in stock incentive programs.

Concurrently with his role as special counsel to KYT, Dr. David Witzel is the founding partner of the German law firm Dr. Witzel & Partner in Frankfurt (www.witzel-law.com). 

Previously, he was a lawyer at among others US law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and KPMG for many years.  Dr. Witzel is co-author of several tax handbooks and publishes articles in reputed law and tax journals.  Moreover, he holds lectures on different occasions at universities.

Dr. Witzel studied at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and he made his clerkship in Berlin before he finalized his PhD.  Subsequently, he studied at the University of Sydney where he achieved a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree.

E-mail: david@kyimtax.com

Tel: +49 69 3487 42310