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Prof. Dr. Alexander Hemmelrath joins WTS Executive Board

WTS Group is consistently pursuing its expansion strategy

Munich, 17 December 2010 – The renowned German tax law expert Prof. Dr. Alexander Hemmelrath and his team are joining the WTS Group. With this move WTS - one of the major German tax consulting firms - is expanding its service portfolio, in particular with regard to advice for private clients and owner-managed businesses but also in the field of transaction tax advice.

In February 2011 Prof. Dr. Alexander Hemmelrath and his team will join the WTS Group at the Munich office. Currently, he is still name partner of Mazars Hemmelrath as well as Hemmelrath & Partner/Marccus Partners.

The existing team around attorney-at-law Dr. Tom Offerhaus which renders services in the field of 'Private Clients & Non Profit Organisations' will be increased significantly to about ten highly-qualified and skilled employees. In this area of expertise falls, for instance, the advice of foundations and family offices as well as succession planning for entrepreneurs. The focus of Alexander Hemmelrath's team will be on comprehensive consulting services for owner-managed businesses as well as the support of entrepreneurial families in all tax and legal matters involving business succession and law of inheritance.

In the future this extended range of services concerning 'Private Clients & Non Profit Organisations' will be offered on the market by a separate entity called 'WTS Hemmelrath'.

In addition, Alexander Hemmelrath, who gives lectures in reorganisation tax law at the University of Osnabrück, will work in the field of transaction tax advice.

With this move WTS consistently pursues its strategy to attain a leading market position in all important areas of tax consulting. In the past few months the WTS Group had already visibly extended its expertise in the area of transaction tax and tax structuring advice by taking on Stefan Hölzemann, formerly Co-Head of Taxes at Noerr LLP. The team of Dr. Carsten Fischer, Dr. Bela Jansen and Dieter Lübbehüsen who recently joined the WTS Frankfurt office from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has attained a leading market position in asset management and all related regulatory and tax matters in Germany.

Together with the new signings WTS positions itself as a strategic partner of law firms for cooperation in tax and regulatory matters.

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WTS is an international consulting company with the divisions “Tax” and “Consulting”. The focus of the tax division lies on tax consulting for multinational corporations, national and international medium-sized companies as well as private individuals and non-profit organizations. In the business fields Investment Tax Law, M&A, Private Clients and Non-Profit Organizations, WTS has recently been able to expand the range of our services significantly. With regard to the consulting division, WTS specializes particularly in financial advisory as well as national and international accounting services. Employing more than 400 people and having representations in over 90 countries, WTS ranks among the major international tax consulting companies. WTS solely offers tax and business services consulting without auditing services in order to avoid any conflict of interest between consultancy and audit.

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