2018 Legal Awards

6 Acquisition International - 2018 Legal Awards LA180019 Best Tax Law Consultancy - Germany JC Kling JC Kling is an innovative legal practice comprising of charted accountants, lawyers and tax consultants, who together cover all the areas of consultation in legal, tax-related and economic environments. Besides the classical sectors, the firm also offer asset management, consulting, mediation and coaching, and can thus assist with consultation for the entire scope of business management. Jan-Christopher outlines the firm’s approach to supporting its varied clientele and how it aims to offer each client a tailored approach. Supporting a range of clients, the firm operates across the full spectrum of tax and accounting law, as Jan-Christoph explains. “The major areas of activity of our company are tax configuration consultation, and thanks to our tax expertise we also undertake the accompaniment of tax audits and representation in fiscal court proceedings, the complete support of companies, from foundation, purchase and sale, configuration and succession advice. In this context we of course also carry out due diligence checks to ensure excellence for our clients, who are predominantly owner-managed businesses. We also advise internationally globally operating stock-exchange listed companies. Moreover, we are also active in the area of the public sector, particularly in the areas of non-profit organizations and research institutions.” In his concluding comments Jan-Christopher discusses how his firm’s boutique structure and dedication to client services have led it to the success it enjoys currently and will help drive it to even greater success over the years ahead. “Fundamentally, at JC Kling we differ from our competitors because while in our understanding having the same broad specialist knowledge, we are flexible and can act at lower cost and shorter processing times because of our structure. In particular, medium sized companies value this ability, because as we are not focussed on providing the maximum number of consultation hours, but focus on the goal in order to manage the mandate on the long term and in the best case be a companion and contact person for all legal, financial and tax matters for decades. For this purpose, we have a matrix structure in the company which enables the client to get an appropriate contact partner and further employees in the team who can accordingly act for him. This flexibility, structure and collaborative approach will remain central to our focus as we look towards a bright future, which we hope will revolve around supporting even more clients and providing them with solutions they can come to rely on.” Specialising in accounting and tax law, JC Kling supports a range of clients from its offices in Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt. As we showcase a selection of this years’ AI Legal Awards we caught up with Founder Dr. Jan-Christopher Kling to gain an insight into how far his firm has come over the past 12 months. Company: JC Kling Contact: Dr. Jan-Christopher Kling Address: Fischerstrasse 11, Kaiserslautern, DE-67655, Germany Phone: 0049 49 631 362 39 Website: www.jckling.de “Here at JC Kling, our approach is to have an overall observation of the type of consultation required. It is not only the legal solution or consequence of a case that is presented, but rather a consideration of the overall economy. We in particular check the possibility of gaining advantages from the resulting problems and finding a solution without large legal disputes, which leads to the business basis remaining in place, and the clients and their opposing party can continue with their business relationships, which are often very longstanding.”