Consultants

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Dr. Verena Alvez Mesa
Solicitor

  • Author on customs law

Your consultant for

  • Customs law
  • Rules of origin and VAT law
  • Consultation regarding the introduction of the Authorized Economic Operator
  • Implementation, optimization and re-organization of operations to ensure compliance with foreign trade law
  • Representation in customs matters vis-á-vis customs authorities and fiscal courts

Dipl.-Kfm., Dipl.-Finanzwirt
Andreas Beckmann
Managing Partner

  • Former official in the German Customs Authority
  • Lecturer at the AWA
  • Contributor to the AW-Prax series

Your consultant for

  • Implementing and optimizing operations to ensure compliance with regulations relating to foreign trade
  • Process structuring and supply chain management
  • Export procedures
  • Customs law
  • Law relating to the origin of goods and preferential treatment
  • Value Added Tax and excise


Sebastian Billig
Solicitor

  • Former consultant at KPMG (Munich), Customs & Trade
  • Expert in export controls at the Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH in Hamburg
  • Trainer at the AWA AUSSENWIRTSCHAFTS-AKADEMIE GmbH
  • Author on customs law

Your consultant for

  • Implementation and optimization of operational measures ensuring compliance with export and customs requirements
  • Structuring processes and supply chain management
  • Export procedure
  • Customs law
  • Consultation in relation to the Authorized Economic Operator (ZWB/AEO)


Dr. Nathalie Harksen
Solicitor, Maître en droit

  • Lecturer at the AWA
  • Contributor to the AW-Prax

Your consultant for

  • Customs and foreign trade law
  • Value Added Tax and excise
  • The law on the origin of goods and preferential treatment


Dr. Friedrich Helmert
Managing Partner

  • Managing Partner, HLB Dr. Schumacher & Partner GmbH
  • Solicitor
  • Tax Advisor
  • Auditor

Your consultant for

  • Contract law
  • International tax law
  • Audits
  • Taxation Offences
  • Law on accounting

Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH)
Annette Kohl

  • Formerly employed at Ernst & Young GmbH in Eschborn/Frankfurt as a consultant in customs and VAT law
  • Degree in international business and foreign trade at the University of Applied Sciences at Worms and the Universidad de Alicante

Your consultant for

  • Support in the certification as Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) and the monitoring process
  • Implementation and optimization of operations with a view to complying with legal requirements of foreign trade
  • Optimization of import duties by structuring the customs and VAT aspects of the supply chain
  • VAT law

Dipl.-jur.
Matthias Merz
Managing Partner

  • AWA lecturer on export control law and U.S. export control law
  • Senior Consultant, MK Technology (Washington D.C.)
  • Contributor to the AW-Prax

Your consultant for

  • Implementing and optimizing operations to ensure compliance with provisions relating to export and customs
  • Process structuring and supply chain management
  • Export procedures
  • Customs law


Hans-Georg Moritz
Freelance Trainer and Corporate Consultant

  • Former export controls officer at Infineon Technologies AG
  • Former export controls officer at Siemens AG, for power generation and semi-conductors
  • Freelance trainer at the AWA AUSSENWIRTSCHAFTS-AKADEMIE GmbH
  • Senior Consultant at the AWB STEUERBERATUNGSGESELLSCHAFT mbH

Your consultant for

  • Advice in the structuring of internal control programmes for customs and export controls in companies
  • Implementing and optimizing processes to ensure compliance with provisions relating to export and customs
  • Specialist seminars, in-house training and corporate consultation on export controls and customs
  • Specialist audits to determine the compliance status of companies with regard to export controls and customs


Simon Vischer
Solicitor

  • Author on foreign trade law

Your consultant for

  • Foreign trade law
  • Implementation and optimization of operational measures ensuring compliance with export and customs requirements
  • Excise duties
  • Representation before authorities and courts in matters relating to foreign trade and excise duties


Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Wolffgang
Managing Partner

  • Professor at the Institute for Tax Law, Münster University
  • Tax Advisor
  • Judge at the Fiscal Court (retd.)
  • Lecturer at the AWA
  • Editor of the AW-Prax
  • Author of literature on customs and export control law
  • Senior Advisor, MK Technology (Washington D. C.)

Your consultant for

  • Customs and foreign trade law
  • Value Added Tax and excise
  • Origin of goods and the law on preferences