Expertise
Dr. Anders Kraft is a partner in our tax practice and heads our German tax team. Anders is a tax advisor (Steuerberater) and focuses on providing tax advice on a wide range of national and cross-border matters in the context of M&A and private equity as well as financing and capital markets transactions. He also advises on internal reorganisations, general tax planning and tax disputes.
Anders has been recognised by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers as one of the leading lawyers in Germany for Tax Law as part of the "Germany's Best Lawyers 2021" ranking.
- Experience
Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Anders worked for UK and US based international law firms. His experience at Addleshaw and his previous firm includes:
- Deutsche Bank on tax aspects of a M&A transaction
- AEW on tax aspects of the acquisition of the office building "Baseler Palais" in Frankfurt on behalf of its real estate special fund "AEW Europe Value Investors II"
- Idinvest Partners S.A. on tax aspects as lender in a unitrache financing for the acquisition of netgo group by Waterland Private Equity Dorea GmbH
- Apollo Global Management in connection with the acquisition of KBC Bank
- Bank of Ireland and Commerzbank AG as finance parties on the acquisition of 7 days HoldCo GmbH group by funds managed by private equity investors Chequers Capital and Paragon Partners from Silverfleet Capital
- Certain Multinational Groups on the reorganisation of their German business
- Cognizant Technology Solutions in connection with the acquisition of six subsidiaries of C:1 group
- DBAG on a EUR 50 million revolving credit facility, and certain sales and acquisitions and post M&A matters
- ABC Technologies on the acquisition of a majority interest in Karl Etzel GmbH and SAM-GmbH, including a sale and lease back of real estate
- Apollo on the sale of Vacuumschmelze Group, a leading manufacturer of magnetic alloys and their downstream solution to Ara Partners
- Commerzbank AG on the acquisition of 74.9% of the shares in AquilaCapital investmentgesellschaft GmbH (ACI) from Aquila Capital Holding GmbH and the resulting joint venture
- Vale Insurance Partners: Ongoing tax advise
- Languages
- German
- English
- Education
- Doctorate In Law, University of Cologne (2005)
- Tax Advisor Exam, Ministry of Finance, North Rhine Westphalia (2004)
- Second State Exam, Regional Court of Appeal, Düsseldorf (2000)