Tax. Disputes. DefenSe.
Attorney-at-Law / Certified Specialist in Tax Law
Tax matters are rarely confined to tax law alone. They often engage questions of corporate structure, enforcement risk, and reputation. Dr. Weger advises companies, business owners, and private clients on corporate and tax-related defense matters, drawing on more than 25 years of experience in complex and sensitive mandates.
Expert Tax-Focused Legal Advice
Dr. Weger guides you through corporate and tax law challenges. Admitted to all German and EU courts, he is ranked by Chambers Global and Europe, and Juve Handbuch Steuern as one of Germany's leading tax lawyers in tax law, tax criminal law, and tax litigation.
For Businesses, Investors & Private Individuals
Practice
Dr. Weger advises on tax disputes, tax-driven corporate structuring, reorganization, succession, and tax-related investigations.
His practice spans both advisory and contentious work. He advises on transactions, M&A processes, and real estate investments, structures ownership and financing arrangements, and represents clients before tax authorities and courts, including the Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof).
He is regularly instructed by entrepreneurial families, family offices, financial institutions, and senior executives in tax audits, administrative appeals, and tax-related investigations, including matters involving Cum-Ex.
Tax Disputes & Tax Defense
Dr. Weger represents clients in tax disputes from the audit stage through to proceedings before the fiscal courts and the Federal Fiscal Court. The work calls for judgment as much as technical analysis. The priority is to identify risk early, protect the client’s position, and resolve disputes in a way that is both legally rigorous and strategically sound. In tax-related criminal and regulatory matters, he pursues a defense strategy directed at limiting financial exposure and reputational harm.
Corporate and Transactional Tax
Dr. Weger advises companies and shareholders on corporate structuring, reorganization, and transactions. His work covers governance arrangements, shareholder and partnership agreements, and the tax aspects of group and holding structures. He also advises on succession in owner-managed businesses, particularly where corporate, family, and cross-border considerations need to be addressed together.
Real Estate Tax
Real estate transactions require careful tax planning and exact execution. Dr. Weger advises on acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, and financing arrangements involving real estate assets and holding structures. His work includes the tax structuring of investments, participation arrangements, and transaction frameworks, with a view to achieving tax efficiency while managing execution and regulatory risk.
International Corporate and Succession Planning
International tax and tax enforcement matters require close analysis, sound judgment, and a firm grasp of cross-border structures. Dr. Weger advises entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, and high-net-worth individuals on the tax-efficient organization of international corporate and private wealth structures. His work includes the design and implementation of holding structures having regard to income tax, real estate transfer tax, inheritance tax, and gift tax considerations, as well as representation in tax disputes with an international element. He also advises on tax compliance and on succession planning for businesses and private assets across jurisdictions.
Cases supervised by Dr. Weger
Selected Matters*
* Representative matters, some while at Arnold, Porter, Kaye Scholer LLP (incl. predecessor firm)
About Dr. Weger
Dr. iur. Martin Weger advises domestic and international clients on tax law, corporate reorganization, succession planning, M&A, joint ventures, and investment and financing matters. A significant part of his practice is devoted to tax disputes and tax-related defense, including complex Cum-Ex proceedings. He is admitted to practice before all German and European courts. His work is recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, and JUVE for tax, tax disputes, and related defense matters.
Academic Background:
1998 – First State Examination in Law, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Bavaria
2001 – Second State Examination in Law, Higher Regional Court of Bamberg, Bavaria
2004 – Doctorate (Dr. iur.) in Civil and Corporate Law, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Bavaria
Dr. Weger is a member of the supervisory board of Dr. Theodor Stiebel Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Holzminden.
A list of publications is available here as a PDF.
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Recognition
Distinctions
JUVE
Juve Handbuch Steuern
(2018-2020)
JUVE Handbook
Criminal Tax Law
(2020)
Chambers Global
Chambers Global, Tax
(2012, 2013, 2014)
Chambers Europe
Chambers Europe
(2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Your advocate in tax law
Complex tax matters require not only legal expertise but also a profound understanding of economic contexts and individual client interests. Dr. Weger offers consulting that combines legal precision with strategic thinking – reliable, forward-looking, and solution-oriented.
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