Legal Practice

Initially trained as a generalist Henning Haarhaus is capable to offer a wide range of legal services to his clients. He focuses his practice on property, taxation, inheritance, business and civil law matters (contracts and torts). This involves the drafting and negotiation of contracts and representation in out-of court settlements as well as the pursue of litigation. In complex legal fields like taxation or inheritance law he maintains his standard of expertise also by extra-occupational education. Henning Haarhaus represents clients all over Germany.

Business Clients

Henning Haarhaus assist his clients in deciding whether they want to operate their business as a sole proprietorship, an unlimited company, a limited partnership, a limited liability company or as a public limited company. He advises his clients on directors´ liabilities, the dissolution and reorganization of companies, business successions and acquisitions, corporate finance, taxation as well as on the members´/ shareholders´ rights. Regarding the operation of the business he assists in labour-law an commercial disputes as well as in the legal protection against unfair competition practices.

Private Clients

Henning Haarhaus provides legal advice in inheritance matters. Other fields of his practice are building law, landlord/ tenant disputes, labour disputes and other kinds of general civil legal practice. What is more, he assists his clients in filing any kind of German tax returns. At times, he also handles family law cases and other civil law matters related with the region in and around Berlin.

Vita of Henning Haarhaus

Credentials

Henning Haarhaus holds the occupational titles

• “Rechtsanwalt” (Solicitor/ Attorney at Law) and
• “Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht” (Bar Certified Tax Specialist)

which were granted to him according to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is member of the Berlin Bar Association (www.rak-berlin.de) and admitted to practice law before all courts in Germany except for the Supreme Court. He is subject to the special professional regulations as stipulated in the Federal Lawyers´ Act (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung), the Rules and Regulations for the German Bar (Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte) and the Rules and Regulation for Specialist Solicitors (Fachanwaltsordnung) and other regulations which can be examined on the Website of the German Federal Bar: www.brak.de

Henning Haarhaus is a member of the Association of Lawyers in Berlin, the German Association for Inheritance Law and the Succession in Property Rights. Furthermore he is Secretary General of the German-Korean Lawyers´ Association.

Education and professional background

• 2008 – publication of a book in German about capital investments and tax havens
• 2007 – award of the occupational title “Certified Tax Lawyer” by the Berlin Bar Association
• 2005 – training course for the award of the occupational title “Certified Probate Lawyer”
• 2004/ 2005 – teaching assignments in the field of real property law at the University of Applied Sciences of Saxony-Anhalt and at the European Institute for Postgraduate Studies in Dresden
• 2003 – foundation of law office
• 2001/ 2002 – associate lawyer with Bormann Demant & Partner, a Berlin based tax consulting firm (insolvency and corporate finance law)
• 1999/ 2001 – associate lawyer with Dr. Rödl & Partner, Dresden - biggest tax consulting firm of German origin (business law, litigation)
• 1999 - admittance to the Berlin Bar Association
• 1998/ 1999 executive officer at the Federal Banking Supervisory Office (Money Laundry Reduction Dept.)
• 1998 - Second State Exam (German qualification to serve as a judge)
• 1995/ 1998 – judicial traineeship/ articles at the Berlin Higher Regional Court serving stations at the Berlin District Civil Court, at the business crimes department of the Berlin District Public Prosecutors Office, at the building and loan association department of the Federal Banking Supervisory Authority, at the stock exchange and banking institutions supervisory department of the Berlin State Economics Minister, at the unfair competition reduction department of the Consumer Protection Board, at the Wedding Local Civil Court, at a local law firm and the international legal desk of Hwang Mok Park & Jin, Seoul, Korea
• 1994 - First State Exam (JD-equivalent)
• 1989/ 1994 - law studies at the University of Passau/ Bavaria and the Humboldt-University of Berlin
• 1987/ 1989 - two-year-training with Deutsche Bank AG in Solingen, graduation as CCI-certified bank clerk
  

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