LAWYER PROFILE

Christian Ruoff

Germany 2026

Freshfields

Ranked in 1 practice area

Tax

Germany

7 years ranked

About

Provided by Freshfields

Germany

Practice Areas

Christian Ruoff specialises in the tax structuring of acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, private equity and real estate transactions as well as providing tax advice to family-owned businesses. He also frequently handles large scale tax investigations.

Career

Joined Freshfields in 1998; partner since 2003.

Professional Memberships

Christian is a member of the Hamburg and New York bars and is qualified a tax advisor and tax attorney. He is the chairman of the academic advisory board of the “Hamburg Forum for Enterprise Taxation”, chairs two panels at the annual Hamburg Forum for Enterprise Taxation Conference and lectures on corporate tax law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Publications

Christian has published extensively on German and international tax law.

Personal

Christian graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (First State Exam) and Duke University Law School (LL.M.). He speaks German and English.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Germany

Tax - Germany

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Christian Ruoff has extensive experience with tax structuring mandates and often acts on complex international transactions and reorganisations.

Indviduelles Editorial

Christian Ruoff verfügt über umfangreiche Erfahrung mit Steuergestaltungen und ist häufig an komplexen internationalen Transaktionen und Umstrukturierungen beteiligt.

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