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Provided by Kornelia Wittmann

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Practice Areas

Kornelia specialises in tax law. Her practice focuses on national and international corporate tax law and tax structuring, tax audits and tax disputes including fiscal criminal law proceedings. She also advises in banking and financial market supervisory law.

Career

Partner; admitted as attorney in Austria since 2012, in Germany since 2009; admitted as Certified Public Tax Advisor in Austria since 2012; Hungarian Tax Advisor since 2011; prior PwC.

Professional Memberships

Austrian Bar Association; Austrian Chamber of Tax Advisors and Auditors

Publications

Kornelia is author of numerous articles. In addition to her work as a lawyer Kornelia is lecturer for tax law at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication of the Chamber of Commerce of Vienna (FH Wien der WKW).

Personal

Education

Kornelia (Dr., Diplom-Juristin Univ., Dipl.-Kffr. Univ) has degrees in law and business administrations of the Universities of Passau (Germany) and Széchenyi István (Hungary) and obtained an LL.M. for International Tax Law. She is also a certified expert in financial criminal law and admitted both as Hungarian and Austrian tax advisor.

Work Highlights

• Family-owned holding company on the sale of its majority stake in legendary Austrian food producer WOJNAR Group and on entering into a strategic partnership with VIVATIS

• Tax and financial criminal law aspects in internal investigations

• Selected representations in tax disputes and financial criminal law proceedings relating to transfer of IP and license payments, offshore payments and request to disclose the beneficial recipient, debt push down structures, attribution of income, allegation of abuse of law, wage and income tax assessments in the course of tax audits as well as as well as limited tax liability and withholding taxes

• Representation of a credit institution before the Court of Justice of the European Union

• heidelpay Group, a German technology company for international payments, with KKR as investor, on the acquisition of the Paysafe Group’s Pay Later business (payolution GmbH)

• ATX listed IMMOFINANZ AG on a EUR 356m combined share placement and the first-to-market issue of subordinated mandatory convertible notes

• Constantia Flexibles on the EUR50m settlement upon the squeeze-out compensation for Constantia Packaging shareholders

Languages Spoken

German, Englisch, Hungarian

Awards

Kornelia‘s tax expertise is recognised by various law directories such as International Tax Review, World Tax and Legal500. International Tax Review recommends Kornelia also in the category „Woman in Tax Leaders“, which highlights female practitioners.

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Tax - Austria
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Band 3

Kornelia Wittmann focuses on tax disputes and is active in litigation mandates. She further assists with transactions, including financings and capital markets work.

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