Dr. Steffen Kranz

S&P Söffing is one of Germany’s leading law firms specialized in the field of tax law and tax proceedings. S&P Söffing offers tax-focused legal advice in connection with wealth and company succession, asset and investment structuring, criminal tax issues and proceedings before German financial courts, including the federal financial court. The aforementioned tax-focused legal advices are not strictly limited to tax law matters but also comprise legal implementation services such as drafting last wills, inheritance and gift agreements.

Dr. Steffen Kranz is a lawyer and certified specialized lawyer for tax law. His advisory services are focused on tax structuring, in particular on the occasion of asset and company successions. Once Steffen had completed his law studies at the University of Cologne he started the postgraduate course Tax Law Science at the University of Osnabrück which he completed with a Master of Law degree (LL.M. Taxation). Simultaneous to his Tax Law Science studies Steffen wrote his doctoral thesis concerning aspects of real estate accounting under national GAAP and IFRS. Before joining S&P Söffing in 2016, Steffen has been working for an international law firm in the Practice Area Tax and a Big Four accounting firm in the Transaction Tax Department.

In addition to his daily work for clients Steffen publishes articles and other contributions regarding German tax law matters on a regularly basis. He is a member of the German Bar Association and the taxOS Association.