About

BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner is specialised in high-quality legal advice in banking and capital markets law, as well as in financial and estate planning.

Our highly qualified lawyers guarantee an excellent quality and efficiency of trustful advice. We have a wealth of experience advising on all the issues clients may have to face in relation to wealth management. All partners and employees of our law firm have a banking background in common. Before starting their professional activities as lawyers, all partners worked in German banks and financial institutions respectively. Due to this experience in the financial services sector we are specialised in the practice areas of financial services and estate planning. We share our profound knowledge by holding seminars on subjects of interest to clients and business schools as well. Additionally all partners regularly publish on matters of estate planning and financial services.

We provide our corporate and private clients with advice in the areas of banking and capital markets law as well as in financial and estate planning. Among our clients are banks, savings banks and financial service providers. We give advice to managing directors, members of executive and supervisory boards in all questions of financial and company law as well as in law of succession. We offer legal advice on the whole spectrum of private and business issues, helping clients to preserve their family assets and wealth and handing it down to successive generations.

Our activities range from providing legal assistance in your daily business operations, from drafting and negotiating contracts, and from representing your interests in court or vis-à-vis government authorities to in-depth studies of complex questions of jurisprudence.

Lawyers

Andreas Otto Kühne
Andreas Otto Kühne
Lawyer, specialised lawyer for inheritance law
Of counsel
Languages: german, english, french, italian, spanish

Andreas Otto Kühne, lawyer and specialised lawyer for inheritance law, founded BKL in 2007. His focus of activity includes counselling in matters of international inheritance law as well as international succession planning. In 2013, Andreas Otto Kühne was voted one of the “leading lawyers – Europe – Germany” by the City Wealth Magazine. He shares his expertise as author and lecturer.

Focus of activity

  • drawing up wills and testamentary contracts (national and international)
  • distribution of the estate in case of succession
  • execution of wills
  • company succession, company law
  • marriage contracts / prenuptial agreements (national and international)
  • inheritance tax law
  • foundation law
  • counselling of family offices (supervisory law, drafting of contracts)
  • articles of incorporation of family-owned businesses

Career

  • joined BKL in november 2024 as of counsel
  • founder of and partner at BKL since 2007
  • from 2001 until 2006 responsible partner for inheritance law and capital investment law at Velten Franz Jakoby in Düssedorf.
  • many years’ experience as asset manager at BHF bank and managing director of the multi family office “Oppenheim Vermögenstreuhand GmbH”
  • legal studies at the universities of Bonn and Munich

Memberships & lecture activities 

  • president of the Estate Planning Commission of the “Union Internationale des Avocats”, Paris
  • member of the supervisory board of a medium-sized family-owned business
  • member of the executive board of a charitable foundation
  • lecturer on international execution of wills, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • lecturer on national and international inheritance law, Management-Akademie der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe
  • lecturer at the German Association for Estate Law and Estate Planning (Deutsche Vereinigung für Erbrecht und Vermögensnachfolge e.V.)
Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert
Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert
Lawyer
Partner
Languages: german, english

Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert joined BKL in 2014. His focus of activity includes capital market law as well as company law and distribution law. Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert primarily advises companies from the financial sector, banks and savings banks. He frequently shares his expertise as lecturer at events.

Focus of activity

  • capital market law
  • compliance
  • distribution law
  • structured finances
  • alternative investment funds
  • restructuring
  • legal proceedings

Career

  • associated partner at BKL since 2014, partner since 2015
  • many years’ experience as in-house lawyer at different financial services providers
  • legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court Zweibrücken
  • legal studies at the university “Johannes-Gutenberg”, Mainz

publications

  • P&R Container-Direktinvestment – An education-free investment product?, BKR 12/2021, 739-745
Markus Weidenbach
Markus Weidenbach
Lawyer
Associated Partner
german, english, italian

Lawyer Markus Weidenbach joined BKL in September 2019, since April 2020 as an Associated Partner. He worked in tax and building authorities for 20 years. His professional skills are tax law, criminal tax law, tax procedural law, constitutional law and European law.

Focus of activity

  • tax law including tax law relating to non-profit organizations an inheritance tax law
  • criminal tax law and tax procedural law
  • foundation law and association law
  • constitutional law and European law

Career

  • joined BKL in September 2019, since April 2020 as an Associated Partner
  • 20 years professional experience in tax and building authorities, training for the higher civil service at the tax authority, representative of the director of a regional tax authority, various functions in ministry administration
  • Legal studies at the Universities of Trier and Trient
  • research work at a faculty of criminal and law of criminal procedure during studies
Manuel Neumann
Manuel Neumann
Lawyer
Languages: german, english

Manuel Neumann joined BKL as a lawyer in 2021. His special expertise lies in banking and capital markets law. In particular, he represents financial investment and insurance intermediaries as well as insurance companies in capital investment litigation.

Focus of activity

  • Defense of claims in connection with investment advice and investment brokering as well as prospectus liability
  • Banking and capital markets law
  • Insurance law
  • Contract law
  • Litigation
  • General civil law

Career

  • Since 2021 attorney at law at BKL
  • 2020 employment in the legal department of a company with a focus on capital markets and derivatives law
  • 2018 to 2020 legal clerkship in the district of Cologne Higher Regional Court with stations at an international commercial law firm in Düsseldorf, a corporate legal department in Bonn and the Federal Police Headquarters Sankt Augustin
  • 2017 to 2018 employment at the Bundesnetzagentur
  • Legal studies at the University of Bonn with a focus on economics and competition
Elisabeth Ruhlmann
Elisabeth Ruhlmann
Lawyer
German, English

Elisabeth Ruhlmann has been working as a lawyer for BKL since 2021. Her main areas of activity are banking and capital market law, commercial and corporate law as well as insolvency law. She dealt with the topic of finance as part of her training and has also been a consultant in this area for several years.

Main areas of activity

  • Banking and capital market law
  • Commercial and company law
  • Bankruptcy Law
  • Litigation
  • Contract law
  • Criminal Law

Career

  • Since 2021 lawyer at BKL
  • Legal preparatory service in the Munich Higher Regional Court district, including at the 3rd Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court for banking and financial matters, the Munich I Public Prosecutor’s Office and a criminal law firm.
  • Studied law at the University of Passau with a focus on corporate and capital market law
Dr. Daniel J. Fischer
Dr. Daniel J. Fischer
Lawyer, tax consultant
Of counsel
Languages: german, english

Lawyer and tax consultant Dr. Daniel J. Fischer BKL in 2011. His areas of expertise are tax law and criminal tax law, foundation law and non-profit law as well as international inheritance law. Further, Dr. Daniel J. Fischer is member of the supervisory bodies of several charitable foundations.

Focus of activity

  • foundation law and association law
  • tax law relating to non-profit organizations
  • national and international inheritance law and inheritance tax law
  • tax law, especially tax procedural law, representation before tax authorities and tax courts, assistance with company tax audits
  • consulting and defence regarding criminal tax law, assistance with self-disclosure

Career 

  • joined BKL in 2020 as of counsel
  • partner at BKL since 2011
  • many years’ experience at supraregionally operating law firms, for instance Flick Glocke Schaumburg
  • admission to the German bar in 2000, admission as tax consultant in 2005
  • from 1996 until 1998 research assistant and doctorate at the university of Trier, before that legal studies at the universities of Cologne and Trier

Memberships & lecture activities 

  • member of the supervisory bodies of several charitable foundations, for instance chairman of the board of Trustees of the German children’s hospice foundation (“Deutsche Kinderhospizstiftung”)
  • discussion circle “tax law relating to non-profit organisations” at the Association of German Foundations
  • speaker at leading management institutes and seminar providers, for instance C.H. Beck, nwb Verlag

Lawyers

Andreas Otto Kühne
Andreas Otto Kühne
Lawyer, specialised lawyer for inheritance law
Of counsel
Languages: german, english, french, italian, spanish

Andreas Otto Kühne, lawyer and specialised lawyer for inheritance law, founded BKL in 2007. His focus of activity includes counselling in matters of international inheritance law as well as international succession planning. In 2013, Andreas Otto Kühne was voted one of the “leading lawyers – Europe – Germany” by the City Wealth Magazine. He shares his expertise as author and lecturer.

Focus of activity

  • drawing up wills and testamentary contracts (national and international)
  • distribution of the estate in case of succession
  • execution of wills
  • company succession, company law
  • marriage contracts / prenuptial agreements (national and international)
  • inheritance tax law
  • foundation law
  • counselling of family offices (supervisory law, drafting of contracts)
  • articles of incorporation of family-owned businesses

Career

  • joined BKL in november 2024 as of counsel
  • founder of and partner at BKL since 2007
  • from 2001 until 2006 responsible partner for inheritance law and capital investment law at Velten Franz Jakoby in Düssedorf.
  • many years’ experience as asset manager at BHF bank and managing director of the multi family office “Oppenheim Vermögenstreuhand GmbH”
  • legal studies at the universities of Bonn and Munich

Memberships & lecture activities 

  • president of the Estate Planning Commission of the “Union Internationale des Avocats”, Paris
  • member of the supervisory board of a medium-sized family-owned business
  • member of the executive board of a charitable foundation
  • lecturer on international execution of wills, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • lecturer on national and international inheritance law, Management-Akademie der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe
  • lecturer at the German Association for Estate Law and Estate Planning (Deutsche Vereinigung für Erbrecht und Vermögensnachfolge e.V.)
Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert
Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert
Lawyer
Partner
Languages: german, english

Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert joined BKL in 2014. His focus of activity includes capital market law as well as company law and distribution law. Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert primarily advises companies from the financial sector, banks and savings banks. He frequently shares his expertise as lecturer at events.

Focus of activity

  • capital market law
  • compliance
  • distribution law
  • structured finances
  • alternative investment funds
  • restructuring
  • legal proceedings

Career

  • associated partner at BKL since 2014, partner since 2015
  • many years’ experience as in-house lawyer at different financial services providers
  • legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court Zweibrücken
  • legal studies at the university “Johannes-Gutenberg”, Mainz

publications

  • P&R Container-Direktinvestment – An education-free investment product?, BKR 12/2021, 739-745
Markus Weidenbach
Markus Weidenbach
Lawyer
Associated Partner
german, english, italian

Lawyer Markus Weidenbach joined BKL in September 2019, since April 2020 as an Associated Partner. He worked in tax and building authorities for 20 years. His professional skills are tax law, criminal tax law, tax procedural law, constitutional law and European law.

Focus of activity

  • tax law including tax law relating to non-profit organizations an inheritance tax law
  • criminal tax law and tax procedural law
  • foundation law and association law
  • constitutional law and European law

Career

  • joined BKL in September 2019, since April 2020 as an Associated Partner
  • 20 years professional experience in tax and building authorities, training for the higher civil service at the tax authority, representative of the director of a regional tax authority, various functions in ministry administration
  • Legal studies at the Universities of Trier and Trient
  • research work at a faculty of criminal and law of criminal procedure during studies
Manuel Neumann
Manuel Neumann
Lawyer
Languages: german, english

Manuel Neumann joined BKL as a lawyer in 2021. His special expertise lies in banking and capital markets law. In particular, he represents financial investment and insurance intermediaries as well as insurance companies in capital investment litigation.

Focus of activity

  • Defense of claims in connection with investment advice and investment brokering as well as prospectus liability
  • Banking and capital markets law
  • Insurance law
  • Contract law
  • Litigation
  • General civil law

Career

  • Since 2021 attorney at law at BKL
  • 2020 employment in the legal department of a company with a focus on capital markets and derivatives law
  • 2018 to 2020 legal clerkship in the district of Cologne Higher Regional Court with stations at an international commercial law firm in Düsseldorf, a corporate legal department in Bonn and the Federal Police Headquarters Sankt Augustin
  • 2017 to 2018 employment at the Bundesnetzagentur
  • Legal studies at the University of Bonn with a focus on economics and competition
Elisabeth Ruhlmann
Elisabeth Ruhlmann
Lawyer
German, English

Elisabeth Ruhlmann has been working as a lawyer for BKL since 2021. Her main areas of activity are banking and capital market law, commercial and corporate law as well as insolvency law. She dealt with the topic of finance as part of her training and has also been a consultant in this area for several years.

Main areas of activity

  • Banking and capital market law
  • Commercial and company law
  • Bankruptcy Law
  • Litigation
  • Contract law
  • Criminal Law

Career

  • Since 2021 lawyer at BKL
  • Legal preparatory service in the Munich Higher Regional Court district, including at the 3rd Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court for banking and financial matters, the Munich I Public Prosecutor’s Office and a criminal law firm.
  • Studied law at the University of Passau with a focus on corporate and capital market law
Dr. Daniel J. Fischer
Dr. Daniel J. Fischer
Lawyer, tax consultant
Of counsel
Languages: german, english

Lawyer and tax consultant Dr. Daniel J. Fischer BKL in 2011. His areas of expertise are tax law and criminal tax law, foundation law and non-profit law as well as international inheritance law. Further, Dr. Daniel J. Fischer is member of the supervisory bodies of several charitable foundations.

Focus of activity

  • foundation law and association law
  • tax law relating to non-profit organizations
  • national and international inheritance law and inheritance tax law
  • tax law, especially tax procedural law, representation before tax authorities and tax courts, assistance with company tax audits
  • consulting and defence regarding criminal tax law, assistance with self-disclosure

Career 

  • joined BKL in 2020 as of counsel
  • partner at BKL since 2011
  • many years’ experience at supraregionally operating law firms, for instance Flick Glocke Schaumburg
  • admission to the German bar in 2000, admission as tax consultant in 2005
  • from 1996 until 1998 research assistant and doctorate at the university of Trier, before that legal studies at the universities of Cologne and Trier

Memberships & lecture activities 

  • member of the supervisory bodies of several charitable foundations, for instance chairman of the board of Trustees of the German children’s hospice foundation (“Deutsche Kinderhospizstiftung”)
  • discussion circle “tax law relating to non-profit organisations” at the Association of German Foundations
  • speaker at leading management institutes and seminar providers, for instance C.H. Beck, nwb Verlag

Contact

Bonn

BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Rheinwerkallee 6
53227 Bonn

Tel: +49 228 945945-0
Fax: +49 228 945945-55

Sandra Trost

Legal Assistant

Bonn

BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Rheinwerkallee 6
53227 Bonn

Tel: +49 228 945945-0
Fax: +49 228 945945-55

Sabine Klein

Legal Assistant

Munich

BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Pettenkoferstraße 37
80336 München

Tel: +49 89 2441688-0
Fax: +49 89 2441688-88

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Bonn office
BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Rheinwerkallee 6
53227 Bonn
Tel: +49 228 945945-0
Fax: +49 228 945945-55
Mail: info(at)bkl-law.de

Hamburg office
BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Große Bleichen 34
20354 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 238353-800
Fax:+49 40 238353-888
Mail: info(at)bkl-law.de

Munich Office
BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner
Rechtsanwälte mbB
Pettenkoferstraße 37
80336 München
Tel: +49 89 2441688-0
Fax: +49 89 2441688-88
Mail: info(at)bkl-law.de

 

Legal form and registration
BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB is a partnership with limited professional liability in accordance with the German Act on Professional Partnerships (PartGG); registered at the local court (Amtsgericht) of Essen no. 1702.

VAT identification number (sec. 27a German Value Added Tax Act)
DE 251848593

Competent supervisory authorities

The lawyers and tax consultants respectively forming the partnership are admitted within the Federal Republic of Germany to practise as lawyers (Rechtsanwalt) and are members of the German Federal Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

For the partner Andreas Otto Kühne: Bar Association in Cologne, Riehler Straße 30, 50668 Cologne, Germany, www.rak-koeln.de.

For the partner Alexander Pfisterer-Junkert: Bar Association in Munich, Tal 33, 80331 Munich, Germany, www.rak-muenchen.de.

For the partner Dr. Bastian Schmidt-Vollmer: Bar Association in Hamburg, Valentinskamp 88, 20355 Hamburg, www.rak-hamburg.de.

For attorney Markus Weidenbach: Bar Association in Cologne.

For attorney Manuel Neumann: Bar Association in Cologne.

For attorney Elisabeth Ruhlmann: Bar Association in Munich.

For attorney Artur Timin: Bar Association in Cologne.

For attorney Michael Minderjahn: Bar Association in Cologne.

For attorney Dr. Daniel J. Fischer: Chamber of Tax Consultants in Cologne, Gereonstraße 34, 50670 Cologne, Germany, www.stb-koeln.de and member of the German Federal Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer). Dr. Fischer works as Of Counsel for BKL Fischer Kühne + Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB.

 

Relevant legal professional regulations

The following legal professional regulations for attorneys operating in Germany are available at the websites of the Federal Bar Association: www.rak.de

  • Federal Code for the Legal Profession (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung – BRAO)
  • Lawyers‘ Professional Code of Conduct (Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte – BORA)
  • Specialist Lawyer Code of Conduct (Fachanwaltsordnung – FAO)
  • Attorney Remuneration Code (Gesetz über die Vergütung der Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte – RVG)
  • Rules of profession for Lawyers in the European Union (Berufsregeln für Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Gemeinschaft)

The following legal professional regulations for tax consultants operating in Germany are available at the websites of the Federal Chamber of Tax Consultants: www.bundessteuerberaterkammer.de

  • German Tax Advisory Act (Steuerberatungsgesetz – StBerG)
  • Regulation on the Implementation of the Tax Advisory Act(Durchführungsverordnung zum Steuerberatungsgesetz – DVStB)
  • Tax Consultants‘ Professional Code of Conduct (Berufsordnung für Steuerberater – BOStB)
  • Tax Consultants‘ Remuneration Code (Steuerberatergebührenverordnung – StBGGebV)

Professional indemnity insurance

The professional indemnity insurance is provided by the Allianz Insurance Public Company (Allianz Versicherungs-AG) in 109000 Berlin, Germany.The territorial validity of the insurance coverage comprises actions within the European Union member states and complies with the legal requirements sec. 51 Federal Code for the Legal Profession (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung – BRAO), sec. 67 of the Tax Advisory Act (Steuerberatungsgesetz – StBerG), sections 51 et seq. of the Regulation on the Implementation of the Tax Advisory Act (DVStB).
The insurance does not cover services rendered in connection with, counselling on and working with non-European law as well as lawyers’ services rendered before Non-European courts.

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Date: July 2024