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In addition to dealing with general business and tax law questions,
Mr. Stefan Winheller is highly experienced in the German and
the US nonprofit tax law field and mainly focuses on tax law
issues with respect to charitable organizations and private
foundations as well as the law of charitable giving and international
grantmaking. Mr. Winheller is also in charge of the firm´s
US securities litigation department advising European institutional
investors (including private foundations) on their rights
and opportunities with regards to US securities class actions.
Mr. Winheller studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg,
Bielefeld, Speyer; and Cologne with a major in tax law. After
being admitted to the German Bar, he completed his postgraduate
studies in US tax law as a merit scholarship recipient
at Golden Gate
University, San Francisco (USA) and received his LL.M.
in Taxation degree "with honors". During his stay
abroad Mr. Winheller did intensive studies on the law of taxation
of US nonprofit organizations. In his dissertation-thesis
in process Mr. Winheller examines the differences and similarities
of the law of taxation of nonprofit organizations in Germany
and the US.
Mr. Winheller has published numerous articles and regularly
gives lectures in his fields of speciality. Mr. Winheller
is one of the founders and current President/CEO of American
Friends of Germany, Inc., a US domestic 501(c)(3) charity
which supports German nonprofit organizations in their fundraising
activities in the US.
Mr. Winheller is the founder and the managing partner of Winheller
Attorneys at Law.
- Nonprofit
Tax Law
- Private
Foundations
- Nonprofit
Limited Liability Co.
- Fundraising
in the USA
- Asset
Counseling & Protection
- Sponsoring
- Alternative
Financing
- US
Securities Class Actions
- US Securities
Tracker Program
- International Business
Law
- International
Tax Law
Deutsch-Amerikanische
Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German-American Lawyers´ Association),
task force "Law of Taxation"; Verein der Koelner
Steuerrechtswissenschaften (Cologne Association of Tax Law
Sciences); CEO of American Friends of Germany, Inc., USA;
Secretary of the Stiftung Pro Politik (Pro Politik Foundation);
Deutscher Anwaltverein DAV (German Attorneys´ Association)
German, English
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