Lukas Kawka

English Version

Lukas Kawka ist Senior Associate des deutschen Büros von Morrison & Foerster in Berlin und Mitglied der Praxisgruppe Steuerrecht. Sein Fokus liegt im Bereich des nationalen sowie internationalen Unternehmenssteuerrechts und dabei insbesondere in der steuerlichen Gestaltungs- sowie Transaktionsberatung.

Er berät deutsche und internationale Mandanten im Zusammenhang mit grenzüberschreitenden Investitionen (Share und Asset Deals), einschließlich Steuerstrukturierung, sowie der Verhandlung und Umsetzung komplexer Steuerstrukturen, Projektsteuerung sowie Due Diligence und Restrukturierung von multinationalen Unternehmen. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Schwerpunkt liegt in den Bereichen Private Equity, Medien und Technologie.

Lukas Kawka studierte Rechtswissenschaften an der Freien Universität Berlin. Vor seinem Eintritt bei Morrison & Foerster arbeitete er im Steuerbereich einer internationalen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in Deutschland und den USA.

Lukas Kawka engagierte sich zudem als Mentor für Startup-Unternehmen bei mehreren Accelerator-Programmen.

Deutsche Version

Lukas Kawka is a senior associate at Morrison & Foerster’s German office in Berlin and a member of our Tax Department. He focuses on domestic and international corporate tax law with an emphasis on transactions and tax structuring.

He advises German and international clients, in particular in connection with their cross-border investments (share and asset deals), including tax structuring, contract drafting, negotiating and implementing complex tax structures, as well as project management, due diligence and restructuring of multinational enterprises. Lukas Kawka has a strong focus on the media, technology, and private equity sectors.

Lukas Kawka studied law at the Freie Universität of Berlin. Before joining Morrison & Foerster he worked in the tax department of an international auditing, tax and advisory firm in Germany and the USA.

Lukas Kawka is also a mentor to startup-companies in various accelerator programs in Berlin.

Representative Matters:

• Tax advice with respect to the global roll-out of a new product by an online music platform including the tax advice on the internalization of the group structure.
• Tax advice to a leading online food-platform with regard to a cross-border reorganization of the group structure.
• Tax advice with regard to the acquisition of startup companies by a US Private Equity Funds.
• Tax advice to a U.S. patent portfolio company with the setup of the licensing structure and the relief from the German withholding tax on royalties.
• Tax advice with respect to the acquisition of a real estate portfolio by a publicly traded stock company.
• Tax advice with respect to employee participation programs.
• Tax advice with regard to the establishment of a private equity funds including the tax advice on the implementation of the carry-vehicle.
• Tax advice to a DWS-Funds with regard to the acquisition of the Deutsche Bank-Towers.
• Tax advice to various HSBC-Funds with regard to the German CFC-Rules.