Christian Röpke

Senior Director
18+ years of experience in employment taxes
Expertise in rewards
Specializes in the taxation of high-net-worth individuals
Hamburg
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Christian Röpke is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Hamburg.

With more than 18 years of experience in employment taxes, Mr. Röpke specializes in rewards and taxation of high-net-worth individuals, in particular with respect to management equity programs, carried interest schemes, co-investment arrangements and the taxation of executives within the private equity sector.  

Mr. Röpke has worked with clients across various industries and has led a tax team of employment tax and rewards specialists, advising clients domestically and across regions. 

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Röpke was a Tax Director with Deloitte, where he advised private equity firms, multinationals and high-net-worth individuals on national and international income tax and employment tax matters. Previously, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, with a strong focus on reward topics. 

Mr. Röpke earned a bachelor’s degree in business law (Diplom-Wirtschaftsjurist (FH)) from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He has studied business law in Germany and Poland, with a focus on taxes and accounting. Mr. Röpke is a Chartered Tax Advisor in Germany.

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After confirming the tax treatment of carried interest in trading fund structures with its decision dated 11. December 2018, Germany’s Supreme Tax Court (BFH) also recently had to decide on the tax treatment of carried interest in non-trading, purely asset managing fund structures.. Even though the BFH referred the case back to the Lower Tax Court of Munich for a final decision due to procedural errors, it already provides clear guidance as to how carried interest is to be qualified for German tax purposes.
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