ABOUT US
BZG is an interdisciplinary consulting and auditing partnership in Münster. As a highly qualified team, we have been providing our clients with interdisciplinary advice in the fields of tax consulting, auditing and legal advice for over 10 years. Our services include both ongoing consulting and project support.
We serve clients from a wide range of fields, industries and sizes. The consulting of private individuals, freelancers and tradesmen, medium-sized companies/groups of companies and their shareholders is one of our core competencies.
In addition, we offer comprehensive consulting services for cities and municipalities and their subsidiaries, public corporations and non-profit foundations / institutions / associations/ clubs as a further core competence.
We serve clients from a wide range of fields, industries and sizes. The consulting of private individuals, freelancers and tradesmen, medium-sized companies/groups of companies and their shareholders is one of our core competencies.
In addition, we offer comprehensive consulting services for cities and municipalities and their subsidiaries, public corporations and non-profit foundations / institutions / associations/ clubs as a further core competence.
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY
We founded our partnership in 2008. From the very beginning we have focused on the interdisciplinary consulting approach. This enables us to provide our clients with the highest level of advice in tax, business and legal matters as well as at the interfaces of these areas. If, for example, in the course of declaration advice, facts become apparent which go beyond these and offer risks or opportunities for the client, we can identify these early on thanks to our interdisciplinary approach and together find the best solution for the client. The client is supported by his contact person.
We attach great importance to multiple qualifications in our team and are constantly expanding these qualifications through support in further education and training and the promotion of professional examinations. Starting early with this support, we are always pleased when we are able to convince trainees, interns and working students of our passion for the profession and when our paths cross more than once.
The professional exchange between colleagues from all disciplines is of great importance to us. After all, your issues can, should and must be examined from different perspectives (tax, business and legal consulting) in order to develop the best solution alternatives tailored to your needs.
We see ourselves as partners of our clients, with whom we master the daily challenges and demands together. We are a consulting boutique that provides individual advice and support tailored to the individual case. We assist our clients with problems and challenges in everyday and extraordinary situations. For our clients, we provide advice, planning and design, but also act in court for them. In our experience, many challenges can be mastered if a clear and structured plan of action has been worked out with the consultant. Also, alternative steps can be pointed out early in the process.
Just like our clients, we are interested in sustainable success. Therefore, we invest in a long-term orientation of partnership. For our clients it is important to have reliable and permanent contact persons. The satisfaction of our clients as well as our colleagues is our daily incentive.
We attach great importance to multiple qualifications in our team and are constantly expanding these qualifications through support in further education and training and the promotion of professional examinations. Starting early with this support, we are always pleased when we are able to convince trainees, interns and working students of our passion for the profession and when our paths cross more than once.
The professional exchange between colleagues from all disciplines is of great importance to us. After all, your issues can, should and must be examined from different perspectives (tax, business and legal consulting) in order to develop the best solution alternatives tailored to your needs.
We see ourselves as partners of our clients, with whom we master the daily challenges and demands together. We are a consulting boutique that provides individual advice and support tailored to the individual case. We assist our clients with problems and challenges in everyday and extraordinary situations. For our clients, we provide advice, planning and design, but also act in court for them. In our experience, many challenges can be mastered if a clear and structured plan of action has been worked out with the consultant. Also, alternative steps can be pointed out early in the process.
Just like our clients, we are interested in sustainable success. Therefore, we invest in a long-term orientation of partnership. For our clients it is important to have reliable and permanent contact persons. The satisfaction of our clients as well as our colleagues is our daily incentive.
TEAM
Our team lives from all participants. Everyone is important for us to succeed.
Respect, mutual appreciation as well as fair and open interaction are not just empty phrases for us, but practiced beliefs. A sense of responsibility and mutual trust are as important as professional expertise. As personalities, we partners stand up for these values. We are the first contact for our employees to clarify important questions and to identify challenges at an early stage and master them together. Each partner has special skills and talents, which he puts at the service of the firm and thus at the service of the clients.
Respect, mutual appreciation as well as fair and open interaction are not just empty phrases for us, but practiced beliefs. A sense of responsibility and mutual trust are as important as professional expertise. As personalities, we partners stand up for these values. We are the first contact for our employees to clarify important questions and to identify challenges at an early stage and master them together. Each partner has special skills and talents, which he puts at the service of the firm and thus at the service of the clients.
Guido Bleckmann
Managing PartnerAttorneyTax Consultantspecialist lawyer for tax law
Professional career
- 1994-2002 Law studies in Münster and legal traineeship
- 2002-2007 Employed as a lawyer in a medium-sized auditing company and in-service completion of the tax consultant exam
- 2007-2008 Self-employment in cooperation with partners of the partnership founded in 2008
- 2008-today partner of BZG
Professional qualifications
- 1999 first state examination in law
- 2002 second state examination in law and call to the bar
- 2006 Appointment as tax consultant
- 2018 Recognition as a specialist lawyer for tax law
Focus of consulting
- Tax structuring advice, e.g. in restructuring for medium-sized companies and groups of companies
- Succession arrangements as well as tax protection of such arrangements
- M&A transactions
- Shareholder disputes
- Valuations of real estate and companies
- Execution of wills
- Tax planning in restructuring cases
- Advice on sales tax law including cross-border cases
- Advice on international tax law
- tax advice in the public sector, in particular on
- § 2b Germany’s VAT Act, including optimization of input tax deduction
- commercial business of corporations under public law (BgA) - Consulting for non-profit associations and professional organizations
Professional career
- 1997-2000 Training as assistant tax consultant
- 2000-2007 Assistant tax consultant in a nationally known cultural institution in Münster
- 2000-2007 Studies of business administration at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster with the main focus on "auditing" and "business taxation"
- 2007-today working for BZG, first as assistant, later as audit manager and since January 2011 as partner
Professional qualifications
- 2000 Assistant tax consultant
- 2007 Diploma in business administration
- 2010 Appointment as tax consultant
- 2016 Appointment as auditor
Focus of consulting
- Audit and preparation of annual and consolidated financial statements
- sTax-neutral restructuring of companies and groups of companies
- tax advice in the public sector, e.g. - Tax CMS, including setup and implementation - § 2b Germany’s VAT Act, including optimization of input tax deduction - commercial business of corporations under public law (BgA), e.g. recognizing and tax-optimizing them
- Consulting for non-profit associations and professional organizations
- Company valuation
- Special stages
- audit-related consulting services
Professional career
- 2002-2009 German Armed Forces
- 2008-2011 Studies of Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences Münster with focus on "Taxation, Auditing and Accounting"
- 2011-today working for BZG, first as assistant, later as audit manager and since January 2019 as partner
Professional qualifications
- 2004 office administrator
- 2006 Office administrator in personnel matters and accountancy
- 2008 Business economist HWK
- 2011 Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
- 2016 Appointment as tax consultant
Focus of consulting
- Preparation and auditing of annual and consolidated financial statements
- Business valuation, budgeted balance sheets, annual financial statement analyses
- Tax and business management consulting for freelancers, tradespeople and medium-sized companies and their shareholders
- Tax consultancy for associations
- Support in founding
- Development of liquidity and business plans
Philipp Sauset, LL.M.
Managing Partner Attorney Tax Consultantspecialist lawyer for tax law
Professional career
- 2007 - 2015 Law studies in Constance and Münster as well as legal traineeship in Münster
- 2015 - 2017 in-service completion studies of tax sciences at the WWU Münster (LL.M.)
- 2015 - 2017 employed lawyer at BZG
- 2017 - 2019 Attorney at Law at one of the largest German tax consulting, auditing and law firms, Cologne office, in-service completion of the tax consultant exam
- 2019 - today working for BZG; since 2020 as managing director
Professional qualifications
- 2013 first state examination in law
- 2015 second state examination in law and call to the bar
- 2017 LL.M. in Tax Sciences
- 2019 Recognition as a specialist lawyer for tax law
- 2019 Appointment as tax consultant
Focus of consulting
- Establishment of holding structures in consideration of corporate and tax law
- Shareholder disputes
- Tax structuring advice, e.g. in restructuring for medium-sized companies and groups of companies succession arrangements as well as tax protection of such arrangements
- M&A transactions
- Succession and estate planning, including foundation structuring, advice to company owners and private individuals
- Transfer of assets with view on gift tax implications
- Consulting on drawing up wills
- Execution of wills
- Tax structuring with view to income tax and real estate transfer tax implications
- Advice on international tax law
- Fiscal court proceedings
- Criminal tax law
- Lecturer, e.g. on the law of reorganisation and reorganisation tax law
- Publications on corporate and tax law topics
Our success is based on the knowledge and experience of our employees. They are the ones who give our company its face. We would like to introduce these faces to you in the following:
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