Dipl.-Finanzwirt (FH) Frederik A. Karnath

Tax Advisor, Lawyer, Managing Partner

Frederik Karnath advises almost exclusively on tax procedural law, criminal tax law, tax administrative offenses, and commercial criminal law. His main areas of expertise are criminal tax defense and voluntary disclosure advice, as well as conducting internal investigations and designing compliance measures. In this context, he advises individuals and companies who need solutions to problems that are often existential. He is also regularly retained in complex tax audit and fiscal court proceedings and prepares expert opinions on tax matters. Another aspect of his work is advising companies in crisis, particularly with regard to defending liability claims against managers in the context of corporate insolvencies.

Frederik Karnath studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Finance in Nordkirchen and has been a graduate in finance (FH) since 2008. He then studied law in Bonn alongside his work in financial administration. Frederik Karnath has held various positions in the tax administration of North Rhine-Westphalia. He has been a lawyer since 2017 and a tax advisor since 2019. Before joining the DORNBACH Group, Frederik Karnath worked as a director at a large Next-Ten company.

He has been managing director of the DORNBACH Group in Bonn since July 2021 and a founding partner of Dornbach Tax & Legal Solutions Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH since 2025.

Frederik Karnath speaks German and English. In addition to his consulting work, he regularly publishes and lectures on his areas of expertise. He is a member of the Tax Law Working Group of the German Bar Association, the Cologne Insolvency Working Group, and the Economic Criminal Law Association.

Specialisations

• Defense in criminal tax proceedings and proceedings for tax irregularities
• Commercial criminal law, in particular labor criminal law (Section 266a of the German Criminal Code (StGB)), customs criminal law, money laundering
• Advice on voluntary disclosures and corrections
• Internal fact-finding and internal investigations
• Tax audits / tax litigation (fiscal court and Federal Fiscal Court)
• Defense against liability claims
  

Contact

Office Bonn
Phone +49 (0) 228 96 77 88 - 0
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