The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data means any data by which you can be identified personally. You can find detailed information concerning data protection in the privacy policy that follows this text.
Who is the controller responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is done by the owner of the website. You can find their contact details in the legal notice on this website.
How we collect your data
For one thing, your data are collected when you communicate them to us. This may be data you enter in a contact form.
Other data are collected automatically and after your consent by our IT systems when you visit our website. These are mostly technical data (e.g., web browser, operating system or time of access to a page). These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.
How we use your data
Some of the data are collected to ensure the smooth running of the website. Other data can be used for analyzing your user behavior.
Your rights regarding your data
You have the right to obtain information about the source, recipient and purpose of your personal data stored by us at any time free of charge. You also have the right to obtain the rectification, blocking or erasure of these data. If you have provided us with your consent to the processing of your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request under certain circumstances that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
Regarding this and other questions concerning data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.
When you visit this website, your surfing behavior may be analyzed statistically. This is done mostly by means of so-called analytics programs.
You can find more detail on these analytics programs in the following privacy policy.
This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the host. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated by a website.
The use of the host is for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1) point (b) GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6(1) point (f) GDPR).
Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to these data.
Conclusion of a contract for order processing
In order to guarantee processing in compliance with data protection, we have concluded a contract for order processing with our host.
The owners of these websites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We will keep your personal data confidential and handle them in accordance with statutory provisions on data protection as well as this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data means any data by which you can be identified personally. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use them for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
Please note that transferring data over the internet (e.g., when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. The complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.
The controller for data processing on this website is:
Ypsilon GmbH
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING COMPANY TAX CONSULTANCY FIRM
Beethovenstr. 5-13
50674 Cologne
Tel.: +49 221 292796-0
Email: info@ypsilon.group
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses and the like).
You can reach our Data Protection Officer as follows:
Ypsilon GmbH
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING COMPANY TAX CONSULTANCY FIRM
Beethovenstr. 5-13
50674 Cologne, Germany
Attn. Data protection officer
Email: dsb@ypsilon.group
If no more specific storage period has been specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing ceases to apply. If you make a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons have ceased to exist.
Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can withdraw any consent already given at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of data processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
IF DATA ARE PROCESSED BASED UPON POINT (E) OR (F) OF ART. 6(1) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO ANY PROFILING BASED UPON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU FILE AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA AFFECTED, UNLESS WE ARE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ART. 21(1) GDPR).
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS MARKETING AT ANY TIME, INCLUDING PROFILING IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).
In the case of violations of the GDPR, the persons concerned have a right to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the suspected violation. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or legal remedies.
You or a third party have the right to be provided with the data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or for the fulfilment of a contract, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. Where you request the direct transmission of the data to another controller, this will be done only where technically feasible.
For security reasons and in the interests of protecting confidential content such as any orders or enquires you may send to us as the website operator, this website uses an SSL and/or TLS encryption. You can tell an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is active, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Under applicable legal provisions, you have the right, at any time and free of charge, of access to your personal data stored by us and to information about their source and recipients and the purposes of the data processing and, where appropriate, a right to rectification or erasure of these data. Regarding this and other questions concerning personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.
You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Regarding this, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. The restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
We hereby object to the use of our contact details, as published under the obligation to provide a legal notice, for sending us marketing and information materials not expressly solicited by us. The owners of this website reserve the right to take legal action in the event of being sent unsolicited marketing information, for example in the form of spam emails.
Our website uses what are referred to as “cookies.“ Cookies are small text files and do not harm your device. They are either temporarily stored on your device for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
In some cases, third-party cookies can also be stored on your terminal device when you enter our site. These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).
Cookies have various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behavior or display marketing.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions that you have requested (functional cookies, e.g., for the shopping cart function) or to optimize the website (e. g. cookies to measure the web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1) point (f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is given. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of their services. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the storage of the cookies in question is based exclusively on this consent (Art. 6(1) point (a) GDPR); consent may be revoked at any time.
You can adjust your browser to inform you when cookies are being set and to only allow cookies on a case-by-case basis, to refuse cookies in certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
If cookies are used by third parties or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this separately within the scope of this privacy policy and may request your consent.
Our website uses Borlabs Cookie Consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and to document them in accordance with data protection requirements. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg (hereinafter Borlabs).
When you enter our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, in which the consent you have given or the withdrawal of these consents are stored. These data will not be passed on to the provider of Borlabs Cookie.
The data collected will be stored until you ask us to delete them or you delete the Borlabs cookie yourself or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory legal retention periods remain unaffected. For details on Borlabs Cookie data processing, please visit de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie
Borlabs Cookie Consent technology is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis here is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 point (c) GDPR.
The provider of the website automatically collects and stores information in server log files which are transmitted to us automatically by your browser. These include:
These data are collected on the basis of Art. 6(1) point (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in technically error-free display and optimization of its website – for this purpose, the server log files have to be captured.
If you send us requests via a contact form, your information from the request form including the contact details given there will be stored by us for the purpose of dealing with your request and any further questions. We will not pass these data on to others without your consent.
If your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation f pre-contractual measures, the processing of these data is based on Art. 6(1) point (b) GDPR. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the queries addressed to us (Art. 6(1) point (f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1) point (a) GDPR), provided that this consent has been requested.
The data entered into the contact form by you will remain with us until you request their erasure, withdraw your consent to their storage or the purpose for which the data were stored no longer applies (e.g., when your query has been dealt with). Mandatory legal provisions – particularly retention periods – shall remain unaffected.
If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your query, including all resulting personal data (name, query), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your query. We will not pass these data on to others without your consent.
If your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation f pre-contractual measures, the processing of these data is based on Art. 6(1) point (b) GDPR. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the queries addressed to us (Art. 6(1) point (f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1) point (a) GDPR), provided that this consent has been requested.
The data sent to us by you via contact requests will remain with us until you request their erasure, withdraw your consent to their storage or the purpose for which the data were stored no longer applies (e.g., when your query has been dealt with). Mandatory legal provisions – particularly statutory retention periods – shall remain unaffected.
This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Analytics enables the operator of the website to analyze the behavior of the website visitors. The operator of the website receives various usage data, such as page views, length of stay, operating systems used and origin of the user. These data are assigned to the respective terminal of the user. No assignment to a user ID takes place.
Furthermore, we can use Google Analytics to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Google Analytics also uses various modeling approaches to complement the data records it collects and uses machine learning technologies in data analysis.
Google Analytics uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing user behavior (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google concerning the use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and is stored there.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1) point (a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDPA. The consent can be revoked at any time.
The transfer of data to the US is based on the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission. Details can be found here: privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs.
Browser plug-in
You can prevent the collection and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Please refer to the privacy policy of Google for further information about the handling of user data at Google Analytics https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Order processing
We have entered into a contract for order processing with Google and in using Google Analytics fully implement the strict guidelines of the German data protection authorities.
Nymphenburger Str. 5
80335 München
Tel.: +49 89 2166682-0
E-Mail: info@ypsilon.group
As an expert for Real Estate Investments, Ulrich advises International Investors, Initiator of Real Estate Funds and Family Offices on all tax aspects of their Real Estate Investment in Germany. His focus is on a holistic advisory approach that covers every aspect from initial investment to ongoing management and exit strategy. Furthermore, Ulrich advises clients in the area of Asset Management and Private Equity.
Before joining Ypsilon, Ulrich worked as tax adviser for a Big4-firm as well as for medium-sized advisory-firms, maintaining a strong focus on International Investors and Real Estate Investments. Ulrich holds a Master-Degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim and has gained international experience working in Luxembourg.
Investmentgesetze (Baur/Tappen/Mehrkhah)
Johannes has more than 25 years of experience in advising asset managers, investment funds, institutional investors and family offices in the field of alternative investments. He focuses on administration, taxation, regulatory compliance and outsourcing projects with a clear focus on real estate and private equity funds.
After starting his own business in 1996, Johannes co-founded the consulting firm optegra, which he developed as a partner and managing director in the field of alternative investments into a recognized and specialized consulting firm with around 150 employees. After the merger with the international Vistra Group in 2017, he headed the German Alternative Investment Services division there until December 2020.
Following a sabbatical, he is now accompanying the Ypsilon Group on its growth path as Managing Director and Partner.
As an experienced auditor and tax consultant, Stephan advises medium-sized entrepreneurs and their companies on challenging business and tax issues. From auditing and M&A projects to succession planning, Stephan is a generalist for the entire range of business management issues, usually with an international focus.
Stephan has been entrepreneurially active for many years as a partner and managing director of medium-sized, internationally oriented consulting organizations in auditing and tax consulting. As co-founder of Ypsilon, Stephan transferred his entrepreneurial activities to Ypsilon in 2021 and is responsible for a demanding international client portfolio.
As an auditor, Peter advises and audits banks, investment assets, leasing companies, and service companies on commercial and regulatory issues. He is also responsible for personnel at Ypsilon.
Before joining Ypsilon, Peter founded Millennium Partners WPG, focusing on international structures. It became part of the Ypsilon Group in January 2024. He worked as an auditor for EY and in KMPG’s Financial Service division, as well as for the medium-sized, international law firm Vistra (formerly optegra) as a partner and director.
Investment Laws (Baur/Tappen/Mehrkhah)
With his legal background and many years of experience in international corporate tax experience at Big Four firms, Martin is an all-rounder for consulting in tax law, and also works in other areas of law and transfer pricing.
Before joining Ypsilon, Martin founded FIDARIS in Düsseldorf together with Georg Keller and Stephan Lindermann, with the goal of successfully building on his 15 years of experience as a partner at Frankus (tax and legal). FIDARIS became part of the Ypsilon Group in January 2024. Through his international clientele, Martin has also acquired in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of transfer pricing. After completing his two state exams in law and his doctorate, Martin spent eight years working as an authorized signatory in the area of international corporate tax at KPMG in Düsseldorf after qualifying as a tax consultant.
As an all-rounder for auditing and consulting, Mirko audits both German units of international corporations and German SMEs. He is also an expert on processes and information technology, especially for clients in the financial services industry.
In 2020, Mirko helped start the Ypsilon journey as one of its founding partners. After finishing university, he trained as a tax consultant and auditor, initially at optegra, the medium-sized law firm optegra. When optegra merged with Vistra, Vistra developed into a leading international law firm.
At Ypsilon, Maximilian and his team largely focus on the areas of private equity and corporate. Maximilian also advises funds, particularly in the fields of outsourcing and administration.
Before joining Ypsilon, Maximilian founded MILLENNIUM PARTNERS, which focused on closed-end fund structures and became part of the Ypsilon Group in January 2024. He previously worked as a lawyer at medium-sized international law firms, including Vistra.
As a specialist for closed-end fund structures, Björn advises both fund managers and initiators of private equity funds in all areas of commercial and tax law. Björn also supports our clients in the outsourcing of back and middle office functions and reporting.
Björn has been working in the field of closed-end fund structures for more than 20 years, during which he has also gained knowledge of other asset classes such as real estate, aircraft, and infrastructure, in addition to private equity. As a founding partner, Björn has been part of the Ypsilon Group since January 2021. He previously worked as a tax consultant and director in a medium-sized, internationally oriented law firm in Cologne.
As a specialist in closed-end fund structures, Tobias advises initiators of private equity and real estate funds on all aspects of tax law.
Tobias advises initiators of Private Equity and Real Estate Funds on all matters related to tax. Prior to joining Ypsilon, he founded the Millennium Partners together with Maximilian Kerndl in Munich with focus on Private Funds, which merged with Ypsilon in January 2024. Previously, he worked as a tax advisor for several medium-sized, international tax and audit firms such as optegra, Vistra and Acconsis as a Director and Managing Director. He studied business administration at University of Applied Sciences in Munich.
Our interdisciplinary team from the areas of tax consulting, auditing and business consulting supports you in understanding and implementing the legal ESG requirements with regard to ESG, CSRD and NFRD. Our approach is thorough: We conduct an in-depth analysis of your business processes and structures to develop a strategy that enables you to optimally meet the legal requirements.
The importance of payroll tax for companies stems, among other things, from the fact that in collecting payroll tax as one of the most important sources of tax of all (more than EUR 200 billion per year), the Treasury uses companies themselves as agents.Ostensibly, payroll tax appears to be a mere tax on the employee, which the company “only” withholds and transfers to the tax office. However, this is not the case if we take a closer look, as the company is significantly affected. Indeed, not only do companies have to carry out an immense administrative burden, which is not free of charge, when withholding and paying payroll tax, but they are also liable when mistakes are made. The result of all this is that payroll tax is increasingly becoming a kind of corporate tax. Targeted strategic and operational payroll tax advice helps companies to minimize tax and administrative burdens.
Moreover, payroll tax has repeatedly proved to be contentious, but this is not surprising on closer inspection. Tax arrears often place a considerable burden on companies, are always untimely and are therefore difficult to calculate. Many companies have no choice but to fight with the tax authorities or in court for their right to do so. In addition, tax authorities are increasingly making criminal tax allegations, making contentious disputes inevitable.
In day-to-day business, payroll tax advice is available by telephone and email. Through short communication channels, companies receive quick and up-to-date answers to operational payroll tax questions and concrete proposals for action as well as brief feedback on their own work results.
Strategic payroll tax issues are worked out in detail in writing and are intensively discussed in a personal interview. Practical assessments of complex individual topics are the main focus and are reflected in expert opinions.
Strategic and operational payroll tax advice creates added value for companies by
Companies based outside Germany that are expanding into Germany are guided by us through the administrative and legal requirements in all expansion phases. From hiring only one employee, to setting up a branch or subsidiary, to merging, selling or liquidating, we provide advice and assistance at all stages.
We accompany companies across borders and act as an interface with foreign consultants, service partners or other contact persons. Based on our many years of experience with companies coming to Germany from abroad, we know that “simple” things are complicated across borders. We bring this experience to the table when we support domestic companies in their expansion beyond Germany’s borders.
We offer solutions around the topics of restructuring, digitization, executive and team coaching and other transformation projects. By working together with us, you can be sure that your company not only meets current requirements, but is also prepared for what the future brings.
We believe that the issue of sustainability is fundamentally more than just compliance with legal requirements. The ESG criteria are good basic principles for responsible, smart and forward-looking corporate management and ensuring a healthy and sustainable life. The art is to integrate these principles in a meaningful, sensible and goal-oriented way.
The challenge of transformation lies in creating acceptance and commitment among all stakeholders and in agreeing on economic and sustainable goals of the company.
We are at your disposal for all legal questions. However, our focus is on business-related areas of law, in particular business law. Of course, tax law aspects are always taken into account. We accompany you from the establishment of a company, the choice of the right legal form, through the design or adaptation of company contracts, the drafting of employment contracts, right through to the planning and legal implementation of restructuring.
In specific areas such as patent law, industrial property rights, antitrust law, etc., we work with specialized cooperation partners in Germany and abroad.
Private-law mediation can help resolve long and costly conflicts. As experienced associates, we support the parties with targeted communication and structured procedures on the way to amicable conflict resolution in compliance with professional and methodological standards. Particularly in the case of family matters such as inheritance disputes or separation of marriages, individual solutions can thus often be found that are accepted by all involved.
As modern auditors, we offer you more than just an audit of your accounting system. Comprehensive, high-quality and forward-looking services in auditing must always also meet the demand for added value for the client: from brainstorming in difficult decision-making situations through investment analyses to audit services for voluntary or statutory financial statements.
Take advantage of our diversity and our independent feedback to achieve maximum security for your business decisions.
Accounting is the numerical backbone of a company. The information required for the management of the company is obtained here and the financial statements required under commercial and tax law are compiled on the basis of this information and data.
As an outsourcing partner, we take over partial areas or the entire accounting system, including payment transactions, dunning and management reports for our customers. In doing so, we integrate ourselves in the best possible way into the processes of your company up to integration into your accounting systems such as SAP, Navision, EXACT Online, SAGE, Addison, etc.
Our experience and specializations enable tailor-made tax advice. Consulting and preparation of tax returns are carried out under continuous coordination regarding risk assessment, obligations and monitoring of deadlines.
Of course, our tasks also include the monitoring of audits, tax law enforcement as well as the coordination of foreign tax advisors and the necessary FATCA/CRS compliance. Complex questions about inheritances or wills, succession regulations and gifts as well as general international tax law are also among our core competencies.
The interaction of German and foreign tax laws determines the setting of transfer prices for tax purposes; here, our tax advisors support you in the preparation of the transfer price documentation.
