Dr Pia Dorfmueller is a Partner in the Tax practice group of Eversheds Sutherland in Frankfurt.
Pia focuses on international tax law, transactional tax, tax structuring, and reorganisations.
In addition to her advisory work, Pia is the Germany correspondent for the international tax journal, Tax Notes International, and on the advisory board of the International Fiscal Association’s (IFA) Rhine-Main-Neckar section.
Pia is the founder of the renowned Frankfurt International Tax Forum for the German section of the IFA, which she has been organizing and hosting for over 10 years.
Before joining Eversheds Sutherland in 2025, she worked for other renowned international law firms.
Pia is recognised by leading industry directories: Chambers Europe 2026 (Tax: Consultants in Germany, Band 2) and JUVE Steuermarkt 2026 recommended for corporate tax, tax structuring, and transactional taxes; additionally acknowledged by Lexology Index 2026 as ‘Recommended for Germany – Corporate Tax’ and ranked as Global Leader and National Leader.
- US corporation: Advising on the sale of real estate to an asset management entity
- Global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy: Several tax due diligences as well as SPA negotiations on wind park projects in the form of share deals and asset deals*
- Global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy: Vendor tax due diligences, tax structure paper on asset managing partnership as well as SPA negotiations on wind park projects*
- Family business in the publishing industry: Tax advice to a tribe of a family when leaving several partnerships including SPA negotiations*
- German industrial MNC: Tax advice regarding multinational acquisitions and negotiations of SPAs in the form of share deals and asset deals*
- German MNC: Tax advice on a de-SPAC transaction with a NASDAQ listing*
- German MNC listed on the SDAX: Tax advice on a Brazilian merger with a German ultimate beneficial owner*
- Stabilus: Advising on a conversion into the legal form of a European public limited liability company (SE) and the subsequent cross-border transfer of the registered office from Luxembourg to Germany, including overall project management*
- TELUS Digital: Tax advice to the Canadian telecommunication company on the acquisition of the outsourcing service provider Competence Call Center (CCC), as well as on the post-acquisition integration, including a cross-border inbound merger from Luxembourg*
- Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding: Tax advice on the purchase of the Maier Sports Group*
- VolkswagenStiftung: Tax advice on a refund of US withholding taxes given the organization is a nonprofit under a double-taxation treaty (including obtaining a private letter ruling in the US) as well as liaising with custodians on the reporting requirements*
- German pharmaceutical company and family owners: Tax advice on the drop-down of an operational business (with a foreign financing branch and shares in domestic and foreign subsidiaries, as well as real estate) into a subsidiary, with a conversion of the transferor from a KGaA into a GmbH, including obtaining a binding ruling*
- German family firm: Tax advice on the restructuring of the cosmetics division in order to implement a global structure, as well as advising on transfer pricing; tax advice on a management structure for the top group entity to ensure strategic guidance for all three (independent) business divisions and ensuring the status of a management holding in order to avoid exit taxation for foreign-based owners*
- Energy company: Tax advice on a carve out of the international venture capital business, with a focus on tax loss utilization and tax group termination within five years from its establishment*
- German S-DAX listed company: Tax advice in connection with strategies in order to avoid multiple taxations following tax audits abroad, such as a joint tax audit with France*
* advised before joining Eversheds Sutherland
- Chair of the WIN Seminar “Beyond the Transaction - Challenges in Taxation of M&A” at the 77th Congress of IFA in Lisbon from October 5-9, 2025, on October 8, 2025
- Speaker on “Aktuelle Fragen zur konzerninternen Finanzierung und Entschuldung,” Annual Training for the Certified Experts in International Tax, Steuerrechtsinsitut Knoll, Munich, November 23, 2024
- Conference Co-Chair and Panel-Co-Chair on “Inbound Investments into the United States,” ABA / IBA / IFA US Branch, 24th Annual U.S. and Europe Tax Practice Trends, Munich, April 11, 2024
- Speaker on Seminar F “IFA / EU” at the 75th Congress of IFA in Cancun, Mexico from October 22-26, 2023, on October 25, 2023
- Conference Co-Chair and Panel-Co-Chair on “Cross-Border Enforcement Trends: Taxpayer Responses to New Enforcement Strategies,” ABA / IBA / IFA US Branch, Virtual 22nd Annual U.S. and Europe Tax Practice Trends, March 30, 2022
- Moderator of webinar: “Tax Open Forum Discussion: What next for Pillar One?,” IBA, Taxes Committee, March 30, 2021
- Speaker on “Remaking International Tax for the 21st Century: Impact of and Outlook for OECD’s Evolving Pillars,” ABA / IBA / IFA US Branch, Virtual 21st Annual U.S. and Europe Tax Practice Trends, March 25, 2021
- Chambers, Germany, 2026: Tax: Individually ranked Band 2
- Who’s Who Legal, 2024: Recommended for Germany—Corporate Tax 2023, National Leader
- Chambers, Europe, 2025: Tax: Consultants in Germany, Band 2
- Who’s Who Legal, 2024: Recommended for Germany—Corporate Tax 2023, Global Leader
- JUVE Steuermarkt, 2025: most recommended for business taxation—tax structuring and project consulting as well as for transactional taxes
- “International Tax Law” Award by the German Tax Advisor Bar for Ph.D. thesis, 2004
- Founder of the Frankfurt International Tax Forum of the IFA Rhein-Main-Neckar Section
- Member of the Global Women of IFA Network (WIN) Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
- Country reporter for Germany, Subject II: Qualification of taxable entities and treaty protection, IFA Congress in Mumbai, India, 2014
- Panelist and Commentator on Undertaxed Payments Rule on behalf of the IBA Taxes Committee, OECD / G20 Inclusive Framework, (Online) Public Consultation Meeting on Pillar Two Blueprint, January 15, 2021
- Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, 2002, Dr. rer. pol.
- University of Mannheim, 1999, Exam in Business Administration (Diplom-Kauffrau)
- Certified expert for international Tax Law, Germany, 2024
- Certified tax advisor, Germany, 2003