Baker Tilly Appoints 12 New Directors

With the appointment of twelve new Directors in the areas of Audit & Advisory, Tax and Legal, Baker Tilly is sending a clear signal of further growth. These internal promotions not only reflect the high level of expertise and commitment of the colleagues, but also the company’s ambition to purposefully foster and retain talent in the long term. By strengthening the group of Directors, the international audit and advisory firm is laying the foundation to further expand its broad service portfolio and to meet the increasing demands of the market.

We congratulate our new Directors:

Tax Advisor Paolo Aulisio joined Baker Tilly in January 2023 after moving from a Big Four firm and has since been based in Stuttgart. His professional focus lies in tax consulting for national and international companies, tax compliance, and the preparation of annual financial statements. In addition, he supports multinational companies in the area of tax accounting.

Lilia Bornemann, Certified Fraud Manager (CFM), has been with Baker Tilly in Hamburg since 2023. She advises primarily medium-sized production, trade, and service companies as well as financial services providers. In addition to IT and process audits in the context of annual audits and project support during system migrations (IDW PS 850), her focus lies in developing and conducting data analyses with an emphasis on accounting.

Attorney-at-law Bernd Conrad is based at Baker Tilly in Düsseldorf. Since 2013, he has been active in the field of Corporate / M&A and has accompanied numerous transactions and projects for national and international clients as part of the team led by Düsseldorf Partner Bernhard Rehbein. He is a recognized expert in national and cross-border transformation law and in post-M&A disputes/litigation.

Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor Stefanie Hartmann has been with the company since 2002. She is part of the Baker Tilly team in Hamburg and primarily supports clients from the industrial and trade sectors as well as investment funds and fund management companies. Her main focus lies on auditing annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with national (HGB) and international accounting standards (IFRS).

Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor Kerstin Jarsch has been with Baker Tilly in Munich since 1998 and has extensive experience in the field of Corporate Tax. She primarily advises medium-sized companies, especially German subsidiaries of international groups. Her advisory focus is on comprehensive tax support for corporations, particularly in the software industry.

Frédéric Jules Lingier, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), joined Baker Tilly in Düsseldorf in 2023. He has extensive experience in the private equity, financial services, automotive and renewables sectors. His key areas of work include transaction advisory and business valuation.

Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor Jana Lübben has been based in Hamburg since 2005. She primarily audits companies in the retail and distribution, service, maritime, catering and logistics sectors. Her professional focus includes auditing annual and consolidated financial statements, as well as providing audit-related advisory services to medium-sized companies—both nationally and internationally. She is also a member of the examination board for the Certified Public Accountant exam and the “Fachwirt Wirtschaftsprüfung.”

Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor Daniel Ninnemann began his career at Baker Tilly in Munich more than ten years ago, directly after completing his studies. He primarily works on group audits under IFRS for corporate groups in the PIE segment and has particular experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech, mechanical engineering, and mail-order sectors.

Marco Pampanin has been part of the Corporate Tax Team in Munich since October 2013. He is a Tax Advisor and a Specialist Advisor for International Tax Law. His key areas of expertise are group taxation and corporate tax law, including both compliance services and structuring advice. He supports internationally active medium-sized corporate groups and publicly listed clients in all matters of national and international corporate tax law, in both inbound and outbound cases.

Sabrina Rettenmayr is a Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor at Baker Tilly in Munich with more than 15 years of professional experience in auditing annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with commercial law principles and IFRS. She supports both national and international companies in the media, manufacturing, trade, and software services sectors. In addition, she is passionately committed to the training and development of colleagues and helps organize the Baker Tilly Career Days in Munich.

Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisor Patrick Schmarje works at Baker Tilly in Hamburg and has more than 13 years of experience in auditing financial institutions, financial service providers, insurance companies and pension funds. Since 2024, he has been part of the National Office, where he is primarily responsible for the technical oversight of financial services, A&A quality management, and cooperation projects with the Freier Genossenschaftsverband (FGV).

Attorney-at-law Paul Zimdahl has been with Baker Tilly in Leipzig since 2021 and is part of the Munich litigation team led by Dr. Gertraud Bauer. His advisory focus lies in out-of-court dispute resolution and litigation in national and internationally-oriented proceedings before state courts and arbitral tribunals. He advises and represents clients primarily in complex and technically oriented matters, particularly in post-M&A disputes, shareholder conflicts, and liability cases.