Audit & Advisory. Tax. Legal. Consulting.
Baker Tilly offers you a broad range of individual and innovative consulting services in the areas of Audit & Advisory, Tax, Legal and Consulting.
Globally and in Germany, our accountants, lawyers, tax advisors and management consultants develop solutions which are precisely tailored to the individual needs of our clients and implement them with the highest standards of quality and efficiency.
Thus, 4 points of view become 1 solution – not only in Germany, but all over the world.
Our overarching goal is to protect and enhance the values and assets of our clients. To this end, we provide the right framework conditions in order to identify and manage both internal and external risks at an early stage and to exploit opportunities and potential for economic growth.
Baker Tilly’s advisory services are primarily targeted at large, international medium-sized companies.
Our success factors can be summarized quickly: a particularly high consulting quality, recommendations that are holistically formulated and coherent from a legal, economic and tax perspective, and a fundamental entrepreneurial understanding.
Like many of our clients we are independent entrepreneurs all over the world. Every day, we are responsible for success and growth. For ourselves and for the companies we advise.
In our Competence Centers and Industry Teams, we do not offer prefabricated consulting concepts, but use our knowledge and experience to develop individual solutions.
This often requires expert knowledge, and no two industries are the same. They all have their own developments, framework conditions and regulatory requirements. Therefore, it is all the more important to combine industry know-how with technical expertise and the specialist knowledge of accountants, lawyers, tax advisors and management consultants.
Thus, we combine professional specialization and industry know-how with geographical proximity to our clients. This very approach allows us to find very specific answers to very specific questions. Accordingly, we have created the best conditions with our Competence Centers and Industry Teams to use our knowledge and experience in order to develop individual solutions that offer you real added value.
As cross-company management body in Germany, the Baker Tilly Management Board is responsible for developing and implementing the Group strategy and coordinating the overarching service areas (from left to right):
You think and act internationally – and so do we.
For many of our clients, the global market is their second home. For others, it is a tangible opportunity. Our engagement partners put together interdisciplinary teams of specialists who precisely meet the respective project requirements – in Germany and, of course, also for cross-border projects through our global Baker Tilly International network.
As an independent member of the global top 10 professional services network Baker Tilly International, Baker Tilly Germany is represented in 141 countries worldwide: In all regions of the world, 43,000 employees at 658 locations generate a total turnover of 5.2 billion US dollars (2023).
We are your reliable international partner who not only maintains many offices, but first and foremost personal relationships – with an eye for the key challenges of the market: worldwide and right next to you in Germany.
Further information on our Baker Tilly International network can be found here
“For me, a global footprint means being represented wherever our clients need us. With a central, personal contact here on site and international teams with consistently excellent expertise and the highest standards of quality and the effectiveness of our solutions.“
Ralf Gröning
Managing Partner
German CPA, Tax Advisor
The Baker Tilly synergy formula transforms 4 points of view into one solution which is much more than just 4 individual solutions. After all, hardly any accounting issue can be resolved without legal questions; almost every restructuring must also be structured from a tax perspective – with knowledge and a sense of proportion. For Baker Tilly, this is a matter of course.
Therefore, interdisciplinarity is not just a reasonable add-on, but the core element of our consulting approach. The engagement partners therefore always ask themselves the key questions: “What does the ideal team look like? Which specialist will strengthen our team? Whose specialist knowledge could add the decisive element for us to excel?”
This not only means better advice. It makes the coordination of our teams more efficient and improves the cost-benefit ratio for our clients.
"The collaboration between our four professional groups is a core element of Baker Tilly. In our interdisciplinary teams, everyone has to fulfill their role to ensure perfect interaction. This results in a solution from different perspectives and gains our clients' trust in the added value and quality of our results."
Dr. Thomas Gemmeke
Managing Partner Legal
Attorney-at-Law
Every decision always requires trust. We are not only professional experts, but also entrepreneurs. Therefore, we know: The most important decisions are never made without a certain degree of uncertainty. Even with hundreds of written pages and many days of analysis and evaluation, the right path is not defined by hard figures, but by an entrepreneurial decision.
In such moments, Baker Tilly’s entrepreneurial consulting approach is of vital importance. Discussions from entrepreneur to entrepreneur, the open and direct personal exchange between advisor and client are important aspects of successful cooperation.
It is our self-conception as consultants not only to analyze, but also to formulate crystal-clear recommendations. With no ifs, ands or buts. We only make recommendations that we really stand by. This is how reliability creates trust in our solutions.
"I am a tax advisor and lawyer – but also an entrepreneur with a great responsibility to ensure that our solutions are the right ones: solutions we develop with and for our clients and which are based on our personal assessment and experience. Therefore, many of my consultations start with the words: ‘If I were you, I would follow this course…"
Oliver Hubertus
Managing Partner Tax
Tax Advisor, Attorney-at-Law
As consultants and auditors, we firmly believe that quality is the basis for a trusting working relationship.
Without your trust in our quality, we cannot convince you of our solutions on which we place the entrepreneurial claim of serving you as reliable decision support. Without your trust in our quality, we cannot convince you of our pragmatic approach to provide you with customized solutions. And without your trust in our quality, our partners and employees will not be able to dedicate their full commitment and motivation to auditing and advising you in order to develop the best possible solution for you and your company.
The combination of excellence in both work and service quality results in solutions that you can trust. We therefore aspire to be among the best and strive for quality leadership in consulting and auditing.
To that end, we go the extra mile:
„Quality is the basis for our international, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approach. Your trust in our quality enables us to provide you with reliable, pragmatic and committed advice – in other words, to find the best solutions – tailormade and very promptly.“
Prof. Dr. Thomas Edenhofer
Managing Partner Audit & Advisory
German CPA, Tax Advisor
1870
Baker Tilly’s origins go back to the British company Walter Howard in 1870.
1910
In Germany, we can trace our origins back to 1910 and the formation of the Düsseldorf trust company Altenburg & Tewes OHG.
1979
The single tax consulting practice Jochen Rölfs is established in Düsseldorf.
1987
50 companies from 20 different countries jointly form the global network Summit International Associates, Inc.
1988
The merger of Howard Tilly and Baker Rooke forms Baker Tilly in London.
2000
The global network moves its headquarters from New York to London.
2002
With the ambition to develop a global brand, the global network changes its name to Baker Tilly International, thus adopting the name of its then British member firm Baker Tilly.
Baker Tilly International is mentioned for the first time in the International Accounting Bulletin’s World Survey’s Top Ten.
2005
RölfsPartner joins the global Baker Tilly International network as independent member.
2007
Baker Tilly International expands its presence to over 100 countries worldwide.
2010
In Germany, RölfsPartner merges with RP Richter & Partner.
2013
RölfsPartner changes its name to Baker Tilly Roelfs – later Baker Tilly.
2017
In Germany, awarded “JUVE Tax Consultancy of the Year”.
2018
Brand relaunch: Introduction of the new global logo and the slogan “Now, for tomorrow.”
2023
Baker Tilly International is named Network of the Year for the second time at the International Accounting Forum & Awards 2023.
2024
Baker Tilly is included in the top ten best-performing auditors in Germany for the second time by the WGMB institute and manager magazin.
