Maike Rohwer
Areas of practice
Maike Rohwer primarily provides international tax advisory services to companies, institutional investors and individuals. She has worked on numerous transactions, M&A and restructuring projects. She has a broad knowledge of Malaysia taxation, including corporate tax, individual tax, capital gains tax, sales tax and service tax.
Vita
Maike Rohwer started her career in German Revenue Service and a state Ministry of Finance. After taking the Tax Advisor exam, she joined a tax professional body in Germany, providing support to other tax advisors. Subsequently, she joined a BigFour company in the Middle East where she was mostly dealing with tax aspects of international M&A. She then worked in Germany in the transaction tax team of that BigFour company. She moved on to a BigFour company Malaysia and joined their international corporate tax and transactions team. For eight years, she advised on cross-border related matters, restructurings and M&A (including tax due diligence and tax structuring). She joined Luther Malaysia in 2025.
Publications
- Setting up a Business in Malaysia (together with Lukas Kirchhof, LL.M. (Hong Kong), Shi Yin Khoo, M.A. (Cantab), Julie Schwarz, LL.M. (Georgetown), Lukas Edwin Schoen, Eva Steinmüller)
- Malaysia: Budget 2026, in: Internationale Steuer-Rundschau – Länderberichte (IStR-LB) 2026, S. 13–15 (Lukas Kirchhof und Maike Rohwer gemeinsam mit Dr. Knut Unger, und David Martiny) (together with Dr Knut Unger, David Martiny, Lukas Kirchhof, LL.M. (Hong Kong))
Senior Tax Manager
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Maike Rohwer
Senior Tax Manager
Kuala Lumpur
Julie Schwarz, LL.M. (Georgetown)
Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Lukas Edwin Schoen
Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Eva Steinmüller
Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Shi Yin Khoo, M.A. (Cantab)
Senior Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Lukas Kirchhof, LL.M. (Hong Kong)
Counsel
Kuala Lumpur
Rosanna Mongelli
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Dominik Ledwon, LL.M. (Norwich)
Senior Associate
Cologne
Peter Holan
Associate
Hamburg
Igesa Andrea
Senior Associate
Luxembourg
Alina Kühn
Associate
Essen
Johannes Kugler
Associate
Munich
Linda Krziwon
Associate
Berlin
Pieter Krüger, Mag. iur.
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Gina Susann Kriwat
Associate
Cologne
Dr Maximilian Kressner, M.Jur. (Oxford)
Partner
Singapore
Dr. Daniel Krauspenhaar
Partner
Luxembourg