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Top 25 Audit defense firms based in Germany

Name: Audit defense firms based in Germany
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026 3,568 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 3,568 audit defense firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 21,559 professional contacts across them, including 8,662 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers audit defense firms headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 30, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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21,559Contacts tracked

8,662Verified emails

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The 25 largest audit defense firms based in Germany

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 3,568 audit defense firms based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to audit defense firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	BDO Germany	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,576 contacts →
	Partial evidence “BDO is the leading entrepreneurial driven provider for audit and audit-related services, tax and business law consulting as well as advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
2	RSM Ebner Stolz	Indirect evidence	Stuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,442 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Wollen Sie jemanden, der Sie auch beim Sprung in neue Märkte und bei allen anstehenden Herausforderungen begleitet?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
3	WTS Deutschland	Indirect evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1,001-5,000	882 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “WTS ist ein globaler Full-Service Anbieter für Steuerberatungsleistungen und Financial & Deal Advisory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
4	Flick Gocke Schaumburg	Indirect evidence	Bonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	651 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Flick Gocke Schaumburg is an independent partnership of lawyers, tax advisors and auditors working with more than 320 professionals from offices in Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
5	DHPG	Partial evidence	Bonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1,001-5,000	460 contacts →
	Partial evidence “As an interdisciplinary medium-sized tax audit, accountancy and legal advice service we guarantee all-round high-quality consultation combined with a personal component.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
6	Ecovis Deutschland	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1,001-5,000	319 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Wir bei Ecovis sind Steuerberater, Wirtschaftsprüfer, Rechtsanwälte und Unternehmensberater.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
7	Möhrle Happ Luther	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	232 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MÖHRLE HAPP LUTHER is a multidisciplinary law firm in which auditors, tax advisors and attorneys work hand in hand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
8	Menold Bezler Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Wirtschaftsprüfer	Indirect evidence	Stuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	199 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Menold Bezler is an independent business law firm based in Stuttgart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
9	ADS Allgemeine Deutsche Steuerberatungsgesellschaft MBH	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	198 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Die ADS Steuer.Beratung ist Ihr spezialisierter Partner für ganzheitliche Steuerberatung – exklusiv für Unternehmen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
10	Dornbach	Indirect evidence	Koblenz, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	186 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “DORNBACH ist eine überregional tätige Unternehmensgruppe in den Bereichen Wirtschaftsprüfung, Steuerberatung, Rechtsberatung und Unternehmensberatung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
11	Ecovis KSO	Partial evidence	Düsseldorf, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	168 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Tax Advisory, Legal Advisory, Audit & Business Consulting Four disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
12	Falk Gmbh & CO KG	Partial evidence	Heidelberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	162 contacts →
	Partial evidence “FALK For over 80 years FALK has been in existence as an independent audit, accounting and tax advisory firm with more than 400 employees throughout 10 national offices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
13	PKF WMS	Indirect evidence	Osnabrück, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	137 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Die Philosophie unserer Sozietät lässt sich in drei Worten zusammenfassen: „Werte Menschen Strategien“ Denn um nichts anderes geht es bei unserer täglichen Arbeit: um Werte, die…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
14	Esche Schümann Commichau	Indirect evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	130 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Verlässlich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
15	Dr. Kleeberg & Partner Gmbh WPG Stbg	Indirect evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	110 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Kleeberg is a national and internationally active auditing and tax consulting firm based in Munich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
16	SGP Schneider Geiwitz	Indirect evidence	Ulm, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	99 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SGP Schneider Geiwitz has been supporting companies for more than 40 years and is established in 25 locations with more than 400 members of staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
17	HWS Gmbh & Co. KG	Indirect evidence	Stuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	97 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “HWS is the best partner for medium sized enterprises, family companies, freelancers and private persons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
18	AC Christes & Partner Gmbh	Partial evidence	Hamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	51-200	95 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AC CHRISTES & PARTNER GmbH is an audit and tax advisory company specialized on the support of Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial and Tax Due Diligences, Tax Structuring etc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
19	Moore TK	Indirect evidence	Mannheim, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	90 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With more than 130 specialists at five locations in Germany and Luxembourg, Moore TK offers a wide range of individual consulting services in the areas of auditing, tax advisory…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
20	Husemann	Indirect evidence	Dortmund, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	51-200	90 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Wir sind eine Wirtschaftskanzlei an den Standorten Dortmund, Düsseldorf und Mülheim an der Ruhr mit Insolvenzverwalterbüros in Aachen, Köln, Münster, Recklinghausen, Viersen und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
21	Dhmp Next Gmbh & Co. KG	Indirect evidence	Karlsruhe, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	88 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “dhmp – auch wenn es komplex wird Seit mehr als 50 Jahren sind wir unabhängige Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mit den Beratungsfeldern Steuern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
22	LKC	Indirect evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	501-1,000	75 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “LKC - einer der 25 führenden Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaften in Deutschland Bei uns freuen sich über 600 hochmotivierte, engagierte und gut gelaunte…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
23	Acconsis	Indirect evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	51-200	74 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Unternehmerische Realität ist selten eine gerade Linie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
24	Ypsilon Group	Partial evidence	Cologne, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Ypsilon ist ein junges, inhabergeführtes Beratungsunternehmen mit drei integrierten Geschäftsbereichen – Tax, Audit & Advisory – und mehr als 220 hochqualifizierte…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
25	BW Partner	Indirect evidence	Stuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	201-500	70 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BW PARTNER – geleitet von Zahlen und inspiriert von Visionen, gestalten wir die Zukunft unserer Mandanten und fördern die Karrieren unserer Mitarbeiter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: audit defense firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names audit defense firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of audit defense firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name audit defense firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Audit defense firms based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 30, 2026

40.2%Verified-email coverage

6.0Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

5.2%Largest-city concentration · Berlin

Sep 30, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,595

11-50

1,408

51-200

319

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 3,568 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among audit defense firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “audit defense firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names audit defense firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among audit defense firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 8,662 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Audit defense firms by metro

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names audit defense firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many audit defense firms are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 3,568 audit defense firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

BDO Germany, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most audit defense firms?

Berlin leads with 187 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (173) and Hamburg (144).

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How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.