Law firm Lovells has hired Christoph Küppers, a former partner at KPMG, as a tax partner in the Düsseldorf office.

Küppers is qualified as a lawyer, tax adviser and chartered accountant who specialises in corporate and insurance industry tax work. While at KPMG he was chairman of the national tax insurance network in Germany. He joined KPMG in 1994. Prior to that he was at Arthur Anderson.