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Our consulting services are as diverse as life itself.
As an entrepreneur, owner family, high net worth individual, foundation or family office, are you looking for comprehensive advice on your private affairs?
We are here for you: we have the right experts for almost every situation in life. For many years, our clients have trusted us with their affairs such as family constitution, family (corporate) governance, succession, induction of the next generation, disputes within the family, corporate succession, unwelcome press coverage, social commitment or special assets (e.g. real estate, shareholdings, art, vintage cars, aircraft, hunting rights, yachts). We find you the right solutions - discreetly, reliably and in constant dialogue with all parties involved.
You will benefit from our full-service consulting services. Our experts come, in particular, from the fields of tax and non-profit law, corporate and insolvency law, association and foundation law, transaction law, press law, litigation and dispute resolution, employment law, real estate law, public law, IT law and data protection, as well as contract law.
With our outstanding international and interdisciplinary network of renowned partners, we are ideally positioned to handle all the affairs of our demanding clients and to find efficient solutions.
Our advisory services in the private clients sector include:
Personal protective measures and family
- Establishment and reorganisation of family companies, asset management companies and family foundations
- Family constitutions, family (business) governance concepts and family education
- Wealth succession (gifts and inheritance) with a special focus on the appropriate tax optimisation, asset protection and preservation of family assets as well as financial security for surviving dependants
- Legal and practical support in (international) inheritance disputes and estate settlements
- Mediation in family disputes
- Marriage and partnership contracts
- Due diligence under inheritance law
- Protection against private or business-related incapacity to act through individual (lasting) powers of attorney, guardianship directives and living wills as well as adjustments to shareholdings and memberships
- (Family) privacy – protecting one's own privacy as well as the privacy of family members by evaluating, monitoring, retrieving and avoiding publicly viewable data. Action against unwelcome press coverage
- Cyber-attacks (prevention and defence, together with our expert network ENUR)
Companies
- National and international establishment or reorganisation of your company. Mergers
- Optimisation of corporate organisation and corporate governance
- Acquisition and sale of companies or interests in companies
- Company disputes, especially among family members
- Corporate succession:
Gifts and inheritance with special attention to tax optimisation and asset protection;
Sale of the company, if necessary with tax-optimised re-investment or with measures of anticipated succession
Non-profit status and other consulting focal points
- Advice on charitable engagements, taking into account national and international tax charity law
- Foundation and ongoing consulting of non-profit organisations
- Real estate transactions as well as the structuring of family real estate assets
- Preservation of art and private collections including advice on tax particularities and copyright issues
- Advice on shareholding and operating structures under aviation law and tax law, in particular on the establishment and optimisation of operator concepts for non-commercial air traffic
We also offer a range of innovative consulting approaches:
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Reform of guardianship and care law: legal transactions by minors
In practice, legal transactions by minors frequently require more effort in terms of their justification and organisation. The reform of guardianship and care law will make several aspects of this easier. Other legal transactions will require approval for the first time.
Private ClientsSuccession, Wealth and Foundations / Tax Law28.04.2023 Newsletter
German Federal Fiscal Court about corporate succession: caution still required in case of full exemption
Last year, the German Federal Fiscal Court [Bundesfinanzhof, BFH] ruled that when companies are transferred to the next generation, an application for so-called full exemption can be made for each individual transferred company (= economic unit). It thus rejected the previous view held by the tax authorities (ruling dated 26 July 2022 - II R 25/20).
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German Federal Fiscal Court: no limited inheritance tax liability in case of an acquisition of a domestic real estate by bequest
The German Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) ruled on 23 November 2022 that real estate located in Germany can be transferred tax-free by way of foreign bequest if neither the testator nor the beneficiary have their domicile or habitual residence in Germany. In the case of German nationals, an additional prerequisite is that they already gave up their domicile or habitual residence in Germany over five years ago.