Family-owned Businesses & Private Clients

• Structuring family-owned companies
• Ownership structures, shareholder groups
• Corporate governance
• Advisory board and supervisory board, management, shareholder rights
• Pooling agreements, shareholder agreements
• Family governance
• Purchase and sale of family-owned businesses and investments
• Transparency register and other reporting obligations

For more information, see also Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets.

• Optimising tax structures in family-owned businesses, private clients and foundations
• Inheritance tax structuring
• Supporting company audits
• Tax objection and appeal proceedings
• Valuation of partnerships, commercial partnerships and corporations
• International residences, relocation, incoming and exit taxation
• International tax law and double taxation treaties
• Tax compliance
• Fund structuring and fund investments
• Trust structures 

For more information, see Tax. 

• Structuring
• Tax
• Family offices
• Asset protection
• Prenuptial or postnuptial agreements, international marriages
• Living wills 

• Tax-optimised asset and corporate succession
• Succession during lifetime and in the case of death
• Gifts, anticipated succession
• Usufruct arrangements
• Wills and inheritance contracts
• Execution of wills
• Law on compulsory portions of estates
• Inheritance disputes, probate proceedings, international inheritance cases
• Foundation and trust arrangements
• International estate planning
• Adoption 

• Advising donors, foundations and foundation committees
• Setting up foundations, donations and sponsorship
• Providing ongoing advice, disputes in foundation bodies, structural changes
• Foundation governance
• Foundation tax law, charity law
• Private-benefit foundations, family foundations, charitable foundations
• Non-profit companies (gGmbHs etc.)
• Dual foundations and other arrangements
• Foreign foundations and trusts 

• Single and multi-family offices
• Setup and structure
• Comprehensive legal and tax advice
• Purchase and sale of companies and participations (mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital)
• Fund structuring and fund investments
• Regulatory law
• Structuring real estate assets and real estate transactions
• Asset protection

• Shareholder disputes
• Assisting at contentious general meetings
• Disputes in corporate bodies, liability
• Inheritance law disputes between heirs, legatees and beneficiaries of compulsory portions
• Litigation before state and arbitration courts, mediation 

For more information, see also Corporate & Financial Litigation and Arbitration.  

Our clients benefit from our full-service approach with advice in almost all areas of law and industry sectors in tackling the major challenges of our time and beyond this. 

• Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
• Cyber Risks
• Digital Business, IT & Outsourcing and Data Privacy
• Compliance & Investigations
• Commerce & Trade
• International Trade & Investment Controls 

For more information on our full-service approach, go to Expertise.