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    Private Clients & Foundations

    Special legal and tax challenges compound the structure and management of assets. We work closely with you to provide comprehensive, holistic advice. We advise on the safeguarding and transfer of private and business assets. In addition to our extensive expertise in succession, tax and corporate law, we can provide comprehensive advice on foundation law and all other areas of law which play a role in asset planning and corporate succession.

    We offer comprehensive, custom advice on all issues – whether of a legal, tax or business nature – from one source.

    Private individuals

    We provide private individuals with comprehensive advice on all asset and succession planning issues for private and corporate assets, including the related tax and corporate law aspects.

    Foundations & charities

    We advise tax-privileged organisations on non-profit law and foundations of all forms and types, especially dependent foundations, on all legal, tax and organisational issues. We consider all relevant legal areas to develop and implement holistic concepts and provide lasting support. Our lawyers, tax advisers, foundation managers, tax clerks and accountants share your enthusiasm for the work of foundations. We bring together specialist knowledge with many years of experience.

    Family Offices

    Family offices play a key role in our specialised practice. We support our clients in all aspects, from classical asset and succession planning to corporate and supervisory law issues, especially in relation to transactions. We strive to create strategic, tactical, and operative measures to help you obtain sustainable value-added benefits.

    Family-owned companies

    We have advised family-owned companies for many years and understand your needs and goals. Our sector expertise makes us an experienced contact partner for every issue you face. We can advise you on operative events and strategic and promising topics, helping you to implement your ideas and utilise opportunities.

    Focus

    Succession

    We provide you with comprehensive legal and tax advice on asset structuring and succession planning options while preserving the core corporate assets, such as the transfer of private and corporate assets to foundations or the next generation of family members and intergenerational asset planning.

    Art

    We advise artists, collectors, foundations, galleries, auction houses, museums, and traders on the diverse topics of art law, collection management and bequests by artists. We work closely with colleagues from our Digital, Media & Technology team to provide you with holistic advice. You can find more information here: Digital, Media & Technology

    Dispute Resolution

    Our focus is safeguarding family assets. We can advise you on corporate and family agreements and are at your side with dispute settlement strategies, such as mediation or arbitration. Where necessary, we can also represent you in court proceedings.

    Marital asset agreements, contracts of inheritance, last wills and testaments and inheritance tax law

    We develop custom concepts for succession planning and support you in preparing testamentary dispositions, such as last wills and testaments or contracts of inheritance. We advise you on marital assets agreements and matrimonial property swing structures (Güterstandsschaukel), on anticipated inheritance or endowments, as well as on the use of the structuring options available under tax law in the case of succession.

    Professionals

    Dusseldorf
    Nico Frielinghaus
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater
    Partner
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    Munich
    Adrienne Bauer
    Rechtsanwältin
    Associate
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    Freiburg
    Dr Jan Barth
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Munich
    Dr Joachim Reichenberger
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, LL.M., EMBA (Washington D.C.)
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Jan-Moritz Degener
    Rechtsanwalt, Business Graduate, Certified Foundation Consultant
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Prof. Dr Hans-Josef Vogel
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Dr Georg Tolksdorf
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M. Taxation
    Partner
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    Munich
    Moritz Kopp
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M.
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Klaus Zimmermann
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Dr Esther Kindler
    Rechtsanwältin, Licensed Specialist for Law of Succession, Registered Executor of Wills (DVEV)
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Julian Niederlein
    Rechtsanwalt, Certified AML & Anti Fraud Officer
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Dr Lucas van Randenborgh
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Sarah Heinrichs
    Rechtsanwältin
    Senior Associate
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    Berlin
    Dr Fedor Seifert
    Rechtsanwalt, Notar a.D., Licensed Specialist for Intellectual Property Law
    Of Counsel
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    Freiburg
    Stephan Strubinger
    Rechtsanwalt, Dipl. Rechtspfleger (FH)
    Senior Associate
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    Munich
    Dr Daniel Walden
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Freiburg
    Dr Moritz Jenne
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Hanna Günther
    Rechtsanwältin, LL.M.
    Senior Associate
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Katharina Fink
    Rechtsanwältin
    Partner
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    Berlin
    Dr Karl-Dieter Müller
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Gerrit Ponath
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Law of Succession, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law, Certified Executor (AGT)
    Partner
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    Munich
    Chiara-Lucia Peterhammer
    Rechtsanwältin
    Senior Associate
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    Munich
    Dr Axel Goetz
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M.
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Hermann Bopp
    Bilanzbuchhalter
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    Munich
    Valerie Hoffmann
    Rechtsanwältin
    Senior Associate
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    Munich
    Heiko Wunderlich
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law, Licensed Specialist for Law of Succession, Certified Company Succession Consultant (zentUma), Certified Executor (AGT)
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Martin Seevers
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, LL.M. Tax (USA)
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Christoph Schmitt
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Markus P. Linnartz
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M., Steuerberater
    Partner
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    Hamburg
    Maximilian Steffen
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Senior Associate
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    Berlin
    Robert Schmid
    Rechtsanwalt
    Senior Associate
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    Dusseldorf
    Dr Martin Rappert
    Rechtsanwalt, MBA
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Jason Komninos
    Rechtsanwalt, LL.M., Licensed Specialist for Information Technology Law
    Senior Associate
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Stefan Raddatz
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf - Hamburg
    Dr Guido Krüger
    Rechtsanwalt, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Partner
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    Munich
    Dr. Florian Weichselgärtner
    Rechtsanwalt, Wirtschaftsmediator (CVM)
    Partner
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    Frankfurt/Main
    Dr Mario Riechmann
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Freiburg
    Lisa Werle
    Rechtsanwältin, Licensed Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law
    Partner
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    Munich
    Roland Startz
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Dr Winfried Richardt
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner
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    Dusseldorf
    Axel Reimann
    Stiftungsmanager, M.A. Taxation
    Associate
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    Munich
    Dr Michael Hils
    Rechtsanwalt, Steuerberater, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
    Partner
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