Private Clients

We advise private clients, family companies, foundations and family offices on asset structuring and succession issues. Our team of specialist lawyers and tax consultants offers discreet and professional advice to help you protect and preserve your personal and business assets.

Advice from specialist lawyers and tax consultants is especially important for high-net-worth individuals, business owners and families looking to establish an optimal legal and tax framework for their personal or business assets. This requires reliable and experienced experts who can advise and represent private clients in all matters relating to structuring of their assets.

Our Private Clients Practice Group is an interdisciplinary team of lawyers and tax consultants who advise private individuals on all personal, legal, and tax-related matters. The national and international private clients we advise include not only high-net-worth families and individuals, but also successful young entrepreneurs and senior corporate executives.

Our range of services for private clients

In our advisory work we support clients on all aspects of international inheritance law, structuring of wills and contracts of inheritance, and advance healthcare directives and durable powers of attorney. Our work also encompasses advice on family law, drafting of prenuptial agreements, and representation in divorce proceedings.

Other areas of focus are:

private tax planning,
advice on the acquisition, sale, and restructuring of capital investments, companies and real estate,
advice on issues of company law, inheritance law, and tax law in relation to corporate succession planning,
advice on personal succession planning,
preparation of inheritance tax and gift tax returns and representation in related opposition proceedings and litigation,
establishment of and support for foundations,
advice and representation for sole and joint heirs and partitioning of communities of heirs under German inheritance law ,
Assertion and defense of compulsory portion inheritance claims.

Our experienced lawyers for private clients can provide you with comprehensive and reliable advice on all family law and financial matters. We are mindful of the sensitivity of the information you share with us and will act with professional discretion and expertise in our work for you.