We help you to organise and prepare for generational change within your company. Working closely with you, we compile suitable succession planning provisions.

Tradition is a valuable asset. Taking over and continuing an established company may therefore make more sense than founding a new one. We work with you to analyse the legal risks and then develop suitable strategies.

Our expert lawyers are also at your disposal where inheritance disputes, claims to a compulsory share, contracts of inheritance, and usufructuary rights are concerned. Here, we work with you to draft wills and estates in accordance with your wishes, making all the preparations necessary to ensure that the respective affairs can be dealt with smoothly after death.

We can also provide you with expert advice and support with regard to enduring powers of attorney and living wills.

And for questions regarding French inheritance law and support in handling inheritance cases with a French connection, you can avail of our French lawyer team.

Are you planning to set up a foundation? Our wide-ranging expertise in this area spans tasks such as defining the foundation’s purpose, registering the foundation with the pertinent authorities, obtaining the requisite certifications and licenses, and much more.

Do you already have a foundation? Then we can help you with any matters of an organisational nature or in putting your plans into action. This is a field we know very well, not least thanks to our lawyers’ work on the advisory councils and boards of trustees of various foundations.

The event of an inheritance may be overwhelming for the heirs    or may prompt  disagreement on matters relating to the estate. In your last will and testament you stipulate the distribution of your estate’s assets amongst your heirs  If you intend to ensure that s  the estate is administered and settled according to your wishes ,  disputes among the heirs are prevented and   your heirs are relieved from the burden of having to deal with legal intricacies , you should  entrust the task of executing your last will to an executor. The appointment of an executor  can be made r during your lifetime.

An executor is   frequently appointed when the  estate comprises   complex next-of-kin  and asset structures as well as  to ensure business successions.

We are happy to advise you on questions relating to the execution of wills under German law.