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Business succession, wealth management, foundations

We offer customised and confidential advice to entrepreneurs, family-owned companies and high net worth individuals. Our focus is on legal and tax issues related to succession planning and the structuring and preservation of assets and companies.

We protect your assets – sustainably

Well connected cross-border experts

Our experienced team of lawyers and tax advisors offers entrepreneurs, family-owned companies and high net worth individuals comprehensive advice on all matters of succession, asset and foundation structuring. We support you in particular in corporate, foundation, tax, family and inheritance law. A particular focus is on tax-optimised planning and implementation of your succession as well as the structuring of your assets and company. In addition, we advise you on complex investment structures, the establishment of residences abroad and help you in solving family and shareholder disputes.
 

Comprehensive advice from a single source

As a full-service law firm, we offer you comprehensive advice from experts in the respective fields of law. Thanks to our interdisciplinary approach, we cover all relevant areas of law and develop customised, flexible solutions that are perfectly tailored to your individual situation. We also maintain close partnerships with leading international law firms, enabling us to provide you with expert support even in complex cross-border matters.
Our comprehensive advice from a single source helps you to achieve your individual long-term goals and interests with regard to your assets, your company and your family in a sustainable manner.

We can be trusted with your assets

With their many years of experience, our advisors are very familiar with the complex legal, tax and family-related challenges in this sensitive area. Our advice is based on a trusting relationship with our clients and aims to develop comprehensive succession planning that optimally adapts the legal and tax structuring options to the individual situation of our clients.

Our advisory specialisations

  • Advising entrepreneurs, family-owned companies, family offices and high net worth individuals (private clients)
  • Structuring and negotiating company and asset succession arrangements under corporate law, including structuring and negotiating pooling agreements, advising on the structuring of family-owned companies and on the development of individual company succession concepts
  • Tax structuring of succession and assets (including inheritance and gift tax law as well as reorganisation tax law)
  • Legal and tax advice on the establishment and support of foundations (family foundations and charitable foundations)
  • Non-profit law
  • Advice on inheritance and family law, in particular on the drafting of prenuptial agreements, wills and inheritance contracts, on the right to a compulsory portion, on anticipated succession and on gifts
  • Restructuring of family businesses in preparation for internal or external succession
  • Sale of companies (including management buy-outs)
  • International succession planning (e.g. moving abroad)
  • Cross-border gifts and asset transfers
  • Legal issues in connection with the transparency register
  • Advice in the context of corporate disputes

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With "Der Unternehmerjurist" GÖRG presents its latest regular video format. The ten-minute videos address practical questions of medium-sized entrepreneurs and show possible solutions from the entrepreneur's point of view presented by Dr. Thomas Winkemann.*

 

Watch now on YouTube!

 

* Please note that the videos are only avavilable in German.

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