Business & Estate Succession

When planning and structuring succession in owner-managed businesses, you can rely on our many years of experience, our recognised expertise in corporate law, inheritance law, and tax law, and our particular sensitivity to the human and social dimensions involved. We involve your auditors, tax advisors, and financing banks in the complex structuring process. In consultation with you, our cooperation partners from the HLB Dr. Dienst & Partner Group are also available to provide bespoke individual solutions.

• Selection and involvement of the successor (family / external)
• Optimisation of the corporate law structure (legal form, articles of association)
• Inheritance law structuring (business owner's will, compulsory share law)
• Tax planning and optimisation (inheritance tax, gift tax reform)
• Business sale – due diligence, purchase agreement, completion
• Wealth succession and estate planning
• Tax-efficient foundation solutions
• Establishment of family companies and family investment pools