The success of your company is something you want to secure in the long term, beyond your own activities. For this, not only the selection of a suitable successor at the top of the company is decisive. The appropriate legal framework can be just as important. Especially when it comes to companies, it is advisable to initiate the succession already during your lifetime, to design it prudently and to communicate it. Not only for reasons of planning. Furthermore, company law and inheritance law regulations must fit together.

We have extensive experience in supporting family businesses, often across generations. Therefore, we know your special needs. Together with you, we develop a tailor-made succession strategy. We create the adequate legal framework and assist you with internal family communication.

Preserving the company for generations. With the right advice:

• Succession advice and planning
• Drafting of transfer agreements and support in family-internal communication
• Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
• Restructuring of companies and groups in the context of succession planning
• Establishment of foundations, endowments
• International private law succession issues
• Drafting testamentary dispositions (wills, contracts of inheritance)
• Execution of wills