corporate
tax

Inheritance tax / estate planning / business succession

Sections 13a – 13c of the Inheritance Tax Act (ErbStG) grant privileges for acquiring or transferring business assets. These shares in corporations and agricultural and forestry businesses may ensure these assets are transferred tax-exempt. The individual requirements for this are very complex and multi-layered.

M & A / CORPORATE LAW

We advise companies, shareholders, investors, managing directors, board members and supervisory board members comprehensively on all questions of national and international corporate law. This applies both to structuring advice (structuring, transformations, liability avoidance) and to disputes (shareholder disputes, court disputes, arbitration proceedings).

We are experienced in corporate transactions (including M&A, private equity, venture capital), tax structuring and succession planning.

Together with our specialists in the fields of capital market law, intellectual property law, tax law and antitrust law, we represent your interests in a goal-oriented, assertive and long-term manner.

Law to reduce bureaucracy: Draft bureaucracy relief act IV presented – the next paper tiger!

30. October 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

It is undisputed: Bureaucratic hurdles make life enormously more difficult for private individuals, but above all for companies. The fact that the German government is now addressing the issue of bureaucracy reduction – as announced in the coalition agreement – is therefore very welcome in principle.

BGH tightens duties to provide information in due diligence audits to the detriment of the seller

23. October 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

duties to provide information in due diligence audits that are subject to compensation

Claim for reinstatement: BGH (German Federal Court of Justice) on the scope of the company’s duty of loyalty following the termination of a shareholder’s contract

20. September 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

It is standard for shareholders to terminate the employment of another shareholder. There are many reasons for this: the breach of social fiduciary duties is often a reason for such a termination.

Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

Lawyer
Tax consultant
Specialist lawyer for commercial and company law
Specialist lawyer for tax law
cert. Consultant Criminal Tax Law (DAA)

Dirk Daniel

Lawyer
Specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law

Joachim Nellissen

Lawyer

Guido Imfeld

Lawyer in Germany and Belgium
Specialist lawyer for international business law
Specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law
Specialist in intellectual property law and competition law

Law to reduce bureaucracy: Draft bureaucracy relief act IV presented – the next paper tiger!

30. October 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

It is undisputed: Bureaucratic hurdles make life enormously more difficult for private individuals, but above all for companies. The fact that the German government is now addressing the issue of bureaucracy reduction – as announced in the coalition agreement – is therefore very welcome in principle.

BGH tightens duties to provide information in due diligence audits to the detriment of the seller

23. October 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

duties to provide information in due diligence audits that are subject to compensation

Claim for reinstatement: BGH (German Federal Court of Justice) on the scope of the company’s duty of loyalty following the termination of a shareholder’s contract

20. September 2023/by Christoph Schmitz-Schunken

It is standard for shareholders to terminate the employment of another shareholder. There are many reasons for this: the breach of social fiduciary duties is often a reason for such a termination.