Our succession law advice combines forward-looking planning with clear and measured conflict management — aimed at safeguarding succession, structuring assets and maintaining family balance. In doing so, we develop legally secure structures and handle disputes with discretion, sound judgement and experience.
A clearly drafted will or a carefully structured inheritance contract ensures that your final wishes are implemented with legal effect and that conflicts are avoided. We prepare wills, joint testamentary dispositions and inheritance contracts tailored precisely to your family and financial circumstances.
In doing so, we also take into account corporate law arrangements — for example arising from prenuptial agreements or shareholders’ agreements — and, where requested, assume the role of executor. In this way, we ensure that your dispositions are implemented as intended and that the estate is administered in an orderly and conflict-free manner.
Personal advance planning is an essential element of responsible succession planning. We assist you in preparing tailored powers of attorney that safeguard both private and business interests.
Particularly where business interests or substantial assets are involved, we establish legally secure structures that ensure representation and capacity to act even in unforeseen circumstances — always with careful attention to the interfaces between family law and corporate law.
Where differences arise between heirs, forced heirs or legatees following a death, we represent your interests decisively and with the necessary measure of judgement — both out of court and in court.
We enforce or defend compulsory portion, inheritance and legacy claims, assist with the partition of estates and represent you in proceedings relating to the interpretation or challenge of wills. Our experience in conflict management, combined with the close interaction between family law and corporate law, ensures robust strategies — even in complex estate constellations.Forward-looking planning of personal assets and business succession safeguards generational transitions and the continuity of family values. Together with you, we develop individual, legally robust structures — ranging from gifts and lifetime transfers to corporate succession solutions.
By combining our expertise in corporate and family law, we establish clear arrangements for compulsory portion rights, settlements and shareholders’ agreements — ensuring an orderly succession and the preservation of family balance.
Succession law matters often affect additional areas of expertise — ranging from tax and real estate law to business management and valuation issues. We therefore work closely with specialised tax advisers, auditors and valuation experts, either from our own network or together with our clients’ trusted advisers.
Wherever possible, we pursue out-of-court dispute resolution and, where appropriate, involve experienced mediators in order to achieve sustainable agreements in sensitive situations.
This interdisciplinary and coordinated cooperation ensures that legal, financial and personal aspects are taken into account at an early stage — resulting in tailored, legally secure solutions aligned with the wishes of the testator and the interests of all parties involved.
