Family-owned Businesses

As a rule, each family-owned business has its own unique requirements. These are shaped by family members and their personal responsibility towards their employees, as well as the structure and history of the business. Our interdisciplinary approach – with experts in tax and business law, succession, asset planning and valuation working closely together – is especially advantageous in this field.

Many prominent family-owned businesses in Germany and abroad are long-standing clients of ours. We advise and support family-owned businesses of all sizes and legal forms.

Our expertise for family-owned businesses:

  • Comprehensive ongoing tax advice, including tax compliance and all one-off matters
  • Tax audits
  • General corporate-law advice
  • Structuring and reorganization of family-owned businesses
  • Sale and purchase of family-owned businesses, and joint ventures
  • Implementing supervisory-board, advisory-board and other corporate governance structures
  • Family governance for business families
  • Estate administration and advice for members of advisory and supervisory boards
  • Advice on litigation and out-of-court settlements, and representation in shareholder disputes and arbitration
  • Domestic and cross-border wealth planning and succession planning
  • Advice on establishing and managing family offices
  • Expatriation and immigration planning

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Our services for family-owned businesses

Ongoing advice for family-owned businesses
Business succession
Advice for business families
Foreign activities of family-owned businesses and family entrepreneurs
Family Offices
Sales, purchases and other transactions of family-owned businesses

News and insights

21.04.2027 | FGS Event
Verkauf von Familienunternehmen | Die Zeit nach dem Verkauf – Vermögensstrukturierung und persönliche Aspekte
 
17.03.2027 | FGS Event
Verkauf von Familienunternehmen | Vertragsverhandlungen und praktische Umsetzung
 
24.02.2027 | FGS Event
Verkauf von Familienunternehmen | Due Diligence aus Verkäufersicht – Vorbereitung und typische Stolpersteine
 
20.01.2027 | FGS Event
Verkauf von Familienunternehmen | Steuerlich optimierte Strukturierung, Exit Readiness und Möglichkeiten der Rückbeteiligung
 
16.12.2026 | External Event
MasterClasses 2026: Die Wandlung vom Familienunternehmen zur Familien-Beteiligungsgesellschaft - Rechtliche und steuerliche Aspekte aus Beratersicht
 
03.12.2026 | FGS Event
Verkauf von Familienunternehmen | Unternehmensbewertung – Kaufpreise, Multiples und Werttreiber
 
22.04.2026 | FGS Blog
M&A as a Strategic Lever for Growth and Succession for family businesses
 
Familienunternehmen
15.01.2026 | FGS Blog
Family businesses – Succession planning under company law
 
22.12.2025 | FGS Blog
Family businesses – Business succession from an inheritance law perspective
 
03.06.2025 | FGS Blog
Family businesses - The corporate law aspects (Part 2)
 
25.03.2025 | FGS Blog
Family-owned businesses: keeping the German economy afloat?
 
30.09.2024 | Latest news
Second edition of ‘Foundation Law after the Reform’ released
 
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