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

All contacts and experts

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

16.12.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Die internationale Unternehmerfamilie: Rechts- und Steuerfragen bei international mobilen Gesellschaftern
 
12.11.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Brennpunkte aus der Beratung von Family Offices - Die Unternehmensnachfolge ohne Nachfolger (Teil 20)
 
10.10.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Brennpunkte aus der Beratung von Family Offices - Versorgung des Ehegatten (Teil 19)
 
12.09.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Familienholding 2024 – Errichtung, Besteuerung, Vererbung (Teil 2)
 
10.09.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Brennpunkte aus der Beratung von Family Offices - Die Steuerstraftat: Prävention, Verteidigung und Verurteilung (Teil 18)
 
05.09.2024 | External Event
Webinar: Familienholding 2024 – Errichtung, Besteuerung, Vererbung (Teil 1)
 
21.12.2023 | FGS Blog
Anwendung des 90%-Einstiegstests bei Handelsunternehmen
 
20.11.2023 | Latest news
Continuing to grow: Flick Gocke Schaumburg announces numerous new partners
 
09.10.2023 | Latest news
Flick Gocke Schaumburg maintains position among the top 10 law firms in terms of revenue
 
16.06.2023 | Latest news
Best Lawyers: Flick Gocke Schaumburg again named Law Firm of the Year for Tax Law and Succession Planning & Foundations
 
17.10.2022 | Deals done
Flick Gocke Schaumburg advises Wirtgen Invest on the purchase of A-Rosa on Sylt
 
06.05.2022 | Latest news
Flick Gocke Schaumburg named Law Firm of the Year for corporate tax