GERMANY Law and Practice Contributed by: Tanja Schienke-Ohletz, Flick Gocke Schaumburg
Flick Gocke Schaumburg has seven offices in Ger - many – in Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. With more than 50 years’ experience in the field, the firm combines out - standing expertise in German and international tax law with specialist know-how in other relevant areas of business law. Flick Gocke Schaumburg advises on national and international mergers and acquisitions, disposals, venture capital and private equity trans - actions, and complex restructurings; it also provides
comprehensive advice to high net worth individuals, family-owned businesses, foundations and non-prof - it organisations on all tax and legal issues related to wealth management and succession. Within the area of assets and inheritance, investing in art or transfer - ring art and art collections to the next generation also plays an important role in its advisory services. FGS has extensive experience in structuring art. Typical clients are artists and their estates, foundations and art collectors.
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Tanja Schienke-Ohletz is a lawyer, tax adviser and partner at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Frankfurt am Main. She advises on all matters relating to inheritance law and inheritance tax law, as well as national and
international succession planning. The establishment and advising of non-profit organisations and family foundations in Germany and abroad is one of her specialisations. She also advises beneficiaries of trust structures from a German perspective. In connection with succession planning, she also specialises in advising on art estates and art foundations, as well as the tax optimisation of art collections.
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