GERMANY Law and Practice Contributed by: Tanja Schienke-Ohletz, Flick Gocke Schaumburg
Flick Gocke Schaumburg (FGS) has seven offices in Germany – in Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, Ham- burg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. With more than 50 years’ experience in the field, the firm combines outstanding expertise in German and in- ternational tax law with specialist know-how in other relevant areas of business law. FGS advises on na- tional 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 the firm’s advisory services. FGS has extensive experience in structuring art.
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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 on 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.
Flick Gocke Schaumburg Fritz-Schäffer-Straße 1 53113 Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Tel: +49 228 9594 0 Email: bonn@fgs.de Web: www.fgs.de
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