Competence
Private Clients
SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises high net worth individuals, family businesses and entrepreneurial families in Germany and abroad on matters of succession planning, corporate and tax law, foundation and non-profit law, asset management and structuring, as well as family and inheritance law, some of them for several generations. Clients also include private banks, family offices, asset managers and tax advisors.
Range of services
- Inheritance law and anticipated succession
- Inheritance and gift tax law
- Family law: prenuptial agreements, divorces, gain and maintenance, adoptions
- Tax law advice in connection with the management of larger estates
- Change of residence abroad
- Non-profit law
- Art and cultural property law matters
- Organization and selection procedures for custodian banks and asset managers
- Corporate law and related tax law advice for family businesses and their shareholders
- Corporate law and inheritance law disputes
- Assumption of and advice in connection with execution of wills
Client mandates (selection)
- Heinz Hermann Thiele Familienstiftung
- Fontana Stiftung
- Freudenberg Stiftung
- as well as numerous high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, family offices, entrepreneurial families, and foundations
Thinktank
Planned Revision of the Taxation of Foreign Family Foundations
BMF draft dated November 18, 2025: Notice on the planned revision of Section 15 AStG