Your Inheritance Lawyer in Vienna: Expertise & Legal Certainty
Are you looking for an experienced inheritance lawyer to secure your assets for future generations or to protect your rights in probate proceedings? Ranked #1 in the Trend Lawyer Ranking 2026 (Private Clients) and as a Tier 1 Expert in Chambers HNW, Dr. Nikolaus Arnold offers comprehensive legal guidance. We combine decades of experience in succession planning and representation in probate proceedings with profound scientific depth. Establish legal certainty for your succession planning now.
Our Core Competencies in Inheritance Law & Wealth Succession:
- Legal Counsel on Inheritance Law: Individual structuring of succession mortis causa, taking complex family dynamics into account.
- Wills & Estate Planning: Legally secure drafting of wills, legacies, and their registration in the Central Register of Wills.
- Business Succession: Strategic development of succession rules, adjustment of articles of association (GmbH, FlexCo), and syndicate agreements.
- Compulsory Portion Law: Assertion as well as judicial enforcement or defense against compulsory portion claims.
- Probate Proceedings: Professional representation before the court and court commissioner (notary) to safeguard your inheritance rights.
- Private Foundations: Designing foundation solutions for long-term wealth preservation (see also www.privatstiftung.info and www.stiftungsprotektor.com).
- Waiver of Inheritance & Compulsory Portion: Drafting notarial agreements for the anticipation of succession and prevention of future disputes.
Your Expert for Inheritance Law, Succession Planning, and Probate
Dr. Nikolaus Arnold, Attorney at Law
Partner at ARNOLD Attorneys at Law
Admitted to the bar since 1999
Memberships and Functions:
- Top Ranking 2026: #1 in the Trend Ranking (Private Clients) & Tier 1 Chambers HNW Austria.
- Editor & Author of the standard work PSG Commentary (Private Foundation Act) and the Handbook of the Private Foundation.
- Decades of Experience: Attorney since 1999 specializing in the intersection of inheritance law, foundation law, corporate law, and tax law.
- Functions: Supervisory board member and foundation board member of renowned companies;
- Co-editor of the legal journal GesRZ (“The Shareholder”).
- Member of the editorial advisory board of “Aufsichtsrat aktuell”.
- Corresponding member of the expert senate for tax law of the Chamber of Public Accountants.
