Comprehensive advice
We have many years of experience and training in relevant issues relating to the transfer of real estate, companies and businesses and the structuring of family assets. Talk to us and create legal certainty for (also future) generations.
Our field of activity includes in particular
- Advice in connection with inheritance law and succession upon death
- Drafting of wills, legacies and other testamentary dispositions up to waiver of inheritance and compulsory portion
- Structuring under company law (in particular also takeover and pre-acquisition rights, transfer restrictions, etc.) for different areas of application (transfer of business, legal succession by reason of death, safeguarding the family, ensuring the avoidance of stalemate situations)
- Strategic development and elaboration of succession arrangements within the company and the family
- Drafting of partnership agreements, foundation declarations, syndicate agreements and other agreements
- Representation in probate proceedings vis-à-vis the court and court commissioner
- Assertion of claims to a compulsory portion
- Judicial enforcement of claims under inheritance law as well as claims to a compulsory portion
- Tenancy law issues relating to the transfer of rights by reason of death
- Design of foundation solutions (private foundation) for legal succession upon death
Your contact person
Dr Nikolaus Arnold, Attorney at Law
Partner of ARNOLD Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Lawyer since 1999
Memberships and functions:
- Member of the supervisory board and board of trustees of renowned companies and private foundations
- Co-editor of GesRZ (“Der Gesellschafter”)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Aufsichtsrat aktuell
- Corresponding member of the Expert Committee for Tax Law of the Austrian Chamber of Chartered Accountants and Tax Consultants
- Author and editor of renowned commentaries and publications in the areas of corporate law, tax law and foundation law.
