Lawyers for corporate succession

In addition to the objective of preserving the company for future generations, corporate succession focuses on maintaining the long-term independence of a business and ensuring it remains in safe hands. Our lawyers for corporate succession have been successfully advising business owners on corporate succession planning and implementation for decades. 

Our specialist lawyers start with the existing set-up. We examine the articles of association and ownership structure, contract details, management arrangements and financial basis. The aim here is to optimise structures, possibly through a change of legal form or a restructuring of the company under corporate law.

If there is no direct successor for the business, the CMS lawyers for corporate succession will develop alternative succession models such as a sale to management (MBO, MBI), bringing in outside investors or transferring the company to a family foundation. Our corporate law advice is always carefully aligned with the tax, family and inheritance law issues that business owners and successors face. 

In complex cross-border cases, our German lawyers for corporate succession call in experts from the CMS Private Clients Specialty Group within the international CMS organisation. 

The contact details of our corporate succession lawyers are listed below. Please feel free to get in touch at any time.

More information on our services around corporate succession can be found here.