Arne Zons

Mr Zons advises our clients in matters with a focus on commercial and corporate law, inheritance law and tax law. He advises our clients on drafting contracts and represents them in extrajudicial and judicial disputes with a commercial law focus.

Main areas of activity

As a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law, the focus of Mr Zons' work is on advising and representing medium-sized companies in commercial law matters. In this context, the focus is on the areas of general commercial law, primarily commercial and corporate law as well as contract drafting.

A further focus of his work is inheritance law advice and representation. As a specialist lawyer for inheritance law, Mr Zons will assist you in planning and implementing your individual estate planning, for example when drawing up a will or inheritance contract. In the context of anticipated succession, Mr Zons will advise you comprehensively in cooperation with our tax advisors on all structuring options, in particular on the valuation of assets and the drafting of the transfer agreement. In addition, Mr Zons will provide you with expert support in all matters relating to the administration of an estate, the division of an inheritance between co-heirs and the defence and enforcement of compulsory portion claims.

Mr Zons is experienced in negotiation and litigation; correspondence languages are German and English.

Data

• Interdisciplinary advice on business succession from a single source
• Legal and tax structuring of business succession
• Drafting of transfer agreements
• Planning and realisation of company sales
• Conception of family companies and family pools
• Conceptualisation of foundations, in particular corporate foundations, family foundations and dual foundations
• Conception of the transfer of the company into a responsible ownership structure.
• Drafting company wills, inheritance and marriage contracts, waivers of compulsory portions
• Execution of wills for the continuation of the business
• Mediation for shareholders and family members
• Company valuation, share valuation
• Arrangements for reducing inheritance tax on business assets
• Determination of the company value for inheritance and gift tax purposes
• Farm transfer
• Emergency planning for the entrepreneur