Dr. Andreas Richter Email & Phone Number

Some of Germany's leading family offices, family businesses and foundations as well as their peers abroad form the client basis for Andreas' work as a legal and tax advisor. Andreas is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's pre-eminent private client lawyers. The quality of Andreas' cross border work was recognized when he was elected as Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He has outstanding experience in business and wealth succession, estate planning, legal and tax structuring of private wealth and family offices, corporate governance for family-owned businesses, expatriation taxation, charities, as well as trust and foundation law. Clients in common law jurisdictions regularly instruct Andreas because of his background in English law (B.A. Hons. Trinity College, Cambridge) and US law (LL.M. Yale Law School).Andreas is the managing director of the Berlin Tax Policy Forum which is a leading country wide forum for the debate on tax policiy. He chairs the executive board of the postgraduate programme ‘Business Succession, Inheritance Law & Asset Management’ at the University of Muenster/Westphalia. He serves as a member on boards of family offices, foundations and family businesses and acts as executor. Andreas is the author and editor of numerous publications, commentaries and compendiums, in particular on family offices, foundation law, business succession and all tax-related matters.

Listed skills include Estate Planning, Trusts, High Net Worth Individuals, Wills, and 13 others.