Private Wealth Law

Private wealth. Personal solutions.

Wealth and succession planning is about more than assets. With decades of experience and a deep understanding of family dynamics, DSC advises entrepreneurs, families, private clients and foundations on structuring, preserving and transferring wealth across generations. The team combines outstanding legal expertise with a highly personal and interdisciplinary approach, developing solutions tailored to each client’s individual circumstances and long-term objectives.

Thinking across generations and borders.

DSC advises on complex succession and estate planning, including the transfer of businesses and other assets, private and charitable foundations, family governance and philanthropy. The team is equally experienced in cross-border matters and contentious situations, providing strategic advice where family, corporate and financial interests intersect.

Key areas of expertise include:

• Estate and succession planning, including intergenerational wealth transfer
• Succession planning for entrepreneurs and family businesses
• Family governance, including syndicate agreements and family constitutions
• Formation, management and restructuring of private and charitable foundations
• Foundation governance, liability and beneficiary rights
• Philanthropy and charitable structures
• Wills and other testamentary dispositions
• Austrian and international inheritance law
• Probate and foundation disputes
• Administration and execution of complex estates