Andreas Richter

Andreas is considered a pioneer of family office advisory work in Germany.

Almost twentyfive years ago, Andreas was the first lawyer at POELLATH to specialize exclusively in tax, legal and strategic advice to large private clients. Since then, together with his partners and colleagues, he led POELLATH to the top of the market in the fields of succession, private clients and foundations.

Over the years, he advised on several hundred asset and corporate successions, managed over a hundred foundation projects and assisted several dozen single family offices with structuring. In the last decade, entrepreneurs have increasingly asked him to advise and mediate in some of the most significant foundation and shareholder disputes.

In addition to his classical legal practice, Andreas holds a large number of positions on supervisory and advisory boards of family businesses and family offices, acts as executor for entrepreneurial assets and serves on the board of directors and trustees of charitable foundations. At Humboldt University, he teaches international and corporate tax law.

In addition to his profession, Andreas is passionate about rowing and tennis.

Joined POELLATH in 2001

Interim director of the Institute for Foundation Law at Bucerius Law School (2006-2007) and Member of the Advisory Board since

(Founding) Managing director of the Berliner Steuergespräche e.V. (www.berlinersteuergespraeche.de)

Doctorate on German and US foundation law under Prof. Reinhard Zimmermann (Max Planck Institute Hamburg; 2000)

Associate at a major international law firm in New York (1996-1997)

Master studies at Yale Law School (LL.M. 1996)

Studied law in Konstanz and Hamburg

Studied English law at Trinity College, Cambridge (UK; B.A. Hons 1993)

Fellow at the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)

Councilor of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and Chair of the Global Membership Committee

(Founding) Chairman of the Association of German Family Foundations

(Founding) Chairman of the Executive Board of the postgraduate course “Business Succession Inheritance Law Asset Management” (www.jurgrad.de)