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Provided by Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack

High Net Worth

Practice Areas

Private client, Private investment & family owned businesses

Career

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2008 – 2021 Lawyer, Taylor Wessing

2005 – 2007 Legal clerkship, Düsseldorf

Professional Memberships

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Familienrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein

International Association of Family Lawyers

Publications

Das neue Namensrecht – mehr Flexibilität, aber kein großer Wurf, in: privat banking magazin, 04/25, together with Johanna Beermann

Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2024 Germany Family Law, in: Legal 500 Family Law, 10/2024, together with Johanna Beermann

Vor- und Nacherbschaft vs. Vermächtnis auf den Überrest in der Beratungspraxis, in: Recht der Familienunternehmen, 11/2023, together with Saskia Ballon

Wie sich die Betreuungsreform auf Unternehmer und Vermögende auswirkt, in: private banking magazin, 03/2023, together with Johanna Beermann

Vorsorgevollmacht und Ehegattenvertretung – Praxisrelevante Neuerungen ab 01.01.2023, in: RFamU 2022, 559, together with Johanna Beermann

Wo der Bundesfinanzhof den Gestaltungsspielraum erweitert hat, in: private banking magazin, 07/2022, together with Johanna Beermann

Tücken der Vor- und Nacherbschaft in Unternehmerfamilien, in: private banking magazin, 03/2022, together with Saskia Ballon

Diese Besonderheiten gelten bei international geprägten Ehen, in: private banking magazin, 08/2021, together with Johanna Beermann

Scheidung: Mit diesen Tipps und Verträgen wird die Trennung nicht zum Firmenkiller, in: handwerk magazin, 03/2020

Bezos braucht jetzt besonderes Verhandlungsgeschick, Interview in WiWo, January 2019

Gestaltung von Unternehmereheverträgen, in: Wiese (Hrsg.), Unternehmensnachfolge - Steuerliche und rechtliche Gestaltung, 2020

Personal

Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack is a specialist lawyer for family law. Her practice focuses on providing clients with consensual and out-of-court solutions. This includes negotiating and drafting prenuptial agreements with a special focus on agreements of international relevance and separation agreements, as well as agreements covering the legal consequences of divorce. ​

A further focus of Cornelia’s practice is on advising high-net-worth individuals on all matters relating to corporate and asset succession - both in the area of anticipated succession through gifts inter vivos and by drawing up preventive wills prior to the death of the testator. If necessary, she also represents her clients’ interests in court. ​

In addition, Cornelia gives specialist lectures on a regular basis

Languages Spoken

German, English

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Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth - Germany

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Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack advises on prenuptial and separation agreements, as well as guiding clients through divorces.

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