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Provided by Frank-Grischa Feitsch
Commercial and corporate law
Corporate Corporate & Asset Succession / Foundations
Corporate structuring
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tax
Dr. Feitsch's regular clients include family, digital and real estate entrepreneurs, owners of old family estates, wealthy private individuals, family foundations and charitable foundations.
Certified specialist lawyer for Inheritance Law
Certified specialist lawyer for Tax Law
Certified specialist lawyer for Commercial and Corporate
Law Master of Comparative Law (Mannheim/Adelaide)
Certified Corporate Succession Consultant (zentUma)
Certified Executor (AGT)
Dr. Frank-Grischa Feitsch specialises in consulting and representative services bridging the fields of inheritance, corporate, foundation and tax law.
His work focuses on interdisciplinary succession planning, the conception of testamentary dispositions and the implementation of measures of anticipated succession based on the respective planning and the conception of tailor-made company and gift agreements aligned to the respective
planning. Furthermore, Dr. Feitsch advises and represents clients in inheritance and shareholder disputes both in and out of court, entrepreneurs in their ongoing corporate law matters, founders in the establishment of foundations and charitable as well as private foundations.
Frequent subjects of his mandates are the establishment of commercial and asset managing family companies, the particularities of inheritance contracts and wills based on former family trusts (Fideikommiss) as well as the transfer of companies into so-called responsible ownership (Verantwortungseigentum).
HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin / Munich (since April 2015) , Partner
Managing Partner at Feitsch und Feitsch Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin (June 2005 to March 2015): Interdisciplinary structuring advice and litigation in inheritance law, company law, foundation law and tax law (focus on corporate and asset succession)
Independent lawyer, Berlin (January 2003 to May 2005): Focus on company law, in particular industrial relocation projects, Cooperation with specialised management consultancy
Research assistant (September 1998 to August 1999)
Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff, (Institute for German and European Business and Social Law, Heidelberg)
and
Dr. Bernd Erle, (Member of the Executive Board of KPMG Deutsche Treuhand Gesellschaft AG, Frankfurt)
Member of the Executive Board of a non-profit foundation based in Rhineland-Palatinate
Member of the Board of Trustees of a non-profit foundation based in Berlin
Member of the Specialist Lawyers' Committee for Inheritance Law of the Berlin Bar Association
Chairman of the Legal Commission of the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW), Berlin
Chairman of the Association Court of the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW), Berlin
Dr. Feitsch is also involved in numerous other professional associations and non-profit organisations, the latter particularly in the field of fine and performing arts.
Feitsch: Chapter ‘The concept of eternity and family businesses’ (family foundations, foundation & Co. KG, double foundations, companies with restricted assets (responsible ownership), in the Family Business Form Book (Nomos), 2025.
Feitsch/Linder: Foundation Law, in: Heussen/Hamm (eds.), Beck's Lawyer's Handbook, 12th edition 2022.
Feitsch/Linder: The domestic family foundation with legal capacity as successor to company shares: structural considerations in legal practice (Part 2), ZStV 2018, p. 67 ff.
Feitsch/Linder: Domestic family foundations with legal capacity as successors to company shares: structural considerations in legal practice (Part 1), ZStV 2018, p. 29 ff.
Feitsch/Linder: Foundation Law, in: Heussen/Hamm (eds.), Beck's Lawyer's Handbook, 11th edition 2016.
Feitsch/George: The hybrid foundation – stability through flexibility, Foundation & Sponsoring 2015, p. 32 ff.
Feitsch: Event-driven company and share valuations, Diss. Heidelberg, 2004.
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Frank-Grischa Feitsch is an experienced inheritance and tax lawyer who works across Heussen's Berlin and Munich offices. He advises on foundations, corporate structuring and wealth transfer strategies.