INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Katharina Gollan

Katharina Gollan

High Net Worth 2026

About

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High Net Worth

Practice Areas

Dr Katharina Gollan is an associated partner in POELLATH’s Private Clients practice in Berlin. Her clients include major foundations and non-profit organisations in Germany and abroad. She advises on the full spectrum of foundation and non-profit matters, ranging from the establishment of foundations and the structuring of charitable projects to asset management and disputes involving governing bodies. She is recognised as a leading practitioner in this field. A further focus of her practice is succession planning. As a member of the German Bar Association’s Legislative Committee on Inheritance Law, she serves as rapporteur on the reform of German foundation law.

Career

Joined POELLATH in 2007

Member of the Inheritance Law Committee of the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein) (anwaltverein.de)

Academic assistant of the Institute for Foundation Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (Ph.D.; awarded the W. Rainer Walz prize of Bucerius Law School 2009)

Admitted to the bar in 2005; specialist lawyer for tax law since 2012; specialist lawyer for inheritance law since 2021

Studied law in Erlangen, Rennes (France), Munich and Muenster (LL.M. 2009)

Ranked Individuals at POELLATH (8)

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