Tanja Schienke
Tanja Schienke
Attorney / Tax Advisor / Partner | Flick Gocke Schaumburg
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Germany
Short Biography
After studying law in Cologne, Tanja worked for two years in a French-German law firm in Paris and then at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in the private clients department, where she also passed the tax advisor exam. She specialises in advising international clients in the areas of succession planning, relocation, international estate planning and advising on trusts and foundations.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Mon Amie Maxie in Frankfurt
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Build up a network.
What was your first job?
Receptionist in a law firm
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Nice girls don't get the corner office.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Globility, AI for Private clients
Ruth Junius-Morawe
Ruth Junius-Morawe
Associate | Flick Gocke Schaumburg
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family and Matrimonial
Family Governance and Business
Office Location
Germany
Short Biography
Ruth studied law in Heidelberg and Geneva and has written a doctoral thesis about German family foundations. She completed her legal traineeship at the higher regional court in Frankfurt, while working as a research assistance at Hegeler Mueller. Since 2018 Ruth practices as a Private Client Lawyer in the Team of Dr. Christian von Oertzen at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Frankfurt. After a secondment at Charles Russell Speechlys in London in 2023, Ruth is now working in Flick Gocke Schaumburg´s Berlin office.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Borchert (Berlin), Papa Enj (Frankfurt), Palomar (London)
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Be yourself and have fun with what you do
What was your first job?
Student employee in an IT company in Heidelberg
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Martin Suter, Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
I am looking forward to clients of my generation who are now becoming increasingly active in planning. I think the politically turbulent times will also bring about more planning activity.
Philipp Windeknecht
Philipp Windeknecht
Partner | Flick Gocke Schaumburg
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Probate
Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory
Office Location
Germany
Short Biography
Philipp is a partner at Flick Gocke Schaumburg working in the private clients department in Frankfurt. As a lawyer and certified tax advisor with ten years of experience, his main practice areas include estate planning (civil law and tax law), probate and relocation to as well as from Germany. He also advises national and international clients on pre- and post-nuptial agreements, charitable planning, establishing of foundations and art (tax) law. He publishes articles on national and international estate planning on a regular basis and he also gives lectures about these issues. He is a member of the International Bar Association and the International Fiscal Association.
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Christian von Oertzen
Christian von Oertzen
Partner | Flick Gocke Schaumburg
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Art and Cultural Property
Estates: Planning
Trusts & Trusteeship
Office Location
Germany
Short Biography
Christian von Oertzen is a lawyer, certified tax lawyer and partner at the Frankfurt office of Flick Gocke Schaumburg. He has been advising national and international medium-sized entrepreneurial families, high net worth individuals and family offices in the area of succession / wealth / foundations for 30 years and heads the Private Clients and Family-owned Businesses department at Flick Gocke Schaumburg. Christian is a member of various internationally respected professional associations (including member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Laws, San Francisco and International Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Washington D.C.) and co-editor of a commentary on inheritance tax law.
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Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter
Partner | POELLATH
JURISDICTION
Germany
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Office
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Germany
Short Biography
Dr. Andreas Richter, LL.M., is a partner and former member of the management board at POELLATH. Some of Germany's leading family offices, family businesses and foundations as well as their peers abroad are the client basis for his work as a legal and tax adviser. Andreas is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's preeminent private client lawyers. The quality of his cross-border work was recog-nised when he was elected as academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.
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