Heussen Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

About Us

Every case is different. It is therefore important to us to first understand our clients' needs and objectives. On the basis of that we then jointly develop strategies and solutions and implement them methodically. As well as working closely together with HEUSSEN B.V. in Amsterdam we cooperate with partners both in Germany and abroad. HEUSSEN takes an international, multi-disciplinary approach and works closely together with tax advisers, auditors and corporate finance consultants. It is only with this understanding of consulting that we do justice to our clients' expectations.

Our main practice areas are corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, banking and capital market, construction and land law, employment law, public law, succession, wealth and foundation law,  insolvency and energy law.

Our Practice Groups

• Labour Law
• Corporate
• Dispute Resolution
• Real estate and construction law
• Insolvency Law
• IT, IP and media law
• Public commercial law
• taxes
• Company succession / asset succession / foundations
• Distribution, competition and antitrust law

Competence Teams

• Advice for consultants
• Data protection
• Health care
• Renewable energies law

Country Desks

HEUSSEN is represented internationally in three countries with 8 locations. We have a special connection to the countries of our country desks - we not only speak the language, but are also very familiar with the country, its people, culture and economy. If you are active in one of these countries or regions or would like to operate from there in the Netherlands, Germany or Italy, you will find the right partner for you in our country desks.

• China Desk
• Dutch Desk
• Spanish and Latin-American Desk
• French Desk
• Italian Desk
• Sweden Desk
• Turkish Desk
• African Desk

Notaries*

What characterises us?

The notaries, five of whom are based in Frankfurt am Main and one in the Berlin office, cover the entire spectrum of notarial activities, specialising in real estate, corporate and inheritance law.

The notaries

• have many years of experience in complex notarisations, the supervision of cross-border notarial transactions and the handling of contracts with foreign connections.
• are experienced abroad and have extensive language skills in English, French, Italian and Swedish, for example.
• have nationwide electronic access to commercial registers and land registers and are familiar with foreign registers, such as the British, French, Italian, Luxembourg, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss and Hong Kong commercial registers.
• are supported by an experienced team of employees in the preparation, notarisation and execution of contracts.

Your main areas of expertise

Real estate law

Notarisation of real estate transactions (portfolios of residential and/or commercial properties), wind farms, division of land in accordance with the German Condominium Act, property development transactions, creation and transfer of property-like rights such as heritable building rights, easements for wind turbines, rights of way or pipeline rights or residential rights.

Company law

Company formations of all forms including stock corporations, foundations and associations, corporate transformations, notarisation of resolutions, assignment of shares, measures in accordance with the German Transformation Act (mergers, including cross-border mergers, change of legal form), approval resolutions for company agreements, amendments to articles of association, appointment and dismissal of managing directors, board members and authorised signatories, liquidations and the entire execution under register law.

Inheritance law

Wills, inheritance contracts, anticipated succession, corporate succession, implementation of testamentary dispositions such as fulfilment of legacies or settlement of a community of heirs.

Contact details of the data protection officer

If you have any questions, comments or wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, please feel free to contact our notaries' data protection officers at any time: Dr Stefan Bauer, Stephan Correll, Dr Thomas Miller, Norbert Pahl, Prof. Wolfgang Trautner, and Karl Woschnagg via the email address: [email protected]

* In Germany, notaries exercise a public office. Notaries therefore exercise their activities on their own responsibility outside the area of activity of HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.