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Dr Axel Godron
Work Department
Private Client, Corporate
Position
Partner
Axel Godron heads up the Practice Group Private Client and specialises in company succession and private asset succession, in advising shareholders of family businesses, and in foundation law. His expertise in the field of succession consultation extends to international succession planning and the settlement of international estates (with a focus on the USA, the UK, and southern Europe).
His clients include numerous German entrepreneurial families, their foundations and family offices, as well as internationally active artists and athletes. Axel has been providing advice to a number of entrepreneurial families on a permanent basis in the sense of a “trusted advisor”. In this capacity, he has assumed the activities of a member of the advisory board or of an executor.
Career
- Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
- 2005 – 2008 Associate, Taylor Wessing
- 2003 – 2004 Associate, another international law firm
- 2001 – 2002 Legal clerkship, Munich, Würzburg and Chicago
Languages
German, English
Education
- 2005 Doctoral degree, Universität Köln
- 2003 Established as a lawyer, Düsseldorf, from 2005 in Munich
- 2003 Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
- 2002 Second state examination, Munich
- 2000 First state examination, Munich
- 1994 Diploma, business administration, University Würzburg
Lawyer Rankings
Germany > Private clients and non-profits
Taylor Wessing‘s private clients team comprehensively advises wealthy private individuals, family offices and family businesses on inheritance, family, foundation and tax law matters pertaining to the structuring of German and foreign assets as well as corporate succession and routinely cooperates with the corporate law team. This range of topics is also covered by Axel Godron, who jointly heads the practice with Martin Kraus; Kraus is well versed in traditional company succession matters as well as transaction-related topics. Jens Escher is a key contact for related tax matters, including the structuring of tax-optimised foundations. Family law matters are a core strength of Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack; this expertise is utilised in drafting marriage contracts, wills, separations, divorces as well as in connection with inheritance law issues. In December 2023, Luise Hauschild (focus on cross-border matters) joined the team as a salary partner from Loschelder.
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