Noerr is renowned for advising research institutions, family offices, and HNWIs on funding, corporate governance, estate and asset structuring, and succession planning. The team also handles a broad range of transactional and contentious matters, including large-scale real estate deals, M&A transactions, and shareholder disputes. The practice is co-led by Gerald Reger, who supports large family-owned businesses and their shareholders on succession planning, structural changes, governance, and compliance, and Tobias Bürgers, who specialises in optimising governance for family businesses and foundations, managing succession, and resolving disputes. In March 2025, partner Tobias Hueck departed to join a family business consultancy.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Deep knowledge and competence with respect to complex tax issues.’
- 'Good private clients team in Munich and Berlin.' ‘Gerald Reger’s lawyers are very competent, goal and solution-oriented. All areas of the relevant legal field are examined comprehensively and in detail. As a client, you feel comfortable and well advised.’ ‘Very interlinked across all areas relevant for family businesses - real full service for entrepreneurial families, their businesses, and family offices.’ ‘Frank Schuck is a leading expert for wills of UHNWI and foundations - very accurate, precise and reliable, with outstanding expertise.’ ‘Michael Tommaso is a leading expert in succession planning, outstanding in all aspects regarding exit tax.’
Key clients
Allianz Foundation
Dehner-Group
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche StiftungsTrust GmbH
Dieter Schwarz Stiftung gGmbH
Fresenius/Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
Gegenbauer
Hardtke Stiftung
Hermes Johannes Burges Stiftung
Johannes Burges Familienstiftung
Kaufland Stiftung & Co. KG
Krones
Work highlights
Advised a €9bn estate in connection to family, inheritance, foundation and tax law situations, with several corporate and family foundations established upon death.
Advised the owner family of Grob Aircraft SE on the sale of the family business to Helsing and subsequent allocation of the family holding company and its assets.
Advised the Dieter Schwarz Group, including Dieter Schwarz Stiftung, Kaufland Stiftung, Lidl Stiftung, and PreZero Stiftung, on all issues relating to foundation, company, and group law.
Practice head
Gerald Reger; Tobias Bürgers
Other key lawyers
Sebastian Leidel; Michael Tommaso; Sebastian Seier; Frank Schuck; Jan-Philipp Meier; Michael Braun; Paul Gurr; Daniel Roth