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Foundation and non-profit law

Interdisciplinary experience. Decades of expertise.

Non-profit organisations and foundations of all legal forms, as well as related persons such as shareholders, founders and board members, are sometimes subject to special legal and tax conditions.

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Decades of experience from multidisciplinary teams

PKF Fasselt advises a large number of non-profit limited liability companies, associations and foundations as well as non-profit family foundations and other organisations with private-benefit purposes. The scope of our advisory services begins with the further development and realisation of your initial ideas. It includes ongoing support in all legal and tax issues of daily life, reorganisations to adapt to changing conditions or even structured termination. Some of our experts in these areas have specialised in these fields for decades with different focuses. Our lawyers offer you interdisciplinary legal and tax advice, including business aspects in the area of non-profit and foundation law.

Our main services

Our consulting services

  • Legal, tax and business start-up advice for all non-profit legal forms, e.g. gGmbH, associations, etc.
  • Realisation of start-ups including the handling of all coordination with authorities such as registration and tax authorities
  • Ongoing advice on all legal and tax issues relating to non-profit organisations
  • Conception and implementation of all types of reorganisations
  • Advising board members on special issues such as remuneration and liability issues

Our consulting services

  • Legal, tax and business set-up advice for all types of foundations, including church foundations, municipal foundations and foundation substitutes such as foundation associations, foundation limited companies, etc.
  • Realisation of foundation set-ups including all coordination with authorities such as foundation and tax authorities
  • Ongoing advice on all foundation-specific legal and tax issues
  • Conception and implementation of all types of reorganisations to adapt to significant changes in circumstances, including dissolutions

Our consulting services

  • Foundation solutions for corporate succession
  • Foundation solutions for private asset succession
  • Ongoing advice on all legal and tax issues specific to private-benefit foundations
  • Assistance with specific issues for family foundations, e.g. inheritance tax

Our advisory services

  • Legal and tax advice on all specific issues relating to the current administration of historical foundations of all legal forms and on other issues of intertemporal foundation law