Expertise and Practice

Succession Planning

Ms. Svena  is an expert in the establishment of family companies and family foundations during one's lifetime or posthumously, the creation of wills and inheritance contracts, gifts, powers of attorney, renunciations of compulsory shares, and advice on prenuptial agreements.

Inheritance Law

Ms. Svena guides you competently through the complex matters of inheritance law and advises you on all issues before and after the occurrence of an inheritance. This includes, in particular, compulsory share rights, the settlement of inheritance communities, conflicts surrounding inheritance, advice and handling of international inheritance cases, the area of executorship, and the contestation of wills.

With many years of experience as a banking lawyer, she has a pronounced understanding of asset structures, economic interrelationships, and tax law influences. This, combined with her collaboration with tax advisors at Hoxha Lawfirm, enables her to excellently manage complex arrangements and conflicts involving real estate assets, securities portfolios, corporate investments, and more.

Expertise and Practice

Mrs Bettina Muller is an attorney at Hoxha Law firm. As a member of our legal team, she offers comprehensive and dedicated advice and representation in all matters of German and international family law . As an attorney specializing in family law, Mrs Bettina combines in-depth legal knowledge with empathy and assertiveness in representing her clients' interests. With her academic background and practical experience, she is able to help her clients find balanced legal solutions in difficult family law situations. 

Expertise and Practice

Attorney Alley practices corporate law and copyright law

As a certified specialist for commercial and corporate law, he advises company founders and start-ups as well as investors on the initiation and implementation of financing measures and on the execution of M&A transactions in Germany. In this context, a particular focus is on the structuring of employee participation models as well as on advising on liability risks of managing directors.

Attorney Alley advises and represents medium-sized companies and their shareholders in the drafting of articles of association, in reorganization processes and M&A transactions, as well as in extrajudicial and judicial shareholder disputes in Germany.

As a certified specialist for copyright and media law, his clients include research institutions, software companies as well as companies in the creative industry, artists, authors, musicians and actors. Here, the main focus of his work is on advising and representing clients in all matters relating to software development and use, as well as artists' contracts and the enforcement of rights to works of visual art and film works.

In doing so, Attorney Alley is often active in cross-border and international contexts, in which he benefits from his fluent knowledge of the English language.

He is a member of the Hamburg Bar Association, the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright and the Licensing Executives Society, German National Group.

Expertise and Practice

Attorney-at-law Dr. Jörg Kaufa practices corporate and real estate law 

In the field of corporate law, Dr. Kaufa advises entrepreneurs and companies on all corporate issues. He has particular expertise in advising on the sale of companies (M&A) and private equity transactions as well as in distribution law. He is committed to accompanying the developments surrounding the digitalization of corporate law.

In real estate law, Dr. Kaufmann assists with real estate transactions and financing and deals with commercial tenancy law. In successfully advising his clients, he particularly applies his in-depth understanding of the real estate industry. Furthermore, he can draw on his experience from overseeing numerous real estate deals.

Dr. Kaufmann advises his clients in both English and Spanish. For this reason, he is often the one in charge when it comes to cross-border matters or the drafting and negotiation of contracts in English.

Expertise and Practice

As a partner and Certified Specialist for Intellectual Property Law, Dr. Julius is responsible for the area of intellectual property law. He advises and represents clients in particular on trademark law, copyright law, competition law, and antitrust law. His clients are primarily mid-sized companies but he also assists founders of new businesses with trademark registrations, the drafting of general terms and conditions of business, distribution agreements, etc. In addition to his work as an attorney, he passes on his experience to the next generation as a lecturer, for example, at the Media Law Clinic at the University of Hamburg. 

Expertise and Practice

Katrina Hoffa is dually qualified tax consultant and certified specialist lawyer for tax law. . One of her key areas of expertise is succession consulting and inheritance tax optimization for both private assets and business succession and taxation of foundations. In addition, she provides legal and tax advice on both real estate and corporate transactions. She further represents clients vis-à-vis the tax authorities, including advice and declaration of inheritance tax and gift tax on the one hand, and appeals against tax assessments and actions before the tax court on the other hand. 

Expertise and Practice

Kolper-Devee heads our department of family and inheritance . Her clients include entrepreneurs, managers and wealthy individuals. As a specialist lawyer for family law with expertise in inheritance law, her competency includes legal representation in divorce proceedings or inheritance disputes as well as the drafting of marriage contracts or wills and other issues of family and inheritance law, such as adoption or execution of wills. 

Expertise and Practice

David Knauf is a certified specialist for tax law and for criminal law. This dual qualification alone shows the focus of his work: defence and advice in criminal tax law and tax-related commercial criminal law.

David Knauf has been defending entrepreneurs, managing directors and shareholders for more than 25 years. He is very well connected in the region and southern Germany, knows many public prosecutors and judges and can therefore best prepare his clients for the proceedings.

Another focus of his work is advising and defending clients accused of fraud or breach of trust. David Knauf also uses his practical experience from various proceedings in expert opinions, especially on allegations of embezzlement, and in shareholder disputes for the benefit of his clients.

Expertise and Practice

As an inheritance lawyer ,Ms Van Det advises and assists entrepreneurs and private individuals in all questions of pension and asset succession planning in Germany. In addition to emergency planning for private individuals, she also deals with emergency and succession planning for family businesses and all related problems.

Attorney van Det advises and represents clients in estate planning through wills, inheritance contracts or lifetime gifts, in the settlement of the inheritance case as well as in inheritance disputes. Ms. van Det also acts as executor of wills herself.

Another focus of her work is the support and representation of clients in the defense against claims for a compulsory portion as well as in claiming the compulsory portion.

In addition, Ms. van Det develops individual emergency plans including health care powers of attorney wills, patient and guardianship decrees.

As a mediator with many years of experience, Dorothee von Detten supports her clients - if desired - in solving their problems or conflicts as a neutral mediator.