When it comes to long-term planning for the transfer and protection of family wealth, many families face an important decision: should a family-managed company or a family foundation be set up?
Both legal forms offer advantages in terms of asset succession, protection and management,
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The legal regulations governing partnerships have become outdated. Many new court rulings have rendered the current regulations obsolete. This has made legal transactions with partnerships unnecessarily complicated in some cases and has made the GbR in particular non-transparent, combined with a certain loss of trust in the legal form itself.
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Information about a GbR and the persons behind the GbR has not been as easy to obtain as, for example, in the case of a GmbH.
This will change on 01.01.2024 when the Act to Modernise the Law on Partnerships (MoPeG) introduces the company register for civil law companies.
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GmbHs and UGs must correctly enter beneficial owners in the transparency register by June 30, 2022. Otherwise, those responsible will face heavy fines.
Read more about the transparency register and the registration deadline.
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Have you already notified the beneficial owners of your legal entity to the Transparency Register? Not yet? Then it is high time you did!
With the amendments to the Money Laundering Act (Transparency Register and Financial Information Act) that came into force on 1 August 2021,
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