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Markus Schenk, EMBA

Lawyer, tax consultant, mediator and coach

Focal points of consulting

Company succession

Family business

Family Governance

Private Clients

Markus Schenk, EMBA

Consultant profile

Markus Schenk, EMBA

Markus Schenk advises family businesses with a focus on succession issues and the conflicts that frequently arise in this context.

In addition to providing legal and tax advice on wills, inheritance tax planning and declarations, drafting, reviewing and revising partnership and marriage contracts and preparing and implementing gifts, he advises business families on family governance. He is interested in the relationship between the entrepreneurial family and their family business, both from a legal and tax perspective as well as from an interpersonal perspective. His aim is to establish and secure family peace and business success.

Publications

Publications from Markus Schenk, EMBA

( née Betz )

  • Scheffolfd/Schenk, Inheritance Tax Favouring of Corporate Assets - Decision by the Federal Constitutional Court this year? RFamU 10/2025 p. 489
  • Schenk, The Berlin Will, TXGT blog from 09.07.2025
  • Schenk, Family governance and family strategy - what are they for and who should deal with them? TXGT blog from 01.07.2025
  • Schenk, The solidarity surcharge remains - the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on 26 March 2025, TXGT blog from 26/03/2025
  • Schenk/Scheffold, Is inheritance tax unconstitutional again? TXGT blog from 21/02/2025
  • Schenk, Negligent legislation thwarts succession planning with real estate in the group, Editorial, RFamU | 2/2024 | p.49
  • Schenk, The Entrepreneur's Will, RFamU | 8/2023 | p.356
  • Schenk, Mediation for family businesses, RFamU | 7/2022 | S.313
  • Schenk, Successfully accompanying company successions, using coaching for complex legal transactions, Schäffer Poeschel | 1st edition 2021
  • Panz/Schenk/Weisheit, series focussing on succession planning, BWNotZ | Ongoing since 2021
  • Betz, Tax Compliance for High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices, NWB Inheritance + Assets 4/2019 | S.124
  • Betz, Coaching for company succession and family governance, NWB Inheritance + Assets 1/2019 | S.35
  • Betz/Stiegler, Excessive taxation in the case of incomplete evidence of actual income from non-transparent, black investment funds, DStR | Issue 27/2017 | p.1463
  • Betz/Stiegler, On the tax liability of scholarships from third countries, IStR | 2016 | p. 850
  • Betz/Zillmer, Succession Planning in the Entrepreneurial Family Legal and Tax Pitfalls and Organisational Alternatives, NWB Inheritance + Assets 10/2016
  • Betz/Thiede, Der Strafzuschlag nach § 398a AO bei Selbstanzeigen Verschärfungung, Anwendungsfragen und Rechtsmitte, NWB Inheritance + Assets 6/2015 | S. 189
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