Dr. Anton Löhmer

Attorney at Law (DE)
E-mail: anton@rlp.li

Tel.: +423 376 65 39

Dr Anton Löhmer has practised as a lawyer in Munich with a focus on inheritance law and tax-optimised succession planning and has been admitted as a Registered European lawyer in Liechtenstein since 2022. He has practical experience in classical litigation and the Liechtenstein trust sector.

Dr Löhmer’s professional focus is on the connection between Liechtenstein foundation law and German inheritance and tax law. He assists entrepreneurs and private clients with the drafting of their wills and measures for anticipated succession, with a particular focus on the Liechtenstein foundation as an instrument for succession planning, tax planning and asset protection. He also deals with the enforcement of and defence against forced heirship claims and legacies, cross-border inheritance cases and inheritance disputes, shareholder disputes and the representation of his clients before tax authorities and tax courts.

Dr Löhmer regularly publishes in German and Liechtenstein legal journals in the areas of inheritance and tax law.

Selected customer references and projects

Languages

German, English

Career history

  • Legal Associate/Attorney at Law (GER) at IMT Financial Advisors AG/Kieber Nuener Struth Attorneys at Law, Vaduz (2022-2024)
  • Admitted as a Registered European lawyer at the Liechtenstein Bar (2022)
  • Attorney at Law at Schuhmann Rechtsanwälte, Munich (2018-2021)
  • Admitted as a lawyer at the Munich Bar Association (2018)
  • Scientific employee at Arnecke Sibeth Rechtsanwälte, Munich (2014-2016)
  • Legal trainee in Munich and Prishtina (2014-2016)

Education

  • Doctorate in Law at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2016-2023)
  • Postgraduate Master’s programme at University of Liechtenstein in Corporate, Foundation and Trust Law (2020-2022) 
  • Second Jurisprudential State Exam (2016)
  • First Jurisprudential State Exam (2014)
  • Studies of Philosophy at Munich School of Philosophy (2010-2013)
  • Studies of Law at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and LMU Munich (2008-2014)

Memberships

  • Munich Bar Association
  • Liechtenstein Bar Association
  • Juristen-Vereinigung Lebensrecht e.V.
  • Alumni Club of Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung

Publications

  • The civil law qualification of the controlled foundation in Liechtenstein and Germany, Liechtensteinische Juristenzeitung (LJZ) 2023, 173-192
  • Legal measures in the «race» of the heir with the beneficiary, ErbR 2023, 574-581 
  • Claims arising from forced heirship against the Liechtenstein foundation under consideration of German and Liechtenstein inheritance law, Dike Verlag, 2023
  • The remuneration of the foundation council under Liechtenstein law (together with Dr Erek Nuener and Florian Kindle), Liechtensteinische Juristenzeitung (LJZ) 2023, 88-109
  • The legacy disposition of the pre-heir about the pre-inheritance, ErbR 2022, 278-285
  • Negative reinvestment rates in the context of early repayment compensation, NJW 2020, 367-371
  • The single and double contradiction to nature in the scholastic doctrine of natural law, Leipziger Schriften 2018/2, 30-36
  • Omission offence, guarantor position and emergency aid in the context of abortion, Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht (ZfL) 2011, 38-47

Practice areas

PRIVATE CLIENTS

  • Tax-optimised estate planning
  • Lifetime property transfers
  • Establishment of family companies and family foundations
  • Will drafting
  • Division of estates
  • Purchase of inheritance shares
  • Disputes in the context of forced heirship
  • Adult adoptions
  • Certificate of inheritance proceedings
  • Tax and fiscal court proceedings

Corporate and financial market law

  • Establishment of holding foundations
  • Lifetime company transfers
  • Corporate taxation and exit taxation
  • Shareholder disputes