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Dr. Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack
Dr. Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack

Dr. Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack

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Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2025

“Cornelia is a dedicated, well-known matrimonial lawyer”

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Cornelia is a specialist lawyer for family law. Her practice focuses on providing clients with consensual and out-of-court solutions. This includes negotiating and drafting prenuptial agreements with a special focus on agreements of international relevance and separation agreements, as well as agreements covering the legal consequences of divorce.

 

A further focus of Cornelia’s practice is on advising high-net-worth individuals on all matters relating to corporate and asset succession - both in the area of anticipated succession through gifts inter vivos and by drawing up preventive wills prior to the death of the testator. If necessary, she also represents her clients’ interests in court. In addition, Cornelia gives specialist lectures on a regular basis.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Private client
Private investment & family owned businesses

Sectors

Private wealth

CV

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2008 – 2021 Lawyer, Taylor Wessing
2005 – 2007 Legal clerkship, Düsseldorf
2020 Mediator
2008 Admitted and established as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
2008 Doctoral degree on a theme of comparative law including research at Boston College, USA, LMU Munich
2007 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
2004 First state examination, Munich

Career

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2008 – 2021 Lawyer, Taylor Wessing
2005 – 2007 Legal clerkship, Düsseldorf

Education

2020 Mediator
2008 Admitted and established as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
2008 Doctoral degree on a theme of comparative law including research at Boston College, USA, LMU Munich
2007 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
2004 First state examination, Munich

Publications

Das neue Namensrecht – mehr Flexibilität, aber kein großer Wurf, in: privat banking magazin, 04/25, together with Johanna Beermann

Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2024 Germany Family Law, in: Legal 500 Family Law, 10/2024, together with Johanna Beermann

Vor- und Nacherbschaft vs. Vermächtnis auf den Überrest in der Beratungspraxis, in: Recht der Familienunternehmen, 11/2023, together with Saskia Ballon

Wie sich die Betreuungsreform auf Unternehmer und Vermögende auswirkt, in: private banking magazin, 03/2023, together with Johanna Beermann

Vorsorgevollmacht und Ehegattenvertretung – Praxisrelevante Neuerungen ab 01.01.2023, in: RFamU 2022, 559, together with Johanna Beermann

Wo der Bundesfinanzhof den Gestaltungsspielraum erweitert hat, in: private banking magazin, 07/2022, together with Johanna Beermann

Tücken der Vor- und Nacherbschaft in Unternehmerfamilien, in: private banking magazin, 03/2022, together with Saskia Ballon

Diese Besonderheiten gelten bei international geprägten Ehen, in: private banking magazin, 08/2021, together with Johanna Beermann

Scheidung: Mit diesen Tipps und Verträgen wird die Trennung nicht zum Firmenkiller, in: handwerk magazin, 03/2020

Bezos braucht jetzt besonderes Verhandlungsgeschick, Interview in WiWo, January 2019

Gestaltung von Unternehmereheverträgen, in: Wiese (Hrsg.), Unternehmensnachfolge - Steuerliche und rechtliche Gestaltung, 2020

Memberships & Associations

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Familienrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein

International Association of Family Lawyers

Additional languages

English

Awards

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2025

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“Cornelia is a dedicated, well-known matrimonial lawyer”

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2025

“Cornelia is very hands-on, client-oriented and sensitive to family issues.”

Legal 500 2025

Recommended Lawyer for Private Clients for Nonprofits

Legal 500 2025

Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack is able to quickly and confidently familiarise herself with complex issues, provides practical solutions and empathises with her clients.

Frequently recommended lawyer for Succession, Assets, Foundations

Key lawyer: Private Clients and Nonprofits

"I greatly appreciate Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack because she has an extraordinarily comprehensive knowledge of family and inheritance law and cross-border expertise."

Frequently recommended lawyer for succession/assets/foundations

'"very competent", client; "refreshingly clear statements without laying it on thick", competitor

Law Firm of the Year for Succession, Wealth, Foundations

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5 January 2024

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