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Jonathan Merz

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As a member of the Private Client Practice Group, Jonathan advises on corporate and private succession matters. He specialises in the design and implementation of lifetime and testamentary succession. This includes providing comprehensive advice to family businesses, family offices, foundations and executors of last wills and testaments on inheritance and corporate law issues.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Private client
Private investment & family owned businesses
Trophy assets
Wills and succession planning

Sectors

Private wealth

CV

Since 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2023 Legal clerkship in an international law firm
2022 - 2023 Tutor, Juristisches Repetitorium Hemmer
2021 - 2022 Research assistant at a boutique law firm specialised in white-collar crime
2024 PhD candidate, University of Regensburg
2024 Bar Exam, Munich
2022 Business mediator
2022 - 2024 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich, including work experience at an international law firm
2022 First State Examination
2016 - 2022 Law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
2016 A-levels at the Maximiliansgymnasium, Munich

Career

Since 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2023 Legal clerkship in an international law firm
2022 - 2023 Tutor, Juristisches Repetitorium Hemmer
2021 - 2022 Research assistant at a boutique law firm specialised in white-collar crime

Education

2024 PhD candidate, University of Regensburg
2024 Bar Exam, Munich
2022 Business mediator
2022 - 2024 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich, including work experience at an international law firm
2022 First State Examination
2016 - 2022 Law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
2016 A-levels at the Maximiliansgymnasium, Munich

Additional languages

English

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