Your notary in Frankfurt!

As your notary in Frank­furt, I am at your dis­pos­al in all areas of notar­i­al ser­vice.
I con­sid­er myself as a mod­ern ser­vice provider. Pro­fes­sion­al excel­lence, indi­vid­ual sup­port and prompt­ness are the max­ims of my work. Please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact me!
My office is cen­tral­ly locat­ed — only a few hun­dred meters from the Alte Oper.

Focal points of notarial activity

The focal points of my notar­i­al work are real estate trans­ac­tions, i.e. in par­tic­u­lar the pur­chase of land and apart­ments, all areas of cor­po­rate law and busi­ness trans­ac­tions, as well as fam­i­ly and inher­i­tance law prop­er­ty arrange­ments and suc­ces­sion plan­ning. In addi­tion, I am also hap­py to take care of your oth­er notar­i­al needs, such as the prepa­ra­tion of pow­ers of attor­ney or certifications.

Individual service and promptness

I have a pro­nounced ser­vice ori­en­ta­tion. I attach great impor­tance to indi­vid­ual care and prompt han­dling of your con­cerns, from nota­riza­tion to set­tle­ment with the land reg­istry and oth­er reg­istries. Apart from your con­tact­ing my office, you will only be ser­viced by me per­son­al­ly. I take my time for you and will be hap­py to advise you. Usu­al­ly, I make appoint­ments very prompt­ly. Draft con­tracts can be pre­pared by me with­in 24 hours of receiv­ing the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion from you. Notary fees are set by law and are there­fore the same for all notaries. If required, I will be hap­py to pro­vide you with a cost estimate.

Professional excellence

I have many years of exten­sive expe­ri­ence in all areas of my notar­i­al prac­tice. My spe­cial­iza­tion enables me to meet the high­est qual­i­ty stan­dards. For 10 years now, I have been award­ed the rec­om­men­da­tion rat­ing “Germany’s Best Lawyers”, which is pub­lished annu­al­ly by the Ger­man busi­ness news­pa­per Han­dels­blatt, and I am also list­ed by the US pub­lish­er “Best Lawyers”.

Tax expertise

Due to my addi­tion­al qual­i­fi­ca­tion as a spe­cial­ist lawyer for tax law, I always keep an eye on the tax impli­ca­tions and am hap­py to coop­er­ate expert­ly with your tax advi­sors in find­ing tai­lor-made solu­tions to your concerns.

Internationality

Since I have always worked in an inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­ment, Eng­lish is my sec­ond work­ing lan­guage. Nota­riza­tions in Eng­lish are a mat­ter of course for me.

My range of notarial services

Real estate law

  • Real estate and apart­ment pur­chase contracts
  • Sale and trans­fer of real estate portfolios
  • Lease­hold contracts
  • Prop­er­ty devel­op­ment contracts
  • Dec­la­ra­tions of partition
  • Endow­ment agree­ments (antic­i­pat­ed succession)
  • Encum­brances on real prop­er­ty and condominiums
  • Liens on real property
  • Ease­ments and usufruc­tu­ary rights

Corporate Law / M&A

  • For­ma­tion of companies
  • Draft­ing of arti­cles of association
  • Con­ver­sion processes
  • Cap­i­tal increas­es / decreases
  • Share trans­fers and pledges
  • Share­hold­er res­o­lu­tions and gen­er­al meetings
  • Com­mer­cial reg­is­ter applications
  • Suc­ces­sion plans and agreements

Matrimonial and family matters

  • Mar­riage contracts
  • Part­ner contracts
  • Sep­a­ra­tion and divorce set­tle­ment agreements
  • Dona­tions
  • Adop­tion

Law of succession

  • Wills
  • Inher­i­tance contracts
  • Waiv­er of inher­i­tance and com­pul­so­ry portion
  • Plan­ning of antic­i­pat­ed succession
  • Com­pa­ny suc­ces­sion plans and agreements
  • Appli­ca­tion for inher­i­tance certificates
  • Foun­da­tions

General and health care proxies

  • pow­er of attor­ney in pro­pri­etary matters,
  • pow­er of attor­ney in per­son­al matters,
  • care direc­tive and
  • liv­ing will.

Certifications

For many mat­ters, it is suf­fi­cient if the sig­na­ture under your dec­la­ra­tion is cer­ti­fied. It is then not nec­es­sary to take the min­utes and read out the entire doc­u­ment to you. I would be hap­py to car­ry out such sig­na­ture cer­ti­fi­ca­tions for you in Ger­man or English. 

About me

1989 to 1994 

stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Frank­furt am Main and Würzburg 

1994 to 1996 

research assis­tant at the Insti­tute for Civ­il and Com­mer­cial Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Würzburg 

1996 

intern­ship as Law Clerk (U.S. Fed­er­al Court Mobile, Alaba­ma, U.S.A.)

1996 

admis­sion to the bar 

1997 

Dr. jur. (Uni­ver­si­ty of Würzburg) 

Since 1997 

work­ing as an attor­ney in Frank­furt am Main, ini­tial­ly with lead­ing inter­na­tion­al law firms, lat­er as a part­ner in my own law firms, in the areas of cor­po­rate law, M&A/private equi­ty, as well as real estate trans­ac­tions and suc­ces­sion issues. 

Since 2004 

also admit­ted as a spe­cial­ist lawyer for tax law 

Since 2015 

also admit­ted as notary in Frank­furt am Main 

Info-Material

For many mat­ters, it is suf­fi­cient if the sig­na­ture under your dec­la­ra­tion is cer­ti­fied. It is then not nec­es­sary to… 

Read more

Contact

Liebigstraße 10

60323 Frank­furt am Main

+49 69 713 766 80

lachner@lachner-law.com

OPEN MAP

The best way to reach my office by sub­way is to take the U6 or U7 stop “Alte Oper”. Leave the sta­tion in the direc­tion of Bock­en­heim. Walk about 200m on Bock­en­heimer Land­straße, pass­ing Ober­lin­dau and Unter­lin­dau. The next street to the right is Liebigstraße, which you walk down again about 80m to my office.

From the main sta­tion take one of the var­i­ous S‑Bahn trains to Hauptwache and from there the U6 or U7 to the stop “Alte Oper”. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion see descrip­tion “U‑Bahn”.

Com­ing from the A5, take the A648 at the West­kreuz Frank­furt in the direc­tion of Messe; at Messe turn left in the direc­tion of Bock­en­heim; then turn right into Bock­en­heimer Land­straße; then left into Frei­herr-vom-Stein-Straße; imme­di­ate­ly take the next right into Staufen­straße and the next right again into Liebigstraße.

From Frank­furt Air­port, you can either take one of the S‑Bahn trains to the main train sta­tion (trav­el time approx. 20 min­utes; from there, see the descrip­tion “Bahn”). Or take a cab, which will bring you to my office in about 20 min­utes in nor­mal traf­fic conditions.

If you need a park­ing space, please let me know and I can pro­vide you a park­ing space behind the house.