Wolfgang Burandt Of Counsel
Qualification
Lawyer, specialist lawyer for inheritance and family law
Areas of expertise
Special sector knowledge
- Consumer
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Brief biography
- Since 2020 Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars)
- 1990 - 2020 Independent attorney in Hamburg in various office partnerships
- 1986 - 1990 Research assistant at the Department of Economic and Organizational Sciences, Chair of Civil, Commercial and Corporate Law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces (now Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces) in Hamburg
- 1984 - 1986 Traineeship at the Hamburg Parliament, the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, the legal department of Dresdner Bank and the German-Canadian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Montréal, Prov. of Québec and Toronto, Prov. of Ontario
- 1977 - 1983 After school in Hamburg and Paris, law studies in Hamburg and supplementary studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Universiteit van Amsterdam/Columbia University N.Y., School of Law, and McGill University in Montréal
Profile
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Burandt joined Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars) in 2020 as Of Counsel at the office in Hamburg and has over 30 years of experience in the field of inheritance and family law as well as business, commercial and corporate law. He is a specialist lawyer for inheritance and family law, a licensed mediator (BAFM) and a certified executor (DVEV). He is a lecturer in business, banking and inheritance law for various institutions. His portfolio includes successful postgraduate studies in Mergers & Acquisitions (with a degree LL.M.) and Business Administration with a focus on Financial Management (with a degree MBA) as well as in the field of Mediation with a focus on court-appointed and family mediation (with a degree M.A.).
Publications
Prof. Dr. Burandt is the editor of Burandt/Rojahn, Erbrecht, commentary in the series "Beck'sche Kurzkommentare," and author and editor of more than 650 book and journal publications. He is the co-editor of FuR (Zeitschrift für Familie und Recht) and an advisory board member of ZErb (Zeitschrift für die Steuer- und Erbrechtspraxis), famrb (Familien-Rechtsberater) and NWB (Steuer- und Wirtschaftsrecht).