• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Intellectual property
        • Information technology
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
        • Tax
        • Venture capital
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse all insights
    • In focus
        • AI
        • Dealonomics
        • Disputes
        • Intellectual property
        • MENA
        • Regulation
        • Browse in focus
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse all events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Pia Thress
Pia Thress, Maître en Droit (Paris II)
Pia Thress, Maître en Droit (Paris II)

Pia Thress, Maître en Droit (Paris II)

Salary Partner

  • Munich Germany
Contact Me Today
+49 89 21038 0
vCard
Email me Call me
Featured award

Legal 500 2026

Recommended Lawyer for Private Clients for Nonprofits

Scroll to featured award

Pia is specialised in advising family businesses and wealthy individuals. One focus of her work is on succession planning, be it through the transfer of assets during life or death. Pia has particular expertise in the drafting of wills and inheritance contracts with an international connection as well as in the estate planning of international assets.

In addition, Pia regularly advises family foundations as well as charitable foundations and non-profit limited liability companies. Her expertise covers the establishment of foundations and limited liability companies as well as their ongoing advice, including advice to founders and beneficiaries or shareholders.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Private client
Private investment & family owned businesses
Trophy assets
French German group

Sectors

Private wealth

CV

Since 2018 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2016 – 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2016 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich
Since 2024 Certified executor (AGT)
2012 Second state examination, Munich
2011 Qualification, Commercial Mediator (MuCDR)
2010 – 2012 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich and at the German Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 – 2010 Activity at the Chair, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. Möllers, University of Augsburg
2008 First state examination, Munich
2006 Maîtrise en Droit, University Panthéon–Assas Paris II, Paris, France
2005 Licence en Droit, University Panthéon–Assas, Paris II, Paris, France
2002 – 2008 Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich

Career

Since 2018 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2016 – 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2016 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich

Education

Since 2024 Certified executor (AGT)
2012 Second state examination, Munich
2011 Qualification, Commercial Mediator (MuCDR)
2010 – 2012 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich and at the German Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 – 2010 Activity at the Chair, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. Möllers, University of Augsburg
2008 First state examination, Munich
2006 Maîtrise en Droit, University Panthéon–Assas Paris II, Paris, France
2005 Licence en Droit, University Panthéon–Assas, Paris II, Paris, France
2002 – 2008 Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich

Additional languages

English French

Awards

Legal 500 2026

Featured

Recommended Lawyer for Private Clients for Nonprofits

JUVE Awards 2023

Law Firm of the Year for Succession, Wealth, Foundations

Related news & insights

Private Wealth
Private wealth

Employment rights changes

30 March 2026
Briefing

by Helen Farr

Click here to find out more
Private Wealth
Private wealth

Coming to the UK – proactive planning extends appeal of four-year FIG regime

30 March 2026
Quick read

by Alexander Erskine and Becky Bailes

Click here to find out more
Different coloured abacus
Tax

Strengthening our Real Estate Sector capabilities with appointment of tax expert Gemma Grunewald

4 March 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Low angle view of modern building
Private wealth

Navigating the shifting UK luxury residential property landscape

10 February 2026
Quick read

by Rachel George

Click here to find out more
Close-Up Of Modern Office Facade
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Multiverse Group Limited and Multiverse GmbH on the acquisition of StackFuel GmbH

29 January 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Private Wealth
Private wealth

UK residence for Americans – the key is in the preparation

8 December 2025
Quick read

by Sophie Aitmehdi

Click here to find out more
Private wealth

Understanding tax residency in the UAE

3 December 2025
Quick read

by Samar Alam and Josh Eaton

Click here to find out more
Private Wealth
Private wealth

Navigating succession: essential touchpoints for Middle Eastern family wealth

28 November 2025
Quick read

by Sophie Aitmehdi

Click here to find out more
Private Wealth
Private wealth

Private wealth – UK real estate market update

24 November 2025
Quick read

by Paul Lawrence

Click here to find out more
Safe deposit boxes
Private client

Taxing times ahead? What to expect from the UK Autumn Budget 2025

20 October 2025
Quick read

by Alison Cartin and Becky Bailes

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

Germany
Global
Dr. Axel Godron

Dr. Axel Godron

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Hannah Berger Taylor Wessing

Hannah Berger, LL.M. (NYU)

Associate

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile

Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M.

Associate

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Maraike Ruhe

Dr. Maraike Ruhe

Salary Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile

Philipp Sutter, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile

Dennis Siedler-Stührwohldt

Senior Associate

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Martin Kraus

Martin Kraus

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Dr. Elisabeth Schalk

Dr. Elisabeth Schalk

Partner

Munich
San Francisco
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile

Jonathan Merz

Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Jens Escher

Prof. Dr. Jens Escher, LL.M.

Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Full team
Tom Connock

Tom Connock

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Dr. Lilian Klewitz–Haas

Dr. Lilian Klewitz-Haas

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Andrej Leontiev

Andrej Leontiev, LL.M.

Partner

Bratislava
+421 2 5263 2804
Email me
View profile
Maraike Ruhe

Dr. Maraike Ruhe

Salary Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile

Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M.

Associate

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Sophie Davidson

Sophie Davidson

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Dr. Elisabeth Schalk

Dr. Elisabeth Schalk

Partner

Munich
San Francisco
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Joshua Eaton

Josh Eaton

Senior Associate

Dubai
+971 43 09 1011
Email me
View profile
Aleksandra Kucharska

Aleksandra Kochaj

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
george porter

George Porter

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing