Closely Held Businesses
Shipman & Goodwin offers sophisticated, cost effective and practical assistance to closely held and family owned businesses of all kinds. With a long tradition of representing closely and family owned businesses, a practical approach to the practice of law, and extensive experience with the unique challenges faced by these clients, we become valued counselors.
Our business, trusts and estates, real estate, tax and litigation attorneys work together to effectively counsel family and closely held business. We recognize that these clients face all the challenges of other businesses as they compete for people, capital and market share, but that they also face the unique challenges of families or partners working together over time and even across generations.
In addition to the general services that all businesses require, including business and finance, tax, commercial finance, intellectual property, real estate, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions and business litigation, our representation of these clients includes:
- Organizational matters, including choice of entity, control arrangements and buy-sell agreements
- Shareholder disputes and ownership transition
- Phantom stock and other equity-like compensation that does not transition actual ownership or control, as well as equity compensation
- Estate planning
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