Family Businesses
Running a family-owned or closely held business and managing business objectives alongside your personal financial goals is increasingly complex. To make sure you balance the opportunities and risks and receive the broadest legal perspectives possible, turn to the Holland & Knight Family Business Team.
Comprehensive Advisory Services
The Family Businesses Team is organized to advise executives, business owners and other high net-worth individuals on the many diverse legal and tax issues affecting their compensation structure, tax planning, and all aspects of business succession and estate planning.
Advisory services are comprehensive in scope, encompassing the full depth and breadth of your legal needs, including the following:
Business Succession Planning
All businesses ultimately will be sold or transferred. As a successful business owner, you must have a plan for the orderly and efficient transfer of your interests. We have extensive business experience counseling owners on protection of assets involving family businesses; developing liquidity to preserve family ownership through creative life insurance techniques and other devices; appraisal and valuation issues; the development of partnership and shareholder agreements; voting trusts; and value-shifting techniques to minimize transfer taxes.
Draw From a Wealth of Firm Practitioners
Dedicated Family Business advisors draw in other firm practitioners to bring the right blend of resources to bear on your particular matters in a cost-efficient manner.
Receive Hands-on Support Driven By A Client Service Commitment
By becoming partners in your business and individual legal needs, the team can focus on your entire legal picture, providing higher quality and more effective legal services. Close involvement allows us to anticipate legal issues affecting you before they become significant obstacles. If issues do arise, the firm is involved at an early stage, minimizing the potential adverse impact and cost.