Family and Closely-Held Business Planning
Attuned to the critical issues that face family and closely held businesses and focused on understanding yours, our unique Family and Closely-Held Business Planning Practice Groupย provides comprehensive, cost-sensitive and responsive counsel that integrates your business and personal objectives into a practical and cohesive planโwhatever the size of your company.
Responding to client needs, we created our Family and Closely-Held Business Planning Practice Group from a diverse group of attorneys skilled in the key areas most important to the success of businesses like yoursโwhether you’re a small, emerging firm or a large established company. Our focused approachโworking to know your business and your industryโaims at providing you a full range of vital legal services at reasonable cost.
Our groups’ business lawyers will draft your shareholder, financing, commercial and employment agreements and handle other general business matters; our tax and estate planning attorneys will design estate planning programs for you and benefit arrangements for your employees; our knowledgeable real estate, litigation and intellectual property attorneysโamong othersโstand ready to assist when needed. All work together seamlessly and cost-effectively with little wasted motion to give you exceptional value while advancing both your business and family objectives.
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