Closely Held and Family Owned Businesses

G. BREUER has developed expertise in advising sole proprietors and other businessmen who undergo changes in the capital structure of their businesses, and who deal with the issue of transferring control to subsequent generations or to third persons. The requirements posed by the needs for new investments and for a professional management, on the one hand, and those demands by investors and minority shareholders, on the other, have brought about situations and needs that make the preventive advice to family businesses’ owners an activity of special intensity.

Advising in this area implies helping families to plan and decide  the direction of their business, the protection for minorities and majorities, the regulation of the appointment and separation of officers, the gradual involvement of the new generations into management, and the protection for directors’ and managers’ liability, among other issues.