Family Business Advising
Garfinkle Biderman LLP has a long history of advising entrepreneurs, land developers and
business owners on business organization, financing, tax considerations, estate planning, and
general business advice. Many of our clients are family businesses that have developed over
generations through hard work. We understand that from time to time family businesses have
difficult decisions to make to adapt to changing circumstances especially in relation to managing
succession of the business, sale of the business, or changing corporate circumstances such as
insolvency or illness of a key decision maker. We offer a depth of experience in business, tax,
estate, corporate and insolvency advising and conflict management and resolution. Our partners
have deep experience and expertise in the legal issues and disagreements related to your business
and the changes it faces.
In our view the success or failure of any family enterprise depends more than anything, on how
well the stakeholders of the family enterprise can adapt to changing circumstances and
differences and work together to make thoughtful decisions. Our perspective is to help a family
business identify its long term goals and take actions required to achieve same. Tensions and
disagreements relating to changes can take your focus away from individual and business goals
and objectives. These disagreements must be understood before thoughtful decisions about the
business can be made that are accepted by all stakeholders. When that is the case, we can help a
family business to understand their family disagreements and to move towards decision making.