Subjects:

Company Law

Contents:

Formation of a business - partnership or company?

operating the enterprise

divorce and the family business

death and the family business

minority protection

winding up and insolvency of family businesses.

A family firm is defined as one where the family body has a considerable impact on the operations of the business. This text is aimed at practitioners in small- to medium-sized firms whose clients are frequently members of a ""family business"", either in the form of a company or a partnership.