The Family Business Guide
eBook - PDF

The Family Business Guide

Everything You Need to Know to Manage Your Business from Legal Planning to Business Strategies

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Family Business Guide

Everything You Need to Know to Manage Your Business from Legal Planning to Business Strategies

About this book

A practical guide to best and worst practices for family businesses - from drawing up incorporation documents to succession planning to selling the business. The book also includes examples from actual court cases and presents these lessons in an accessible manner. Sample legal agreements are included which help to avoid some of the major risks to the family business.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Family Business Guide
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Succession Planning
  7. Chapter 2 Family Employee Agreements and Shareholder Agreements
  8. Chapter 3 Governance Structures for Family Businesses
  9. Chapter 4 Worst Practices: What We Can Learn from Family Disasters
  10. Chapter 5 Compensating Family Members
  11. Chapter 6 Creating Phantom Equity Incentives for Key Employees, Both Family and Non-Family
  12. Chapter 7 Dealing with Inactive Minority Shareholders
  13. Chapter 8 Eliminating Minority Shareholders
  14. Chapter 9 Family Businesses in Financial Distress
  15. Chapter 10 Selling a Family Owned Business
  16. Chapter 11 Preserving and Transferring Family Wealth
  17. Chapter 12 Family Businesses Going Public
  18. APPENDIX 1 Selected Portions of a Speech by Philip Clemens, Chairman/CEO, Clemens Family Corporation October, 2008
  19. APPENDIX 2 Prenuptial Agreement
  20. APPENDIX 3 Irrevocable Spendthrift Trust
  21. APPENDIX 4 Phantom Unit Agreement for Key Employees
  22. APPENDIX 5 Private Company [Sale or IPO Exit] ABC, Inc., 2010 Stock Option Plan
  23. Notes
  24. Index