Focus Area
Family Owned & Closely Held Businesses
Owners of family businesses and closely held enterprises must navigate a complex mix of business goals, personal relationships, and long-term legacy. Our team helps clients manage governance, succession, and strategic growth with advice that blends legal, financial, and interpersonal insight, and we work closely with those clients to promote stability of the business and preserve value across generations.
We guide clients through leadership transitions, ownership structuring, financing, and other pivotal situations that affect the level of success of both the business and the family. Our work includes buyout agreements, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection, tax advice and succession planning. Clients span industries such as manufacturing, distribution, retail, restaurant, hospitality, professional services, technology, education, healthcare, construction, and real estate development and management.
We draw on the capabilities of our corporate, tax, trust and estate, real estate, litigation, and employment teams and work alongside accountants, investment professionals, and family business consultants to address complex challenges and deliver cohesive, long-term strategies.
Many of our lawyers have backgrounds in accounting, finance, product development, and senior corporate management, offering insight into operational challenges and competitive pressures. This depth of experience, combined with a commitment to provide practical, forward-looking counsel, has earned the trust of family businesses for generations.
Expertise
Key Contacts
Laurie J. Hall
Director, Boston
lhall@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 4028
Michael A. Hickey
Director, Boston
mhickey@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 4157