We regularly advise family and closely held businesses and their owners with respect to shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, and succession planning, often working in tandem with our colleagues in the Trusts & Estates Practice Group. We have a great deal of experience in handling disputes between shareholders in these types of businesses, including both asserting and defending against "freeze-out" claims and similar intra-shareholder disputes.
Representative Experience
Working together, our Business and Trusts & Estates lawyers helped our client Tom’s of Maine negotiate the sale of a controlling interest in the company to Colgate-Palmolive, in which the family retained a 16% interest.