Jun 25, 2018 | Financial Smarts
(Written by Bradley Arant Boult Cummings for JDSupra as part of their Family Business Advocates Resource) Buyers often prefer to structure family business acquisitions as taxable asset purchases. In a taxable asset purchase, the buyer is entitled to write up the basis...
Jun 4, 2018 | Financial Smarts
(By Birketts LLP as originally appeared at Lexology.com) Running a family business can be exciting, frustrating, extremely busy and very rewarding both financially and emotionally. A lot of time will be taken up with immediate commercial and business decisions....
Apr 23, 2018 | Financial Smarts
(by Peter Ouma Muga for Standard Digital) Family-owned enterprises are those where one family owns 50 percent-plus of the business. This type of ownership structure accounts for upwards of 80 percent of companies worldwide, which makes family-owned businesses...
Apr 23, 2018 | Financial Smarts
(by Laurie Ingwerson for Financial Advisor) For many financial advisors, the stakes seem higher when the client is a family-owned business. Not only do these advisors need to understand the fundamentals of the business itself and the family’s vision for its future,...
Apr 9, 2018 | Financial Smarts
(by Mark Sanchez, Senior Writer for MiBiz.com) The federal tax reform law Congress passed and President Trump signed in December has ramifications for family-owned businesses and how they are ultimately transitioned from one generation to the next. Among the changes...
Nov 27, 2017 | Financial Smarts
(By Jan van Bueren and Thomas Ming as originally appeared in Tharawat Magazine) In this series we will discuss 5 major pitfalls to watch out for when moving from standard wealth management services (provided by a private bank) to dedicated family office services....
