Family Business

The Family Business Group includes Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira lawyers specialized in counseling family companies. It is a multi-disciplinary group of lawyers from various legal practice areas, who work together with family businesses. The group’s lawyers are specialized mainly in civil, commercial, tax and labor law.

Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira is a leader in the search for solutions for family companies. It has more than 100 lawyers specialized in legal counseling for family businesses in Spain, all with extensive legal and financial training. The lawyers’ work within the Family Business Group, and in their own areas of expertise, allows them to offer clients solutions for the situations family businesses encounter, regardless of their sector, generational stage or type of family company.

The Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira Family Business Group offers the following consultancy services: 

• Negotiating, drafting and executing family business agreements and shareholders agreements.
• Reorganizing family assets, including tax planning and execution of the necessary documents.
• Restructuring companies within family business groups.
• Planning, studying and negotiating sales, purchases, mergers and spin-offs of companies within family businesses, either within the family or with third parties, other families, companies, directors or institutional investors.
• Planning succession of estate; drafting wills and succession agreements; executing donations, exchanges, and sales; and carrying out other legal business matters required to transfer family assets from one generation to another.
• Drafting premarital agreements for members of family businesses.
• Adapting by-laws to the needs of the family or to family business agreements and drafting by-laws of the board of directors or of the family board.
• Studying and implementing remuneration schemes for members of family businesses, whether or not they manage the businesses; these schemes must be optimally efficient from a tax perspective while observing the operational norms of businesses and families.
• Drafting employment contracts designed especially for family members and non-family members who work in the family business.