Leader in finding solutions for each family business
Since the establishment of the Family Business Group 20 years ago, the systematic acquisition and management of know-how and experience has enabled our firm to offer clients the most expansive body of knowledge in this area currently available in Spain, and has set us apart as the indisputable leader in this field throughout the Iberian Peninsula.
The experience Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira has with family-owned businesses is as extensive as any national or international firm can lay claim to. Numerous entrepreneurial families have entrusted us with their legal advising regarding business matters, as well as regarding relationships between family members and companies, and within the family itself. Providing this comprehensive outlook, we have collaborated on the expansion and consolidation of countless family businesses.
Our Family Business Group has more than 100 lawyers specialized in legal counseling for family businesses in Spain and Portugal, all with extensive legal and financial training. The lawyers work within the Family Business Group, as well as in their own areas of expertise, enabling them to offer clients solutions to the situations they encounter, regardless of their sector, generational stage or type of family business. The group’s lawyers are specialized mainly in civil, commercial, labor and tax law.
Family business agreements and other agreements: We advise on negotiating, drafting and implementing family business protocols and shareholders agreements.
Good governance: We advise on adapting family business by-laws to the family’s needs or protocols, and on drafting the rules of the board of directors or of the family board.
Reorganizing family assets: We advise on reorganizing family assets, including tax planning and preparing the necessary related documents.
Succession planning: We advise on planning succession of estate; drafting wills and succession agreements; implementing donations, exchanges, and sales; and carrying out other legal transactions required to transfer family assets from one generation to another.
Premarital and cohabitation agreements: We advise on drafting premarital and cohabitation agreements for the members of family businesses.
Restructuring: We advise on restructuring companies within family business groups.
Tax: We advise on tax planning for family businesses and their members.
M&A: We advise on planning, studying and negotiating sales, purchases, mergers and spin-offs of companies of family businesses, within the family or with other families, companies, directors or institutional investors.
Remuneration schemes: We study and implement remuneration schemes for members of family businesses, whether or not they manage them, ensuring that these schemes are optimally tax efficient, while observing the operating norms of the businesses and families.
Employment contracts: We draft employment contracts designed especially for family members and non-family members who work in the family business.
Training for family businesses: We prepare and give training on legal matters of particular interest to the members of family businesses, adapting the content to the profile of attendees: family members working in the family business, family member shareholders not working in the business and non-shareholder family members.
