Shareholder Dispute, Valuation & Exit
Business divorces resolved through the litigation, tax, and transactional lenses at once.
A partnership stops working. The disputes are governance, compensation, and control on the surface, and valuation and tax underneath. A litigation-only response tends to burn value; a transactional-only response tends to underprice risk.
We build the strategy around the actual outcome the client wants — a clean exit, a buyout at defensible terms, a court-ordered valuation, or a restructured governance. The litigation team preserves leverage while the corporate and tax teams model the after-tax numbers on each exit structure and negotiate documents that survive both the deal and the eventual audit.
For family enterprises, estate planning is usually the missing seat at the table; we bring it in early so the exit does not blow up the succession plan.
Common questions
Do these matters usually go to trial?+
Most resolve through negotiated buyout or mediated settlement once the litigation posture is credible and the valuation gap is bridged. Some go the distance, and we prepare every matter as if it will.
How is the business valued?+
Through independent appraisal coordinated with counsel. The methodology fights are often the case.
What about the tax on the buyout?+
That is the point of running corporate and tax alongside the litigation — the deal structure and the tax result get modeled before either side signs.