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Winning in Family Business Disputes

Winning in Family Business Disputes

£49.99

A practical guide for family business owners, founders, successors and the advisers who sit alongside them, written by a barrister and mediator who has grown up inside a family business and who now resolves family business disputes for a living.

Most family business disputes do not begin as legal problems. They begin as moments. A glance across a boardroom that lasts a beat too long. A decision taken without consulting someone who used to be consulted. A long-held assumption that the next generation will run the business, never properly tested. By the time the lawyers are involved, the moment is years in the past, and the dispute on paper is rarely about what the dispute is actually about.

Written by Robin Somerville, practising barrister, accredited commercial mediator, accredited workplace investigator and fee-paid judge, with extensive experience of shareholder, partnership and family business disputes.

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    The book explains:

    • why family business disputes are different from any other commercial dispute
    • the warning signs of conflict that founders and successors usually miss
    • how ownership structures, dividend policies and remuneration become flashpoints
    • how to handle the conversations about succession that families avoid
    • what governance failures cause disputes and how to fix them before they cause damage
    • how to recognise conflict escalation and stop it before the point of no return
    • how to use mediation effectively in family disputes
    • when litigation becomes inevitable and how to run it strategically
    • the law of partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, derivative claims and just and equitable winding up
    • the cognitive biases and emotional drivers that distort negotiation
    • how to design resolution outcomes that hold and rebuild after a dispute
    • the digital and social media risks that make disputes worse
    • how AI is changing legal services and dispute preparation

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