PUBLICATION ARCHIVE

10

Feb

Corporate Divorce: Options for Dealing with Shareholder Disputes



 

It is often said that we spend more time with the people we work with than with our families. When business partners get in to bed together to run a corporation, many of the same dynamics and pressures of a marriage come in to play. Like a domestic marriage, sometimes relationships do not work out and a ‘corporate divorce’ becomes the only viable option. In these circumstances, a solution must be found for buying out one of the owners. If a buy-out is not an option, then a process for selling and divvying up assets of the business will have to be found.