## [Family Business](/pl/en_GB/services/family-business)
The **family businesses** that survive and thrive over time are those that manage to successfully reconcile three elements: ownership, family and management. They need tailored solutions to specific situations.
The **Garrigues Family Business service** offers a 360º approach to a broad range of issues and to the **tax and legal complications** faced by both the business and the family owners. Maintaining a global perspective at all times, in keeping with the complex reality of these companies, we have a long history of providing a **multidisciplinary service**, working closely as a team and pooling know-how in order to refine and improve the understanding of all matters involved.
Comprehensive insight into how the business works and a particular sensitivity to inter-family relations lie at the heart of our professional approach, focused on securing the continuity of the business over time.
To ensure this, our team is made up of **professionals specializing in different branches of the law** and from different service areas: Corporate and M&A, Tax, Human Capital Services, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, etc.
Our extensive office network ensures we are close at hand to offer high quality, innovative solutions and identify areas for ongoing improvement.
## Our services
### Business continuity and family succession
- **Analysis of continuity scenarios and design of the family succession plan** in relation to the strategic business plan.
- **Family protocols** setting out the code of conduct governing relations between family members.
- **Design of family governance structures,** namely the Family Council and Family Board.
- **Succession plans.**
- **Mediation and dispute resolution**.
- **Family training**: bespoke training programs.
- Setting up the family office, as a service aimed at **optimizing the family wealth and using it to full advantage.**
### Tax
- Analysis and implementation of corporate and financial structures.
- **Tax advice on transfer of ownership** of the family business and the assets comprising the family wealth.
- Analysis of the tax implications of liquidity agreements reached by the family.
- Tax burden of investment and divestment structures and processes for the internationalization of the family business.
- Tax implementation of the family protocol.
### Inheritance and matrimonial law
- Impact of sudden incapacity or death of family members on management of the business and on the family wealth.
- Planning as regards the economic arrangement applicable to married couples or stable partnerships and advice in relation to prenuptial and cohabitation agreements.
- Gifts of family businesses or wealth.
- Testate, contractual and intestate inheritance processes.
### Corporate governance: diligence of managing bodies
- Advice on the operation of the managing body and the legal regime governing directors’ compensation.
- Definition of directors’ rights and duties, establishment of the managing body’s annual program of activities.
- Preparation of the regulations governing the operation of the managing body and the organization and operation of the shareholders’ meeting.
- Director training programs and self-evaluation processes.
- Corporate impact of the sudden absence of key members of the organization. Contingency plans.
### Corporate law and commercial contracts
- Shareholders’ agreements to protect the family business and legal implementation of family protocols.
- Collaboration agreements, alliances and joint ventures.
- **International business expansion**.
- Sources of financing for family businesses: banks and public entities, debt issues, acquisition of stakes by financial shareholders, BME Growth (the former Spanish Alternative Equity Market), the Alternative Fixed-Income Market, etc.
- **Business restructuring and corporate reorganizations**, including structural modifications (mergers, spin-offs, etc.).
- Sale and purchase of family businesses.
- Plans for separation of family and business assets, and shareholder exit processes.
- Succession plans and plans for transfer of ownership.
- Shareholder conflicts or potential conflict scenarios.
### Human Capital Services
- **Integration of the family and business strategy** into the management team professionalization process. Planning and management of organizational changes.
- **Senior management compensation systems**: annual variable compensation, medium- and long-term incentives, and pension and welfare systems.
- **International HR management** ein processes for the internationalization of the family business: expatriate workers and tax impact of assignments.
- Termination of employment contracts and contracts for services.
### Intellectual property
- Ownership and validity of company trademarks.
- Design and patent infringement disputes.
- Protection of company know-how and intellection property rights.
- Valuation of intangible assets and their co-ownership by shareholders.
- Adaptation of trademark, design and patent registrations to international expansion plans.
- Unfair advertising and unfair competition.
- Guidelines on dealing with fake news.
- Damage to the right to honor, privacy and personal portrayal (in both the civil and criminal jurisdictions). Digital reputation.
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## Global heads
[Ramón J. Gómez ](/pl/en_GB/team/ramon-j-gomez-coll)
+34 976 46 89 46
[Zaragoza](https://www.garrigues.com/pl/en_GB/office/zaragoza)
[Contact](mailto:ramon.j.gomez.coll@garrigues.com)
[Alberto Guerra ](/pl/en_GB/team/alberto-guerra-san-jose)
+34 94 470 06 99
[Bilbao](https://www.garrigues.com/pl/en_GB/office/bilbao)
[Contact](mailto:alberto.guerra@garrigues.com)
## Global head
[Carlos Rapallo ](/pl/pl-PL/team/carlos-rapallo-fernandez)
+48 22 540 6100
Warszawa
[Contact](mailto:carlos.rapallo@garrigues.com)
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