On March 27, 2019, Davis Wright Tremaine and partners the Pacific Family Business Institute and Cascadia Capital, held a lunch in Yakima, Washington as part of their Family Business Legacy Series. ...more
Businesses and the families that own them are each “governed” by a structure and set of rules. Often, that structure is informal and the rules unwritten, vague and inconsistently applied. This creates a virtual breeding...more
The Pacific Family Business Institute (PFBI) has just released the results of its 2018 survey. With support from Cascadia Capital, Moss Adams and Davis Wright Tremaine, PFBI interviewed 81 family businesses in Washington and...more
The governance system for a family-owned business provides the structure through which the objectives of the owners and the company are set and the means for monitoring performance against them is established. This system...more
Recently, DWT’s Family Business Group sponsored a day-long workshop on Succession Planning featuring Professor Ivan Lansberg from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Professor Lansberg is one of the world...more