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Business Value – Tapping into What Owners Care About

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In a recent video, Jeff Faulkner, co-founder of the International Succession Planning Association, spoke about the importance of succession planning for business owners. Faulkner emphasized that succession planning is not...more

IR Global

Understanding Client Motivations: Key to Making a Significant Impact

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Jeff Faulkner, co-founder of the International Succession Planning Association, speaks about the challenges that arise when transferring ownership of a business to the next generation. In the video, he points out the...more

Miller & Martin PLLC

Practical Advice for Family Business Succession

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Combining family issues with business considerations is enough to stress even the most thoughtful and successful business owner. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the stress in family business succession. The...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Keep It in the Family: Three Tips for Preserving Family Business Interests

As a family business owner, are you missing out on valuable estate and wealth transfer planning opportunities or jeopardizing your current plan altogether? Katten recently hosted a program that addressed common concerns,...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Has Your Business Attorney Met Your Estate Planning Attorney?

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Every business should have documentation that confirms its ownership, management, and governance structures. If the business has more than one owner, the documentation should address transfers of ownership interests and...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Tax Increases Are In Sight

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Summertime in Washington- On August 11, the Senate passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution for the 2021-2022 fiscal year – S. Con. Res. 14, as amended – by a vote of 50 to 49, strictly along party lines, including...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Real-Life Lessons on How Mid-Sized Companies Handle Ownership Transitions

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Business consultant Karen Albritton along with Ward and Smith attorneys Deana Labriola and Matt Thompson, all with personal experience in a variety of companies, discussed several of the tricky issues related to ownership...more

Gray Reed

Can a Family Business Succession Plan be Successful?

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Finishing a best-year-ever 2018 and being questioned daily by his second wife Anna Nicole about making her children officers and owners of the family business Buxboro State Bank, Big Daddy Ernest Bux concludes, at 65 years...more

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Owner Dilemmas: Should I Stay, Go, Lead, or Follow?

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You’ve built a great business. You want to do the smart work of planning for an orderly succession and transition to the next generation of leaders and owners. You’ve planned well and have financial flexibility. Some...more

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Family Affair: Potential Problems with Family-Owned Businesses

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Some of the most heartbreaking situations we see in our closely-held business and estate practices are families torn apart over differences in dealing with family-owned businesses. When there are problems with...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - April/May 2018

In This Issue: - Estate planning for your business: Use an ESOP to properly address your closely held company - Are your assets protected from creditors? - Preparing a parent for a nursing home - ESTATE PLANNING...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Transitions in the Family Business, Part I: Caring for the Goose

Last week, Bradley’s Family Business Advocates team co-hosted Transitions in the Family Business: A Conversation with Family Business Owners and Leaders with Warren Averett. ...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Proposed Tax Regulations Limit Availability of Valuation Discounts to Family Business Owners

For family business owners who desire to transfer ownership of part of their business to the next generation, the valuation of the business interest is often an important factor to consider. This is especially true for family...more

Burr & Forman

IRS Proposes New Rules Designed to Restrict Valuation Discounts in Family Transfers

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Partnerships and LLCs are common choices of entity for family-owned businesses, due to their flexibility and the many uses to which they can be put – including pooling of family assets, succession planning, asset protection,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

IRS Proposes Regulations to Limit Valuation Discounts for Family Businesses

On August 2, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations intended to substantially limit the use of discounts in valuing intra-family transfers of interests in family-controlled...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Proposed 2704 Regulations: Significant Impact on Valuation Discounts for Family Businesses

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Background: On August 4, 2016, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations addressing the valuation of certain business interests for federal estate, gift and generation-skipping tax...more

Dechert LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Regarding Valuation Discounts for Transfers of Family-Controlled Entities, if Enacted, Would Apply...

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After years of anticipation, the U.S. IRS recently issued Proposed Treasury Regulations that would, if enacted in their current form, substantially eliminate most valuation discounts for family-controlled entities and result...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Proposed Regulations Under Internal Revenue Code Section 2704: Changes May Be Coming to Transfers of Closely Held Business...

On August 2, 2016, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations under the authority provided in Section 2704(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"). These proposed regulations were much anticipated by the estate...more

Burr & Forman

Family-Controlled Businesses -- Tax Targets Again: Newly Proposed 2704 Regulations and Presidential Candidates' Positions

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It's August of an election---year, and not just any election---year, a presidential election year. So, in less than 80 days, we'll all go to the polls and elect a new president. While Benjamin Franklin might have been right...more

Dickinson Wright

The End to Discounts for Transfers of Interests in Family Business Entities

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The ability to use transfer and liquidation restrictions in legal documents to reduce the value of an interest in a family-controlled (or “closely-held”) business entity (e.g., partnership, corporation, limited liability...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Would Severely Limit Valuation Discounts

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury unveiled its long-awaited proposed regulations targeting valuation discounts commonly used in estate planning, thereby overturning decades of settled law. As drafted,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Proposed Rules Would Limit Valuation Discounts for Family Controlled Entities

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On August 2, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations that would severely limit valuation discounts for lack of marketability and lack of control that taxpayers have historically applied for federal gift,...more

Stinson LLP

IRS Proposes Rules That Would Dramatically Reduce Valuation Discounts in Family Business Succession Planning

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Business Owners May Have Little Time to Act Before Rules Are Finalized - The valuation of a family member's interest in a family business has a major impact on the success or failure of a transfer of such interest to...more

Troutman Pepper

IRS Proposes New Regulations That Will Significantly Limit the Use of Valuation Discounts on Transfers of Interests in Closely...

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The proposed regulations disregard restrictions that have been used by valuation experts and acknowledged by the courts to reduce valuations. If you are an owner of a closely held entity, recently proposed Treasury...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Proposed Section 2704 Regulations

On August 2, 2016, the Treasury Department released proposed regulations amending and expanding upon the current regulations to Internal Revenue Code Section 2704. The proposed regulations, if adopted, would affect the...more

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