Family-owned businesses come in all shapes and sizes and cover a spectrum of industries. They share all the same concerns as non-family businesses: profitability, responses to competition, adoption and adaptation to new...more
The award-winning TV sitcom Arrested Development, now in re-runs on Netflix, was premised on the rise (and mostly fall) of an American family business, the Bluth Company, owned by a comically dysfunctional family.
Engaged...more
We’ve all heard the chatter (or read about it in this blog). The owners of family businesses need to start thinking about their exit strategy. To put it in perspective, Robert Nason of John Molson School of Business reveals...more
In June of this year, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP hosted its fourth annual Farm to Label summit in Portland, Oregon. One of the programs of the day was a panel mediated by DWT’s Drew Steen on the role of a non-family member...more