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Best practices for business governance

Gregory Monday, Shareholder

August 8, 2012

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Good governance practices can enhance the value of a family-controlled business in many ways. They can improve the business’ financial performance, protect the owners’ other assets, overcome deficiencies in succession planning and provide a way to avoid or resolve conflict among the owners without litigation.  

Senior generation owners and their managers might (rightly or wrongly) view business succession planning as something that can be deferred to a later date, but good business governance practices are always needed and can provide both immediate and long-term benefits. Good governance of a family-controlled business requires a combination of appropriate business organization documents, insider contracts and estate-planning mechanisms...

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About the Author

Gregory Monday

Shareholder, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Attorneys at Law

http://www.reinhartlaw.com

Attorney Gregory Monday is a shareholder in the law firm Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren.  Mr. Monday represents mid-market family companies and their owners with respect to governance, ownership, and succession issues.  Mr. Monday teaches business law classes as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.  He is a co-chair of a subcommittee on the Governance of Private and Family-Controlled Companies in the Business Law section of the American Bar Association, and he is a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he serves on the Business Planning committee. Mr. Monday has been listed in the directory of The Best Lawyers in America® since 2001, and is Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™ in Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system.