Family Businesses & Holding Groups
Introduction
Structure, governance and succession for holding groups and leading business families.
Holding groups and business families need structures that separate ownership from management, protect relationships across generations and still let the group move quickly.
We follow these groups from formation and licensing through investment, M&A and disputes, covering the companies, their directors and stakeholders across all branches.
Across the lifecycle
How we help
Structuring & formation
Structuring holding groups and family businesses, and separating ownership from management.
Contracts between group entities
Agreements between subsidiary entities, and shareholder and partner agreements.
Family & institutional governance
Family constitutions, family councils, and the holding company's governance charter and committees.
Succession & transition
Succession planning and the transfer of ownership between generations.
M&A
Absorbing subsidiary entities or acquiring new entities within the group.
Financing
Structuring financing for the group, the holding company and its subsidiaries.
Restructuring
Restructuring ownership and debt across group entities.
Disputes, litigation & settlement
Partner, shareholder and family disputes, amicably or through litigation before the courts.
Selected experience
Experience at scale, disclosed with care.
- Legal counselLegal counsel to a Saudi holding group with more than 512 subsidiariesLegal counsel to the whole group on governance, contracts between group entities and transactions for one of the Kingdom's largest holding structures.
- Legal counselLegal counsel to a Saudi holding group with more than 50 subsidiariesOngoing counsel on group structure, governance and legal risk across the holding company and its subsidiaries.
- Governance adviserGovernance frameworks and policies for more than 150 companiesDesigning and maintaining governance for companies under governance, including more than 250 governance and compliance policies.
- CounselRepresentation in disputes with a combined value of more than 20 billionRepresentation before judicial, quasi-judicial and arbitral bodies across commercial, shareholder and financial disputes.
- Legal adviserLiquidations and estates covering 10 billion in assetsLegal management of liquidation and estate matters, from asset identification and valuation to distribution.
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