Business owners often bring to our professionals several legal, family and management matters once the decision is made to plan for an ownership change of a business. Regardless of whether an employee or a family member is to assume ownership, or if the business is to be sold to an outside buyer, or even if ownership changes with a merger, we are prepared to assist you.

A given range of topics when ownership changes can be as non-legal as the need for help in introducing a child or key employee to the idea of becoming a future owner, or as legally specific as preparing an estate plan. Seldom will two business successions have the same identical needs. Smith Alling Lane provides expertise, whether it be document preparation, estate planning, internal company reorganization, a change in business structure, breakup of profit centers, property management, or search for new management.