Business Succession Planning
Your family. Your business. Your future. Our passion is protecting your loved ones, the business you built from the ground up, and the assets you have accumulated through a lifetime of hard work. The estate planning attorneys at Cutler & Donahoe, LLP are experienced with all facets of estate planning, asset protection, business succession, and wealth preservation. Our attorneys identify solutions to meet each client’s particular needs and goals. Our attorneys provide the following services:
Estate planning, wills & trusts
Asset protection
Business planning
Business succession planning
Charitable gifting & legacy planning
Guardianship & conservatorship services
Long-term care planning & elder law
Special needs planning
Personal injury settlement planning
Powers of attorney & advance directives
Trust & estate administration/probate
Trust & estate litigation/will contests
Business trusts
Marital agreements
Planning for Family Businesses,
Farming & Ranching
Here in the midwest, family businesses, farms and ranches are our backbone and heritage. At Cutler & Donahoe, LLP we understand the unique and complicated challenges that face family business owners, farmers, ranchers and landowners. Our attorneys use cutting-edge legal and tax planning techniques to help our clients make prudent business, financial and personal decisions. Our attorneys provide the following services:
Management & preservation of assets
Liability protection strategies
Fiduciary duties
Structuring redemption agreements, option contracts, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements & rights of refusal
Separating ownership & control
Entity status, subchapter S elections, limited liability companies & family limited partnerships
Business trusts & real estate trusts
ESOPs & other employee ownership structures
Private split-dollar arrangements & other advanced funding mechanisms
Option contracts
Employment and labor law
Business law
Business succession planning requires strategic planning and tactical decisions. Our business planning services integrate your business goals, estate planning, tax strategies, and retirement needs. Both long-term and short-term planning are necessary to prevent your business from getting caught up in ownership and control disputes among family members or shareholders upon your retirement, death, or disability. An approach that combines estate, retirement, and business planning is necessary to allow your business to flourish and ensure the successful transition from one generation to the next while maximizing the value for you and your loved ones. Our attorneys provide the following services:
Asset Protection planning
Succession planning for closely held business interests
Shareholder agreements
Buy-sell agreements
Board structure & governance issues, before, during & after intergenerational transfers
When & how to sell your business
Phantom stock plans, deferred compensation & golden parachute plans
Equitable planning for children involved in the business & children not involved
Employment and labor law
Business law
Our attorneys will help you develop appropriate planning strategies and solutions. Our firm offers clients the quality, skills and technical expertise clients need, along with the expertise of business, real estate, and litigation skills of a general practice law firm.
