Strategic counsel before positions become entrenched.

The decisions made before divorce proceedings begin can shape what follows. We advise clients during this critical period, with a focus on strategy, preparation and the disciplined management of conflicts.

Our work helps clients identify priorities, organise complex financial and personal information, prepare for difficult discussions and approach negotiations with clarity rather than reaction.

Where circumstances permit, we seek to reduce unnecessary escalation and preserve the possibility of a negotiated resolution. De-escalation does not mean compromising a client’s interests. It means distinguishing between issues that require litigation and those that can be resolved through structured dialogue, negotiation or mediation.

Our objective is to help clients enter the next stage — whether negotiation, mediation or proceedings — informed, prepared and with a clearly defined strategy.

Family businesses combine commercial relationships with personal ones. When conflicts arise, the consequences can extend well beyond the immediate disagreement.

Differences concerning leadership, succession, ownership, governance, remuneration, distributions, strategy or the respective roles of family members can affect not only the individuals involved, but also the stability and long-term value of the enterprise.

We help identify the interests at stake, clarify decision-making structures, prepare for difficult discussions and develop strategies aimed at preventing disagreement from becoming institutional paralysis or destructive litigation.

Preserving value may also mean preserving relationships. We approach these matters with discretion and an understanding that the strongest solution often addresses the immediate dispute without losing sight of the business, the family and the generation that follows.

Shareholder disputes can place significant value at risk. Differences over control, governance, strategic direction, management, information rights, distributions, financing, valuation or exit arrangements can quickly develop into a wider challenge for the company.

We advise clients at an early stage, before positions become unnecessarily entrenched and while strategic options remain available.

Our approach begins with a disciplined assessment of the relationships, interests and decision-making structures involved. We help clients define their objectives, understand points of leverage and exposure, prepare for negotiations and evaluate potential pathways towards resolution.

The legal position matters. So do timing, governance, leverage, liquidity, reputation and the preservation of enterprise value. We consider them together.

Complex matters often require advice or representation from lawyers in different jurisdictions or with particular areas of specialisation. We assist clients in identifying the expertise their matter may require and, where appropriate, in selecting suitably qualified external counsel.

Once counsel has been engaged, we help organise the relevant facts, documents, chronology, issues and objectives so that external counsel can understand the matter efficiently and focus on the questions requiring their expertise.

Where several advisers are engaged, we support the client in coordinating communications and understanding their respective roles and responsibilities, while each lawyer remains independently responsible for advice and representation within their own competence and jurisdiction.

Our role is not to substitute our judgment for that of appropriately qualified counsel, but to help the client approach that relationship organised, prepared and with clearly identified objectives.

Acting effectively across borders requires more than instructing separate advisers in each country. It requires a single view of the client’s objectives, an understanding of how developments in one jurisdiction influence positions and options in another, and discipline in the sequencing of the steps that follow.

We help clients structure an international matter: identifying the jurisdictions and expertise the matter requires, coordinating advisers, and maintaining a coherent strategy while local proceedings, negotiations and deadlines run in parallel.