“Family firms have to deal with economic, fiscal, legal and staffing problems. The family running the firm have to cope successfully with inter-personal problems of a family kind. This means that a large range of problems are brought to a legal practice – problems of commercial law, company law, tax and employment law. In addition, there are problems of family law and inheritance law to solve.

When attending to the needs of family firms and the families which run them, however, this is a no more than a lawyer’s duty. The art is to design a successful scheme of interaction between family and company.

Our experience has shown that an entrepreneur is always particularly concerned not to give up all influence on his life’s work too early.”