This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Overview
All business relationships eventually end. Has your client planned adequately for the inevitable separation? Are you prepared to help them through the process?
Whether your clients are facing the dissolution of a partnership or preparing for a challenging exit, helping them understand the legal and strategic steps is key to protecting their interests.
You are your client’s best tool for minimizing conflict.
This seminar provides valuable guidance for helping clients properly prepare when they are initially entering into business owner relationships and for helping clients who are seeking to separate from their business partners.
Understand these considerations in a business divorce:
- Planning ahead to avoid litigation
- Negotiating a fair and equitable split: strategies that work
- Communication tactics for dissolving partnerships without escalating tensions
- Disputing the business divorce, with techniques for handling litigation, arbitration and mediation
- Managing the valuation process
This seminar will provide you with practical tools, strategies, and insight so that you can help your client navigate the process as efficiently and amicably as possible.
Faculty
Curtis L. Golkow, Esq.
Mr. Golkow is the founding member of Golkow Business Law LLC, a boutique law firm devoted to business, securities and finance law. For more than 35 years, his practice has concentrated heavily on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital-raising and other financing transactions, employment and compensation arrangements, and a wide array of other business and commercial matters. Mr. Golkow regularly counsels clients in the development and implementation of strategic plans, including business plans for start-up and expansion stage companies and succession plans for family businesses. He devotes a substantial portion of his practice to handling business divorces, often involving complex issues of corporate governance. He is a member of the American Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, where he served on the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section and is a former Chair of its Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. Mr. Golkow is a frequent speaker and lecturer on business law topics. He received his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Journal of International Business Law, and received his B.S. in Economics, cum laude, in 1985 from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Jason A. Levine, Esq.
Mr. Levine a shareholder at the Philadelphia-based firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, where he practices in the Litigation Department in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, focusing in particular on disputes involving privately held companies, including shareholder and partnership disputes and claims of breach of fiduciary duties. Mr. Levine often writes and speaks on emerging legal topics, focusing specifically on issues involving privately held companies. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and then graduated magna cum laude from Penn’s Law School. Outside of his legal practice, Mr. Levine is a regional Board and Executive Committee member of the Anti-Defamation League and focuses on combatting online hate and extremism.
Noel J. Capuano, CPA, CFF, CVA
Noel Capuano has more than 30 years of experience delivering forensic accounting, litigation, and valuation services to a diverse range of clients including individuals, closely held companies, and large corporations. Noel specializes in business valuation in connection with marital dissolution, buy/sell agreements, business disputes, employee stock ownership plans, and estate and gift planning. She has been qualified as an expert witness in various courts in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Noel, a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Jersey, is a frequent lecturer for professional groups including the Burlington County Bar Association, the Mercer County Bar Association, and various law firms. She covers topics relating to business valuation, the effective critique of opposing expert reports, and tax issues relating to divorce.
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