Negotiations

Protecting your business’s intellectual property is a crucial ongoing effort. Your identity, products, and innovations are what set you apart from the competition and provide opportunities for long-term success. Failing to protect those proactively or reactively is a surefire way to cost your business significant value.

Despite all your good-faith efforts to avoid a dispute between yourself and other shareholders, disputes still pop up from time-to-time. Shareholder disputes often stem from the power imbalance between majority and minority shareholders (those who collectively hold less than 50 percent of the company), violations of the shareholder agreement, and general clashes between shareholders over the direction of the company.