Legal structure · Dispute resolution · Inheritance
Family and business: a bond that needs care and good counsel to endure.
If you own a family business, I can help you order the ownership structure, resolve disputes, handle inheritance and the transfer of the business to the next generation, and set the legal terms between the family and the company.
Sadegh Shamshiri
- Member of the Central Bar Association
- Graduate of the University of Tehran
- Founder of HENGAM Law Firm
A significant part of my professional experience has been shaped by working with companies and brands in whose founding, ownership and management families play a central role. In this work I have seen many times how family tensions find their way into the business, and how disputes over ownership, management or the transfer of assets to the next generation threaten the continuity of the business — at times pushing it to the brink of dissolution.
Experience as a lawyer and mediator, together with training in psychoanalysis, has deepened my conviction that legal action taken without regard to family relationships can intensify a dispute rather than resolve it. So in examining any matter, beyond the documents and the legal relationships, I also attend to the concerns of family members and the relationships between them — with the aim of finding solutions that both protect individual rights and help resolve the dispute for good.
Areas of practice
Dispute resolution and mediation
Resolving disputes among family members, partners and managers through negotiation, mediation or, where necessary, litigation — from disagreements over ownership and management to an agreed exit from the company.
Legal structure and family arrangements
Drafting a family charter, shareholders' agreements and revisions to the articles of association — clarifying rights and responsibilities, ordering decision-making, and preserving the cohesion and continuity of the business.
Inheritance and generational transfer
Advice and legal planning for transferring ownership and management of a business to the next generation, arranging the sale or assignment of shares, and handling inheritance disputes connected to a family business.
Do you need advice?
In a first meeting we review the ownership and management of your company together, and you leave with a clear legal picture.