The SSW Spaczyński, Szczepaniak & Partners Law Firm as one of the partners of the THINKTANK initiative “Family, property, company.”

The series of seven meetings for family-owned businesses “Talks about good succession” has been launched, with the first being held in Lublin on 24 June 2014. During the meetings, practical issues relating to succession are addressed, while the workshops part is designed to encourage interaction and exchange of experiences. In addition, during one of the sessions, participants have the opportunity to talk to owners of family-owned businesses, the senior and the successor, who have completed or are in the process of succession. In Lublin, the guests were Adam and Jacek Rozwadowscy from ENEL-MED Medical Centre.

During the workshops, SSW representatives, namely Wojciech Szczepaniak, Paweł Chyb, PhD, and Angelika Rokicka-Buczek from the SSW Family Office, spoke about the key issues that emerge in the succession process and about questions that need to be addressed in that context.      

This is the first educational project in Poland to address succession planning on such a wide scale. Other partners are Raiffeisen Polbank, Ipopema TFI and TU Europa. The initiative is related to the publication of a report which presents various aspects of the succession process in a family-owned business: those relating to business, law, taxes, but also psychological ones.