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It is estimated that $1.5 to $2 trillion is passed annually to younger generations. As the "Great Wealth Transfer" continues, family business owners face a distinct set of personal and sometimes conflicting wealth transfer considerations. These include preserving control, minimizing estate taxes and transaction costs and equitably transitioning ownership across generations. A well-designed estate plan, incorporating both testamentary planning and inter vivos transactions, can accomplish these objectives. This advisory summarizes three strategies that enable a family business owner to transfer future upside to the next generation (G2) while reducing transfer taxes: recapitalizations and discounted sales, sales and gifts to intentionally defective grantor trusts and grantor retained annuity trusts.

As previously reported in our advisory, the "Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act" (the HFIAA) caused directors and officers of foreign private issuers (FPIs) with equity securities registered under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act) to be subject to the beneficial ownership requirements under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act (Section 16(a)) beginning on March 18, 2026. On February 27, 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted final rules and amendments to implement the HFIAA. On March 5, 2026, the SEC exercised its discretionary authority under the HFIAA and issued an order granting an exemption from the beneficial ownership reporting requirements of Section 16(a) for officers and directors of certain FPIs. 

As the "Great Wealth Transfer" unfolds, family business owners face critical legal decisions in connection with a sale transaction that can determine whether a deal closes smoothly or is derailed as a result of preventable issues. This piece outlines three critical legal considerations for family business owners preparing for a sale, from understanding purchase price mechanics and the closing process to navigating due diligence. Grasping these concepts, processes and risks will streamline a transaction, maximize the enterprise value of the business and minimize closing risk.

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and digital infrastructure has created unprecedented demand for data center development. Developers and investors are increasingly focused on assembling land parcels in strategic locations to accommodate large-scale data center projects.

A new working paper from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve’s (Federal Reserve) Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) provides the most rigorous empirical validation to date of prediction markets as a tool for measuring macroeconomic expectations. The February 12 paper systematically compares prediction market-implied forecasts against established benchmarks, including the Bloomberg consensus estimates and data, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Market Expectations, and federal funds futures. The central finding: prediction markets perform as well as, and in some cases better than, the traditional forecasting instruments that central banks and market participants have relied on for decades.