Conflict within private capital
The conflict is inside the structure: between generations, between principals, between the family and the executives who run its capital. The legal questions are real, but they sit on top of relationships, succession, and identity – and the matter must be resolved without ever becoming public.
The environment
- Succession conflict in family businesses and family offices.
- Disputes between principals of private investment vehicles.
- Governance breakdowns in structures that were built on trust rather than documents.
- Matters where publicity would itself be a material harm.
The questions we work on
- What resolution preserves both the capital and the relationships that must survive it.
- How governance is restructured so the conflict does not recur.
- Which advisers are brought in, and how their work is kept coherent and contained.
- How discretion is maintained through the resolution itself.
- Where the principal’s interests end and the structure’s begin.
How the firm is engaged
These mandates are almost always referred. Corvian acts for a principal or for the structure itself, working quietly alongside existing counsel and wealth advisers. Visibility is controlled by default; the fact of the engagement is itself confidential.
Enquiries are received directly by a principal. Conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion.