Burns & Levinson is a full-service, Boston-based law firm that leverages talent from across multiple practices – and collaborates with clients’ other advisors – to provide a full spectrum of services and meet every need. Since its founding in 1960, the firm has earned a stellar reputation for its multidisciplinary team approach built on extensive experience representing founder and family-owned businesses. Burns & Levinson is a sponsor of the FFI New England Chapter, and FFI members include Brian D. Bixby, Christine Fletcher, David Raymon, and Lorraine Stark.

From their offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the firm of Morgan Lewis works with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups. FFI members are John Kober, Jason Ray, and Timothy Rupp.

Prairie Family Business Association (PFBA) is an outreach center of the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota that provides family businesses with the tools to thrive through generations. PFBA helps family businesses to succeed by providing high quality educational content, by being professional, by being focused, by building connections, and by going above and beyond for the needs of its families. FFI members are Addie Graham-Kramer of The Event Company; Larry D. Hause, FFI Fellow; Stephanie Larscheid, PFBA Executive Director; Sandra McNeely, FFI board member and treasurer; Alex Patnaud, PFBA Office Manager; and Rebecca Zabel, PFBA Business Development Manager.

PwC helps family businesses manage ownership and growth at every stage, by providing support with family governance, succession planning and business continuity, next generation education and transition, private wealth management and family office, philanthropy, values and purpose, and more. Serving businesses at various points in their journey to success, PwC provides insights and solutions to stay fit for growth and move forward at the right pace. PwC’s Family Business Survey is one of the most authoritative reports of its kind.

More than 100 PwC family business experts worldwide are FFI members. Recent graduates of the GEN certificate program include Andrea Baars (ACFBA/ACFWA), Andrea Benkenstein (CFBA/CFWA), Niels H.C. Govers (CFBA/CFWA), and Johannes Rettig (ACFBA/ACFWA). Francesca Ambrosini, FFI Fellow, is on the 2021 UK/Europe Regional Advisory Committee for FFI. Alexander Koeverle-Schmid and Clare Stirzaker will present at the 2021 FFI Global Conference. Peter Englisch, CFBA/CFWA, will present at the 2021 FFI Global Conference, and he is a member of the FFI board of directors.

Tharawat Magazine, for family businesses and entrepreneurs, is based in Switzerland and publishes content for business owners who want to make their enterprises last for generations. Tharawat Magazine has featured hundreds of family businesses from around the world and published more than 1100 articles over the past 13 years. FFI members are Farida El Agamy, Hischam El Agamy, Ramia El Agamy, and Shereen El Agamy.

The El Agamy Family—parents Hisham and Antoinette, and their three daughters, Farida, Ramia, and Shereen—received the 2018 FFI International Award for their commitment to the family business field globally through their magazine and the Tharawat Family Business Forum.

Listen to the Tharawat Magazine’s podcast, The Family Business Voice.

TriBridge Partners, LLC helps protect the assets of its clients by bridging the exposure gaps to create continuity through the expertise of the firm’s associates in combination with strategies and solutions. The firm assists its family business clients with continuity planning, multi-generational transitions, and compensation and benefits. FFI members are Jason Ditto, Jay Menton, FFI Fellow David M. Morris, John C. Morris, and Kim Natovitz.

The Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU) is a center for experienced and young researchers, and whose mission is to research the specific challenges that family businesses face, to gain a deeper understanding of them, and to feed this understanding back into practice. They regularly organize intensive discussion sessions that cover themes such as leadership roles, succession, conflicts, crisis management, shareholder identity, sustainability, and mechanisms of family management. The WIFU research approach combines quantitative and qualitative research with a clear link to practice. The work of the WIFU is supported by the WIFU Foundation, a group of 75 family businesses from the German-speaking world (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). FFI members include Marcel Hülsbeck, Ruth Orenstrat, Tom Rüsen, and Ole Schachtsiek.