Most restaurants are built by partners. Many of those partnerships end badly. A partner stops showing up. A chef claims the concept is his. An investor wants to run the kitchen. The books stop matching the bank statements. By the time owners call a lawyer, the business is often losing value every week the dispute continues.
Business divorce is the center of Andreas’s practice. He represents owners in deadlocks, buyouts, breaches of fiduciary duty, minority shareholder claims, partner expulsions, and judicial dissolution, including emergency relief when a partner is taking company funds. The objective in each matter is the same: protect the client’s interest and, where possible, keep the restaurant operating while the dispute is resolved.
The guides and case studies below show how these disputes start and how they end.
