Commercial disputes involving financial matters have a particular quality. The facts of what happened are often clear enough. What the parties disagree about is what those facts were worth, or what they cost, or what a reasonable participant in the relevant market would have known or done. These are financial questions. And the answer to them, in a court or tribunal, depends almost entirely on the quality and credibility of the expert who provides it.

The financial questions in a family business transition are genuinely solvable. Structure the ownership correctly. Agree on a fair price, or a fair mechanism if no price is being paid. Sort the tax position. Appoint the right advisers. These things take time and they require careful thinking, but they have answers. There are frameworks. There are precedents. There is a path through.