BMC Associates help business partners and owners of family and non-family businesses deal with conflict and build collaboration.

The Partnership Charter
Mediation
Business Succession Plans
Collaborative Estate Planning
Other Services

The Partnership Charter
Start partnerships out on a solid foundation of comprehensive agreements.
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Mediation
Resolve conflicts among business owners and principals through facilitated negotiations.
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Business Succession Plans
Successfully transferring leadership in business and family to the next generation.
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Collaborative Estate Planning
Families planning together to preserve and build a legacy.
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Other Services
Enhance productivity, strengthen relationships and enhance teamwork.
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The Partnership charter

Millions of people co-own closely held companies, family businesses, and business partnerships, but establishing them and keeping them together is never easy. Here, finally, is the guide they have been waiting for.... Read More

Welcome to BMC Associates

BMC Associates helps business partners, owners of family businesses, and principals of other organizations deal with conflict and build collaboration. BMC’s interdisciplinary and non-adversarial approach helps strengthen working teams’ overall business and interpersonal performance.

BMC’s services include:

Mediation, a process that resolves conflicts through facilitated negotiations.
The Partnership Charter, an innovative, preventative tool for partners and partners-to-be who want a structured approach to negotiating the many issues that tend to cause difficulties and conflicts among partners.
Business Succession Plans, an integrated approach to transferring family business leadership and ownership.
Collaborative Estate Planning, a way for families to address the many sensitive issues involved in transferring assets such as vacation properties from one generation to the next.
Other Services that meet the planning and organizational development needs of clients are offered in conjunction with the services described above.

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Recent News & Updates

So What Is a Business Partner?

June 14, 2013

Posting by Stewart Christ, MBA, Principal at BMC Associates

In business and personal life I often hear the term “partner.” I thought I would share some observations about the various meanings and usage of this term in a business context. This is important because partner relationships are indeed demanding and, in spite of this fact, companies built by business partners are often more successful. Read More

Celebration of Young Presidents’ Organization’s “Best of the Best” Education Award

April 3, 2013

Stewart Christ is congratulated by Chuck Davis, 2012-2013
International Chairman of YPO

BMC is pleased to announce that the Washington DC & Baltimore Chapter of WPO, YPO’s graduate group, was awarded the WPO Best Large Chapter Education award for their program entitled “Come Together.” BMC is proud to have had a small hand in making it successful!

BMC Principal Stewart Christ was the WPO Education Chair during this award-winning year. Stewart designed the business track event “Healthy Business Partners & Partnerships” with Dr. David Gage, the co-founder of BMC Associates. Read More

Partners and Equity: Introducing a Comprehensive Method for Discussing the Division of Ownership

March 12, 2013

Posting by Ed Kopf, Ph.D., Principal at BMC Associates

“Can you help us agree on our equity split? We’ve hit a brick wall trying to work that out.” As a mediator and consultant serving business partners and family business owners, this is a question – almost a plea – that I often hear. Entrepreneurs (fully confident in their business abilities and vision as they start a new venture or revamp an existing one) are suddenly caught up short when they have to negotiate with each other over ownership.

Business Partners & Fiduciary Obligations

February 15, 2013

Posting by Stewart Christ, MBA, Principal at BMC Associates

Not surprisingly, money lies at the heart of many of the business partner conflicts that arrive on BMC Associates’ doorstep. Some of those conflicts are simply about who deserves how much of the profits. Others are more complicated and relate to the fiduciary obligations of the partners. Many partners are unaware of their fiduciary obligations.