Succession: Family offices aim to skirt the pitfalls of the TV drama

HBO’s hit show Succession is the story of the wildly dysfunctional and wealthy Roy family whose media empire —Waystar Royco —falls into disarray when its patriarch Logan Roy is struck down by a stroke without having left a clear succession plan. With no plan in place, Logan Roy’s children quickly become embroiled in a no-holds-barred squabble of Shakespearian proportions for control over Waystar Royco. The spat eventually boils over into the public realm damaging both the reputati…