How do I keep cap tables, compensation plans, and company financials from becoming public exhibits?

You cannot hide assets, but you can keep sensitive business information from becoming a public sideshow. Divorce filings are generally public. The tools that work are protective orders, sealing where the law allows, attorneys’-eyes-only designations, and moving valuation into mediation so the cap table never sits on the clerk’s website.

I routinely seek agreed protective orders covering compensation plans, customer lists, valuations, and tax returns. Experts review the material under confidentiality. Temporary orders can require sworn inventories without attaching every K-1 to a public pleading.

For executives and owners we also think about who learns what, and when. A partner, board, or lender does not need to hear about your case from a process server or a courthouse search. Where the case must be litigated, we file what the rules require and put the detail in restricted exhibits.

None of this is a license to under-disclose. Incomplete inventories destroy credibility and can support fee-shifting. The professional approach is full disclosure to the other side under a tight protective order, and as little as possible in the public jacket. Ask for that structure at the start of the case, not after a competitor has already found the file. Call 469-296-8200.