Family business consulting

How we can help

We can help your business address concerns and priorities from all parties, including business owner managers, family or trustee shareholders and non-family managers, then work with the business to put plans in place.

We can be involved as much or as little as you like – but we’ll always tailor our approach to give personal service focused on achieving your goals and reaching new financial heights. We can even come along to family and board meetings. So you can get on with what you do best – running your business.

Our experience

Our previous work in this area includes:

• helping a family business avoid conflict by creating a family council to oversee business operations. We negotiated and drafted the terms of a family charter to give them a structure for decision-making.
• helping a client protect his family business before non-family members exercised their options, including bespoke articles of association, shareholders’ agreements and new employment contracts
• putting arrangements in place to manage a business if the shareholder was to die, while making sure their family would still benefit from the full value of the shares
• giving advice on the structure of a group of family companies to make sure shareholdings qualified for 100% business property relief for inheritance tax purposes

Our lawyers

Our team of expert lawyers are armed with the latest know-how in how to help family businesses achieve long-term goals and put structures in place for future generations.

Who do we work with?

Some of our clients include:

• the owners of a manufacturing business with global operations
• a first-generation tech entrepreneur in the early stages of creating dynastic family wealth
• a UK-resident non-domiciled family with very large property investment holdings