Business owners

Our specialist lawyers draw on expertise from our wide range of practice areas to ensure you get joined-up advice that suits your specific circumstances.

Some examples of our experience include:

• Helping a client to introduce essential protection for his family business prior to the exercise of options by non-family members, including bespoke articles of association, shareholders' agreements and new employment contracts.
• Assisting a client to formulate his plans to leave control of his £50million turnover business to his employees while retaining an income stream for family members.
• Working alongside a client's other advisers to assist with the sale of a controlling interest in their company, providing personal tax advice both pre- and post- sale and ensuring family interests were not forgotten while achieving commercial objectives.
• Working with clients to put in place arrangements to manage the business in the event of a shareholder's death, while ensuring the deceased shareholder's family receive full value for the shares.
• Providing advice on the structure of a family group of companies to ensure shareholdings retain 100% business property relief for inheritance tax purposes.

We have experience working with wealthy business owners across a range of key sectors. Our clients include:

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