Family Business

• Employing the Family
• Family Business Charters – Binding the Family Together
• PG holds its first Family Business Forum
• Governing the family. Governing the business
• Family Business - a short guide
• One Family Business - Two succession challenges article

Family businesses face challenges which are not necessarily faced by other businesses. We have acted for family businesses for many years and understand those challenges and what is required to meet them.

There are a number of specific areas, in particular, where we can provide advice and support to owners of the business. These include: -

• Choosing the best legal structure for a family business;
• Planning and managing ownership and management succession;
• Putting in place the right governance structure for the business;
• Putting together a shareholders’ agreement and/or a family charter;
• Putting shares in the family business in trust;
• Reorganising or reconstructing the business;
• Extracting wealth from the business; and
• Protecting the business against the impact of divorce.

If you would like to discuss any issues affecting your family business, please speak to the Partner with whom you normally deal or alternatively contact Andrew Drake, Jeremy Curtis or John Goodchild.