Family business owners are amongst the most resilient and resourceful. However extraordinary businesses throw up extraordinary challenges. Often legal issues that are worrying family business owners can be sorted out with one phone call to the right professional. Sometimes failure to make that call means that a problem is much harder to solve in the future. But clients need to know who to call and are concerned about a lawyer's costs meter ticking away.

Gateway is a support package tailored around the needs of the family business. It offers:

• a solicitor in the family business team to act as your key Gateway contact
• an initial fact finding meeting with your key Gateway contact to

- gain an overview of your business
- gain an understanding of who the key family and non-family stakeholders are
- develop an insight into the family, business and legal issues that you might be facing over the next 12 months

• access to family business specialists to advise on family and ownership issues such as:

- employment of family members
- succession plans
- family ownership disputes

• preliminary advice on all legal questions you may need to answer in running a family business
• access to the range of specialists working within a large corporate law firm
• a fixed annual fee of £1000 plus VAT.

If you want to know more about Gateway, please contact Nicholas Smith on 0117 314 5470 for more information.