Veale Wasbrough Vizards has a long tradition of advising family businesses, having acted for family run businesses for two decades.

Our Client list is wide and includes entrepreneurs as well as individuals and families with long established businesses. Their interests span property development, manufacturing, banking, investment management, and agriculture.

Issues such as succession, the transfer of corporate ownership, dividing the assets fairly, the family constitution and mitigation of Inheritance Tax all fall within out remit.

One key issue affecting the majority of family businesses is succession - who will take over the business when the current generation retire or die? What exit strategy do the current family shareholders have in place?

Our experience, supported by sector research, suggests that the vast majority of owner managers have no clear idea how they will exit from their businesses. 

A number of our family business team are members of the Association of Family Business Advisors and we are closely associated with the International Centre for Families in Business.

Working in conjunction with members of the Private Client team, we can advise you on a broad range of corporate matters, including the re-organisation of shares between family members and family trusts, shareholder agreements and disputes.