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Business Families and Family Businesses

Business Families and Family Businesses

Simon Rylatt | Boodle Hatfield

(2018)

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Abstract

The resilience of family businesses has been evident from their success over centuries and across continents. It remains common for practitioners to advise families whose principal source of wealth is or has been a successful family enterprise, and to provide guidance on the specific and complex relationships and issues that arise in this context. This new edition, edited by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), features chapters by leading practitioners in the field, including the Family Firm Institute, Schroders, Boodle Hatfield and SandAire, Kleinwort Hambros, Dixon Wilson and Rathbones. The book considers what makes business families and family businesses unique, and examines the issues that advisers are often called upon to consider and address when assisting them. It helps practitioners to deepen their understanding of how families operate, and to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to advise on such complex areas as conflicts between working and non-working family members, ownership structure, succession, wealth management, governance and meeting a family’s philanthropic objectives. The guide provides a comprehensive handbook for all practitioners who advise business families, including lawyers, accountants, financial advisers and wider family business advisers

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover\r cover
Title\r 1
Copyright 2
Table of contents 3
About STEP 5
Foreword 7
Family businesses and business families 9
Roles, relationships and responsibilities 21
Understanding the business family 33
Building a family business advisory team 45
Philanthropy and private charitable foundation readiness 55
Establishing the family business 71
Structuring the family business 87
Preparing for transfer of ownership 101
Rewarding and incentivising non-family directors and employees 119
Succession planning 131
Entrepreneurs within the family: encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation 149
The challenge of family wealth 161
Governance and management 177
Extracting wealth from the family business 189
Selling the family business 207
Family business: dealing with conflict 225
Managing succession,managing wealth 247
Protecting ‘family wealth’ –\rthe changing landscape 265
Tax and corporate governance for family companies 273
Sophisticated reputation management for families and their businesses 283
Social and ethical investing 295
About the authors 309