Family Business

Boodle Hatfield has been a long-term strategic advisor to family businesses for generations, guiding families and their businesses to help achieve their commercial objectives. We provide a well-established private client legal practice serving some of the largest family businesses in the UK and internationally.

We are able to blend our private client advice seamlessly with our corporate and dispute expertise to help family businesses navigate the evolving private capital landscape.

With regulation around the world increasing for privately-owned businesses, corporate governance is now being balanced with the passion that drives a successful family business. Combined with an increased focus on ESG endeavours – particularly around philanthropy, and the day-to-day running of the business and managing the shareholder’s needs – a holistic approach across the family and the business is critical. Forward planning, innovative thinking and risk mitigation all executed efficiently is key.

Whether you are looking at how marriage and divorce could affect the family business, considering bringing in non-family senior executives or want to restructure your business alongside other family assets we are able to help.

Our family business group provides an all-encompassing legal service to family businesses and their shareholders, with a specific focus on legacy and succession. We specialise in providing joined up advice to both the shareholder and the business with a targeted focus on the needs of the family. We are proud of our ability to be the long-term strategic advisory partners for our clients, really understanding both their family and commercial objectives.