Investors and entrepreneurs always require flexible and commercial advice, and for some, learning from many different markets and geographies gives them additional advantage and opportunity.
With fast moving growth opportunities harder to find and secure, the challenges of building businesses and investing in them throw out different needs and demands. Many are watching their portfolios and liquidity situations, whilst dealing with family pressures and increased financial demands, as well as the welfare of employees and commercial relationships. This includes the pressures around decisions to make extended family loans or not.
For some business families, the current crisis has raised issues of succession, and the opportunities of transferring assets whilst valuations are low. For others, the situation has meant that the focus is on the future - the plans for the business and the family portfolios and the need for different decision makers. Here, you can put in place a family charter to explain how you wish the family to respond in the future, for example what types of investment and acquisitions you expect them to make, be it philanthropic or purely commercial in their nature; right through to how you wish the family to communicate and behave following any loss of capacity. We can help with all of this.
We are here also to support you with your capital, financing and fund raising plans as well as any recovery issues you might have, like unexpected investment losses, or insurance claims or rare situations like loans against art or other collectable assets – if you have to raise funds against your investments and assets.
For more information about the specific Private Client legal services we provide to businesses, please visit the relevant pages below.
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Our thinking
Tristram van Lawick
The Sunday Times quotes Tristram van Lawick on investment into country estates
“For overseas buyers the security of the UK property market is seen as a safe investment compared with other parts of the world"
Nicola Saccardo
Charles Russell Speechlys welcomes Partner Nicola Saccardo to the Firm’s London office
Charles Russell Speechlys welcomes Partner Nicola Saccardo
Felicity Chapman
Separating Spouses and Civil Partners to Benefit from Changes to Capital Gains Tax Rules
Piers Master
Register of Overseas Entities: What are the deadlines for trust structures holding UK real estate?
The ROE is intended to launch on 1 August 2022 - read more about the deadlines trust structures holding UK real estate will be facing
Jil Birnbaum
Was Time of essence to buy a Ferrari?
Lisa Wong
Family Law and Criminal Law
Family law and criminal law, never the twain shall meet? Alas they do meet
Matt Foster
The inflation trap: divorcees, beware!
Sophie Hart
Inheritance tax impact in cross-border estates: leaving your Swiss or UK property to your heirs
We take a look at the inheritance tax rules activated on the passing of Swiss or UK real estate to heirs on death.
Record number of leading individuals for Charles Russell Speechlys in Chambers HNW 2022
Read about Charles Russell Speechlys' rankings in Chambers High Net Worth 2022
Verity Heath
Protecting a Good Name: Statutory Inquiry into The Captain Tom Foundation
Tamara Bell
Surprise deregulation of New York's auction market: what, why and what next?
Henry Fea
Landed Estates and Heritage Property webinar series
Join our four-part webinar series which delves into all aspects of managing landed estates.
Dominic Lawrance
The statutory residence test: an exceptionally useful case on ‘exceptional circumstances’
Read more about the Taxpayer v HMRC judgment on the statutory residence test
Piers Master
Charles Russell Speechlys awarded Private Client Law Firm by eprivateclient
Charles Russell Speechlys awarded Private Client Law Firm by eprivateclient
Guy Bud
Hugh Gunson and Guy Bud write for the Tax Journal on the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in Hoey
Hoey: you’d better PAYE up
Catrin Harrison
Dominic Lawrance and Catrin Harrison write for Tax Journal on the statutory residence test
The statutory residence test: an exceptionally useful case on ‘exceptional circumstances’
Hugh Gunson
Hoey: you’d better PAYE up
Hugh Gunson and Guy Bud discuss the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in Hoey, and the implications this has on PAYE and the TOAA regime.
Julia Cox
Mind your business: Safeguarding your business against loss of mental capacity
Practical considerations to safeguard your business against loss of mental capacity.
Jack Carter
Jack Carter writes for eprivateclient on the registration requirements for trust structures holding UK real estate
Trust structures holding UK real estate: Reporting requirements under the Register of Overseas Entities
Sarah Anticoni
FT Wealth quotes Sarah Anticoni on forum shopping
"Being the first to file for divorce is not a foolproof way of securing an English hearing"