The Family Business Adviser

The Family Business Adviser is a joint marketing initiative between nationally-renowned Chartered Accountants Howard Hackney LLP and Solicitors O’Connors LLP. Howard Hackney LLP specialises in advising family businesses on financial and strategic matters and O’Connors LLP specialises in advising family businesses on corporate and commercial legal matters. The two firms are collaborating to provide an holistic service to the family business, the family itself and the shareholders.

Family values and business rules often conflict, resulting in greater tensions than might exist in an equivalent non-family business. And yet, there is a genetic glue that holds family businesses together, even through the toughest of economic conditions.

The Family Business Adviser combines legal, financial and strategic expertise to deliver holistic solutions to the conflicts and issues that arise in family businesses and to assist families in achieving their ambitions. Support can be given in relation to a wide range of issues including:

• Resolving shareholder and board disputes;
• Shareholder and management succession planning;
• Fundraising;
• Mergers, acquisitions, sales and joint ventures.

Legal 500 describes O’Connors LLP as ‘very well versed across all aspects of corporate and commercial law’ providing a ‘terrific’ service to family-owned businesses and with an ‘ability to think outside the box’.

Howard Hackney LLP is creative and imaginative and considers assignments ‘in the round’ (i.e. company, management, shareholders and individuals) from the perspective of corporate finance, tax, financial planning, strategic planning, business advice and personal aspiration to help their clients achieve their objectives.

To discover how The Family Business Adviser could benefit your business, please contact Howard Hackney on 07968 059 363 or email howard.hackney@howardhackney.co.uk.