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Family and Owner-managed Businesses

Every 75 seconds a new business is launched in the UK, with over 85% of those businesses being family or owner-managed.


From setting up your own business to planning for your exit or succession, Family and Owner-managed Businesses come with their own set of challenges. What should be a straightforward issue or challenge can often be intertwined with family dynamics and tensions.

Appreciating these challenges, for many years our specialist team have been working with successful Family and Owner-managed Businesses, supporting and advising them on a range of both corporate and personal issues.

Understanding your needs
Key to your success is working collaboratively with advisors who can really get to grips with how your business works, helping it thrive now and for future generations.
Understanding your needs
Navigating the challenges
Getting the right advice from the right people at the right time. We are used to dealing with all manner of family dynamics, always seeking to strike a balance for everyone involved.
Navigating the challenges
Providing day-to-day support
We can be there for you when you want and as much or as little as you want to ease the administrative burden ensuring you can concentrate your efforts where they matter most. 
Providing day-to-day support

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Five tax planning considerations for business owners
Autumn Budget 2025 is coming, now’s the time for family business owners to act on five smart tax moves to protect wealth before the rules change.
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Maximising profits for business owners and their families
Ways to help business owners make the most of their hard-earned profits.
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Consultation response: Reforming IHT
The proposed inheritance tax reforms introduce significant complexity, risk, and cost for families, personal representatives, and businesses.
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Mind the (cash) gap!
Profit looks good on paper, but for family and owner-managed businesses, it’s cash flow that keeps the lights on and the business alive.
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Management accounts are critical for a family or owner-managed business
Management accounts give family and owner-managed businesses the financial clarity they need to make timely and confident decisions.
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Tax issues in a high interest environment
Businesses now have to take high interest rates into consideration in their cashflow and tax planning.
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Pension planning opportunities for family businesses
Simon Warne shares some useful tips on pension planning opportunities for family businesses.
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Protecting family wealth - Family business or family investment?
Focussing on a natural extension to the importance of business structure and succession planning can be a family investment company.
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Tax implications of selling a business
Maximise the tax benefits of the sale of your business
Woman smiling
Five tax planning considerations for business owners
Autumn Budget 2025 is coming, now’s the time for family business owners to act on five smart tax moves to protect wealth before the rules change.
lady in shop
Maximising profits for business owners and their families
Ways to help business owners make the most of their hard-earned profits.
Two ladies looking at desk with laptop
Consultation response: Reforming IHT
The proposed inheritance tax reforms introduce significant complexity, risk, and cost for families, personal representatives, and businesses.
woman at shop counter
Mind the (cash) gap!
Profit looks good on paper, but for family and owner-managed businesses, it’s cash flow that keeps the lights on and the business alive.
Two ladies looking at desk with laptop
Management accounts are critical for a family or owner-managed business
Management accounts give family and owner-managed businesses the financial clarity they need to make timely and confident decisions.
curved colourful building
Tax issues in a high interest environment
Businesses now have to take high interest rates into consideration in their cashflow and tax planning.
couple on beach with kite
Pension planning opportunities for family businesses
Simon Warne shares some useful tips on pension planning opportunities for family businesses.
father-and-son-on-a-pushbike
Protecting family wealth - Family business or family investment?
Focussing on a natural extension to the importance of business structure and succession planning can be a family investment company.
Man looking out of office window
Tax implications of selling a business
Maximise the tax benefits of the sale of your business

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Simon Warne
Simon Warne
Partner, Private ClientsKent