Succession Planning

Succession planning advice to secure your business future.

Business succession planning can be a complex legal and commercial process but it is essential to be proactive to ensure a smooth transfer of leadership and ownership. Proper planning can avoid leadership vacuums, family conflicts, employee and shareholder uncertainty, and a decrease in business value. We are here to help you ensure a smooth transfer of your business when the time comes.

Our Expertise

At BCR, our team helps business owners develop comprehensive succession plans to protect the future of their business. We act for a lot of family businesses and high-net-worth individuals with corporate asset-holding and income generating structures. We also act for businesses and individuals involved in any succession plans.

We work with our clients to develop the best means of transferring ownership for them. Whether that is by the transfer of shares, the sale of assets, or the migration of the business into a new structure, we have the expertise to provide the right advice and prepare the necessary legal documents. Our wider team of legal experts can assist with any employment, tax, or regulatory issues.


Our Approach

No two businesses are the same. We have a wealth of experience in identifying your essential goals, placing those in the wider commercial (and sometimes family) context, and helping you to achieve them. Our focus is always on achieving our clients’ aims and protecting their interests. We do this by understanding the issues and providing clear, objective, and practical legal advice and support to enable our clients to make the decisions that are right for them and their businesses.


Our Values in Action

Excellence: We provide expert, tailored, advice of the highest standard to enable clients to make the best possible decisions for them and their businesses.

Delivery: We deliver clear, practical legal solutions with responsiveness, precision, and no surprises.

Respect: We listen, understand, and tailor our advice to each organisation’s unique needs.

Elegance: We simplify complexity with clarity, professionalism, and refined legal execution.

Why BCR Law

We are committed to providing our clients with the best possible legal advice and support. We are a friendly and approachable team dedicated to giving clear, objective, commercially sensible advice without legal jargon, so that our clients know exactly where they stand and what their options are and can make the best decisions for them and their businesses. We are a full-service law and professional services provider and can draw on the specialist experience of other lawyers and professional services providers, such as our tax team, meaning you get all the advice you need when you need it.

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