The structure is the strategy, written down.

Most structures are inherited rather than designed — set up when the business was small, outgrown years ago, and finally examined only when a transaction or a dispute forces the question. We prefer to examine them first.

The engagement

Structure review and design

A commercial assessment of how the business, its assets and its ownership are currently arranged — and the design of a structure that fits where the business is going: growth, new owners, investment, succession or sale.

Restructures

Planning and coordinating the move from the structure you have to the structure you need — sequenced so the business keeps trading and the transaction consequences are understood before anything is signed.

Asset protection

Sensible separation of trading risk from accumulated value — premises, plant, intellectual property and investment assets held in the right places for the right reasons.

Shareholder arrangements

The commercial design of how owners come in, get along and exit: contributions, decision rights, deadlock, dividends, valuation on exit, and what happens when circumstances change. The terms are commercial decisions; we help you make them deliberately.

Governance

Boards, advisory boards and owner forums that actually work — the right people, a real agenda, and decision rights that match the ownership.

Designed commercially, documented properly

Structure work sits at the junction of commerce, law and tax. Our role is the commercial design; the legal documentation and formal tax advice are provided by your lawyers and tax advisers — including Daniel Jude Lawyers where you choose to engage them, which remains your choice. In our experience the best structures come from exactly this division of labour: designed commercially, documented properly.

Well suited to

Businesses that have outgrown their original structure; owners admitting new shareholders or investors; families separating trading businesses from accumulated assets; any business heading toward the transactions described elsewhere on this site — because a clean structure is the first thing every one of them requires.

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