Young entrepreneurs made just £556m from business sales out of £28.9bn Boodle Hatfield, a leading private wealth law firm, says that young entrepreneurs* accounted for just 2% of value of all UK businesses sold in past year**. These entrepreneurs made just £556m in profits out of £28.9bn made in total by... read more
How employee ownership trusts work and what are the benefits? As we have seen an increase in the number of employee ownership trusts in the past years, Charlie Hewlett, Hugo Brown and Tom Lethaby at RVE Corporate Finance, clarify what they are and point out the fors and againsts. One attractive fe... read more
Transfer of ownership to employees increased 200% from 2019 to 2021 According to figures obtained from HMRC, the number of businesses transferring ownership to employees through Employee Ownership Trusts saw a sharp rise from 127 in 2019 to 384 in 2021. The number of new Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)... read more
Where to next for crypto currency? Those crypto currencies which have managed to hang on despite the recent market meltdown and lack of government support have demonstrated their resilience in a way that many banks might have struggled to do. A healthy division of opinio... read more
Leasing your first office – what do you need to know? Things are going well and your business is growing. You are now considering leasing your first office. What potential costs do you need to factor into your decision? Rent / Service Charge / Insurance  The obvious cost is rent, i... read more
Gulf in share option grants eclipses traditional gender pay gap, study finds A study * by Boodle Hatfield, a leading law firm, suggests that twice as many men as women are granted options in company shares. An analysis of 33,400 grants of tax advantaged share options by gender show that 69% are to men and 31% ar... read more
Incentive schemes – good for individuals, less so for teams At Boodle Hatfield we often help clients introduce incentive schemes for their employees (and indeed I am implementing one today).  Such schemes are known to improve performance and we have seen them being phenomenally successful f... read more
Commercial Contracts – Six questions to ask yourself when limiting liability At Boodle Hatfield we deal with a whole range of commercial contracts. Regardless of whether it’s a contract for the sale of furniture or the supply of software, however, the most crucial clauses are often those where the parties attempt... read more
How crypto is transforming the real estate market I suspect I am not the only one who is highly suspicious of crypto and is keeping my hard earned savings far away from Bitcoin, Dogecoin and NFTs. One sector where even I can see crypto creating a lot of interesting opportunities, howev... read more
Are family offices the new rival for funding start-ups? When people think about who funds a start-up until recently, that thought would have often been '"Venture Capitalists". We are seeing an increasing interest in VC style investments from amongst groups like family offices that would have hi... read more

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