Overview

Our market leading private wealth lawyers seamlessly integrate top-quality corporate and private client services.

We work extensively with entrepreneurs at every stage of their personal and business journey.

We look after entrepreneurs and their businesses, whatever their legal needs and whichever sector they operate in.

From young ambitious entrepreneurs setting up their own business, to scale ups securing growth capital, and founders exploring options to exit, our corporate experts advise on all aspects of the business lifecycle, supported by specialists in areas including technology, data protection, incentives, employment, commercial and real estate.

We understand the personal elements behind a business and our private wealth team often advise founders on the wider family and wealth considerations of business ownership. This includes tax efficient structuring before and after an exit event, and planning what happens after a sale, be that philanthropy or making the most of new commercial opportunities.

Bringing us in early ensures your business and personal interests are protected and help to crystallise value after years of hard work.

Areas of Focus

  • Exit Strategies: We’re here to help you realise the value you’ve created. From sales to trade or to private equity, IPOs or MBOs, we help our clients with their own path to exit.
  • Private Wealth advice: We provide guidance on estate planning and succession trusts, and tax planning to secure your wealth for the long term after an exit event.

We are a dynamic, ambitious law firm and the leading choice for specialist advice for entrepreneurs, their businesses and families.

If you would like more information about how we look after entrepreneurs, build long term relationships and provide commercial and pragmatic advice, please get in touch with our team.

Experience


  • Advised the founding shareholders of Omlet, the fast-growing pet accessories brand, on the investment by Piper, a leading UK private equity firm specialising in investing in fast-growing consumer brands.

  • Advised the shareholders of Regency Purchasing Group on the sale to Foodbuy Europe Limited, which is part of Compass Group PLC.

  • Advised the founding shareholder of LexAble Limited and LexAble Services Limited, a leading provider of specialist education software with a focus on dyslexia and mental health, on the sale to Norwegian company Lingit.

  • Advised the founders of a high-growth renewables business on trust planning and the availability of business relief on their shares, including a clearance application to HMRC, ahead of a significant liquidity event.

  • Advised a longstanding founder client on implementing a family trust pre-sale, and negotiating the deal on behalf of the trustees with the purchaser.

  • Advised a med-tech entrepreneur on creating a family investment company post sale, to hold discretionary investment portfolios and rollover equity in a US LLC vehicle.

Meet the team
Dominic Davis

Dominic Davis Partner

  • Corporate M&A
  • Private Wealth
  • Entrepreneurs
Jim Aveline

Jim Aveline Partner

  • Private Client Services
  • Family Offices and Family Businesses
  • Food and Farming
Emma Heelis-Adams

Emma Heelis-Adams Partner

  • Private Client Services
  • International Tax
  • HNW and UHNW Individuals
Guy Broadfield

Guy Broadfield Senior Associate

  • Private Wealth
  • Entrepreneurs
  • HNW and UHNW Individuals
Julie Book

Julie Book Director

  • Corporate M&A
  • Private Wealth
  • Entrepreneurs
Douglas James-Streatfield

Douglas Streatfeild-James Senior Associate

  • Corporate M&A
  • Family Business
  • Private Wealth

What others say...

Dominic and the team at Burges Salmon were excellent throughout the process. There were complexities to the deal, because of the existing structure and how we plan to operate the business moving forward. The Burges Salmon team dissected every element of the process and ensured that we were protected, but more importantly that the business has the ability to thrive alongside working with the Foodbuy team in the future. I could not recommend Burges Salmon and their team highly enough for their integrity, knowledge and work ethic.

Alex Demetriou, founder and managing director of RPG

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