Start With the Family, Not the Shareholders’ Agreement

Family tension is not noise around the business. It is part of the business system. Most advisers meet a family business and see a company. There is a balance sheet, a shareholder register, a set of articles, and somewhere in a drawer, a will drafted at a different point in the family’s life. That is […]

Business Lasting Power of Attorney and Probate

Business owners should plan for the future with a business Lasting Power of Attorney and consideration of the probate situation in respect of their enterprise. A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is a document that gives legal authority to a nominated attorney to act on your behalf, should you ever be unable to manage your […]

Making a Lasting Power of Attorney for your business

Lasting Powers of Attorney offer huge benefits to individuals, but their advantages are often forgotten when it comes to businesses. A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows someone to appoint a trusted representative to act on their behalf once they lose the capacity to do so. This can be in respect of their property and […]

ADL’s 2020 two sentence insights

Capitalism and technology have made the world glocal. It has and is bringing people closer together like no other point in human history. For example, today, because of the online gig economy, a start-up in London can contract affordable skilled services in the Philippines, without which neither would be able to add value to their […]

February Market Commentary

Introduction Despite the claims of Brexit and the debate on triggering Article 50, it is impossible to start this commentary anywhere other than in Washington where, on January 20th, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. It is remarkably difficult to find a news outlet that has a neutral view […]

4 companies using Brexit to put up prices

Six months on from the Brexit result and there are many factors of the UK’s impending departure from the EU that remain clouded in mystery. What has become clear, however, is the impact the vote to leave has already had and will continue to have upon the price of products. A number of companies have […]

The Brexit Effect: Cutting the Living Wage.

You would have to have been living on another planet to have missed the UK’s biggest political news so far this year: Brexit. The vote to leave the EU was a shock to many in the City, and for the large part, the economy has remained stable although there have been times where the Pound […]