Owner managed business solicitors

As an owner managed business, we are able to anticipate and understand the full range of issues faced by business owners and offer comprehensive solutions.

Owner managed businesses are a key part of the UK economy and a highly valued component of our own client base.

We are an OMB ourselves and understand the issues that business owners face. We recognise the particular needs of the Owner Managed Business sector for pragmatic advice that respects the separate but often linked needs of individual business owners and those of their businesses.

Our clients range from tech start-ups to high growth entrepreneur-driven companies and mature family businesses that have been through generational ownership change.

Why choose our owner managed business solicitors?

We believe that all clients deserve a service that is technically excellent, commercial, pragmatic and delivered in jargon-free style.

Our commercial and private client lawyers work as one team to provide a service that brings our specialisms together to offer advice and solutions that fully address your concerns. As a full-service law firm, we are able to anticipate and understand the full range of issues faced by business owners and offer comprehensive solutions.

Services offered by our owner managed businesses solicitors

We advise business owners and those funders and professionals that support them on:

Startups (funding, shareholders' agreements, service agreement, mentoring owners)
Attracting and retaining staff (HR advice, share schemes and bonus arrangements)
Managing supply chains (conditions of sale, long-term supply contracts, procurement advice, agency and distribution arrangements, joint ventures and export sales)
Equity investments and funding (from venture capital houses, banks, grant agencies) and getting a business ready for investment
Regulatory compliance (health and safety, environmental, data protection etc.)
Tax efficient group structures and personal ownership models
Wealth management and will and estate planning
Business and share purchases
Business succession planning
- Sales to co-owners and advice regarding cross option life insurance arrangements.
- In single family companies, will the family be willing and able to take the business on?
- Drafting Family Charters and creating Family Investment Company structures.
- Management buyouts where family succession is not an option
- Trade sale and exits to VC
Disputes and litigation (commercial disputes, cyber, debt recovery, defamation and reputation management)

Whilst we are a national firm, we have strong commercial and private client teams in all our locations able to bring their local knowledge and relationships to bear in support of your business needs and aspirations.

We support business owners not just through the way in which we deliver our services but also:

By our commercially sensitive approach to pricing, particularly for startups and early-stage growth companies
In the packaging of fixed-price services such as our HR Rely service and our debt recovery service
Through the management support, such as personal mentoring to individual owners and collective boardroom training on core regulatory and risk and compliance issues
In the relationships we help to foster on behalf of our clients with potential customers, suppliers, advisors and funders

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Accolades

Weightmans was always there throughout the process. The service was excellent, I cannot praise it any higher.
Chambers and Partners 2023
I am a startup entrepreneur with a limited budget, but the service I’ve received from the solicitors I’ve worked with makes me feel like I’m punching above my weight in terms of the quality of work they produce. I feel secure in the work they’ve done for me, and in the knowledge that whenever my solicitor needs to query something with someone more senior, they can, and they will come back to me on it quickly.
Legal 500 2021
A client praises the team for its provision of “high-quality and value-for-money service.
Chambers and Partners 2021

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Marc Allison

Partner

Email Marc +44 (0)345 073 9900

About Marc:

In addition to being segment head, Marc also heads up our franchising team, having completed almost 100 franchise-related M&A deals over the last five years. In addition to working for a national law firm, Marc also spent over four years working in-house for a listed company.

Marc’s main clients are owner-managed businesses, however, he also works for a number of larger businesses and PLCs.

With a strong emphasis on building solid relationships with clients, Marc’s focus is on providing specialist value-added advice, in an efficient and cost-effective manner, with regular and clear communications with clients.

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