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Entrepreneurs

When your wealth is a business you built.

For founders and owners, wealth is real but concentrated, illiquid and bound up with identity. We help you plan around it, through growth, a transaction, and everything after.

The challenge

One asset, doing all the work.

The entrepreneur's balance sheet is unlike any other. Most of the wealth sits in a single, illiquid asset, the business, and most of the risk sits there too. Personal and corporate finances are entangled, and the founder's attention is, rightly, on the company rather than the portfolio.

Our role is to bring order and diversification to that picture without distracting you from building. We plan around the concentration while the business grows, prepare you long before any transaction, and help turn a single great asset into durable, diversified wealth once it is realised.

Concentrated
Most wealth held in a single, illiquid business
Before
Planning that begins long before any sale
During
Managing a transaction and its proceeds with care
After
Turning one asset into a lasting, diversified legacy
From building to legacy.

The journey

We meet founders at every stage.

01

While you build

Personal planning around a concentrated position: liquidity, protection and structure that support the business rather than compete with it.

02

As you transact

Preparing for a sale or funding event well in advance, so that tax, structure and the plan for the proceeds are ready before the deal closes.

03

After the event

Turning a single liquidity event into a diversified, enduring portfolio, and preparing the next generation to steward it.

Preparing for a liquidity event

The work that pays off is done early.

01

Structure

We put the right ownership and personal structures in place, ideally years before a transaction.

02

Plan the proceeds

We agree, in advance, what the capital is for, so decisions are made calmly rather than under pressure.

03

Execute

Around the event, we coordinate with your advisers on tax, liquidity and timing.

04

Deploy

Afterwards, we put the capital to work patiently, into a portfolio built for the long term.

How we help

Built for the founder's situation.

01

Diversification, sensitively

We reduce concentration risk over time and with your buy-in, never forcing a sale of what you have built.

02

One coordinated team

We work alongside your lawyers, accountants and bankers, so the whole picture is managed as one.

03

Access after liquidity

The full institutional platform, private markets included, becomes available once capital is realised.

04

The next generation

We help prepare heirs to understand and steward wealth that arrived suddenly and substantially.

In practice

They started working with us two years before the sale, not two weeks after. By the time it closed, every decision that mattered had already been made calmly.
Founder of a manufacturing business
Client since 2019

Questions

What clients ask us first.

As early as possible, ideally years before a transaction. The most valuable structuring, tax and personal planning takes time to put in place and cannot be done well in the weeks around a deal. Founders who engage early keep far more options open.
No. Reducing concentration is usually wise over time, but it is your decision and your timing. Our job is to show you the risk clearly and to act on your wishes, not to pressure you into parting with what you have built.
Yes, and we prefer to. We coordinate with your lawyers, accountants and investment bankers so that your personal and corporate planning move together, especially around a transaction.

For founders and owners

Plan early, decide calmly.

Speak with us about the wealth still held in your business, and the future you intend it to fund.