Private Client
Succession planning for business owners
April 21st
Virtual Seminar
Succession planning for business owners: How to maximise and monetise your life’s work
April 21st
2 - 5pm
Speakers: Alan Eccles and guests
Virtual Seminar
A private or family business is a hugely important asset as well as being truly ‘part of the family'. Therefore, it is essential that the business, and its value, must be protected and maximised. This seminar will look at key points that you should be aware of to help families and their businesses protect family wealth. That might be to realise the value or to carefully and securely pass ownership and management across generations – be that during life or on death
Topics covered will include:
The event begins at 2pm. Delegate registration is open from 1:30pm.
Alan's work covers three main areas: charities, private client and parliamentary matters.
Alan's private client work covers estate planning including wills, executries, trusts and inheritance tax. He is the author of the Scotland chapter in the textbook International Succession. As part of his private client advice Alan often advises on incapacity law (powers of attorney, court appointed guardianship and other methods of managing the affairs of those less able to do so). This has involved acting in some of the leading Sottish cases on incapacity law and estate and succession planning. A regular commentator on incapacity law matters, Alan's written work has been referred to in judicial decision making. Of Alan's private client work, the Legal 500 notes that he "conveys complicated legal concepts with clarity and humour".
He was previously a member of the legal staff at the Scottish Law Commission and currently lectures at the University of Strathclyde in property, trusts and charities. Alan has also tutored private client law at the University of Glasgow.
Alan was a member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland from 2007 to 2009 and the Society's Education and Training Committee from 2007 to 2012. He is currently a member of the Society's Charity Law and Mental Health and Disability Law Committees.
