Organize your assets
Entrepreneurs build up private wealth during their lives, and at a certain point that wealth is transferred. Buttonwood ensures that the transfer occurs with minimal impact on the assets and maximum control.
During their lives, entrepreneurs build up private wealth, and at a certain point that wealth is transferred. It is best to organize the transfer in such a way that it has minimal impact on that wealth, while retaining maximum control. Inheritance taxes play an important role here.
How do we proceed?
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Discussing everything together
Everything can be arranged in good time with the help of succession planning. We sit down with the entrepreneur to find the best ways to prepare for the transfer. To do that, we analyze the composition of the estate and the entrepreneur’s specific wishes.
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Tailored to your needs
Drawing up a succession plan offers peace of mind for yourself and your family, saves you inheritance taxes and makes it possible for the company to be inherited as a whole. Good succession planning is custom work that is tailored entirely to the individual needs of the entrepreneur.
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Succession planning
Succession planning is constantly evolving: the law sometimes changes, for one thing, and your personal circumstances may also change. That is why it is a good idea to take another look at your current arrangements from time to time and adjust them as necessary.
We can support you with specialized advice as well as taking on the practical organization of estate planning:
- succession planning;
- advice on gifts;
- advice on family wealth law;
- the fiscal and legal structures regarding wealth (both private and company assets)
- planning the transfer of family businesses;
- advice on partnerships, foundations, etc.;
- founding corporations
Example of estate planning
An entrepreneur has worked for a long time building up their own business, and is starting to think about retiring. What would be the best way to ensure succession within the company? Can the entrepreneur simply leave the company to son X and the real estate to daughter Y?
Can the shares be passed on to the next generation without the entrepreneur losing control? What about their spouse? Who would inherit which assets if something were to happen to the entrepreneur right now, and how much inheritance tax would have to be paid? How can this be optimized?
At Buttonwood, we have the tools at our fingertips to answer these questions and to propose a personalized solution tailored to the entrepreneur’s situation. That way, both the entrepreneur and their family can rest assured that everything has been taken care of.
