Ideas & Stories

Using equity as a carrot to keep your best people.

Are you really ready for a ‘partnership’? What steps can you take to optimise success? What price? What terms? How will they pay? So many questions! Perhaps with the general exception of family businesses, sharing equity in a business has …
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The Value of Opportunity

How can it be fair for one child to take ownership in the family business? What about the other kids? Perhaps a hundred years ago, businesses (often farms) were often handed down to the oldest son. It was a way of keeping the business in the …
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The New Heady Days of Succession

Nothing like a good pandemic to shake things up! Every decade or so, an upsurge in activity in capital markets drives interest in mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, and sales of businesses. Understandably, this also underpins strong interest …
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Follow your dreams…

When Andrea and Chris first met the irrepressible Felix Borenstein, he owned the successful and vibrant HR consulting and contracting business, Parkside Consulting. Over the years, Felix became one of our larger clients.  As Felix once said …
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