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READ MOREWe provide proactive and strategic legal support to professionals, business owners and high net worth individuals whose affairs are complex and often multigenerational.
We can help you with everything from pre nuptial agreements, to purchasing a new home, updating your Will, divorce and succession planning,
We can also assist with any urgent crisis management. For example, we help our clients navigate disputes and reputational issues arising from adverse publicity for those living in the public eye, as a consequence of family breakdown, or defending criminal charges.
Strategic advice is key. We offer pragmatic and robust civil and criminal representation and advocacy and can act urgently to preserve your wealth and reputation where needed.
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Our expertise
- Business succession planning
- Criminal Defence & Road Traffic
- Real Estate
- Reputation management
- Residential Property
- Philanthropy
- Private judge-led proceedings or mediation
- Wealth protection and prenuptial agreements
Examples of our work:
- Advising business owners & entrepreneurs on multigenerational planning and tax-efficient restructuring to protect wealth.
- Supporting and representing athletes and those in the creative industries to deal with contractual matters and disputes and manage their image rights.
- Defending claims against senior executives and professionals.
- Advising Family Offices: On employment matters, we are experienced at working with Family Office Chief of Staff, advising on various matters, including managing staff performance, dealing with conduct issues and assisting with confidential exits (particularly important where the family prizes privacy above all else).
- Advising high net worth individuals on employment law issues including restrictive covenants and confidential negotiated exits.
- Assisting high net worth individuals with residential property purchases and sales, remortgages, title transfers, disposals after divorce or separation, executry disposals and sales.
- Acting for families, sometimes over several generations, in navigating issues related to ownership of property, land and farms and estates and business and real estate premises.
- Protecting generational wealth with prenuptial agreements and securing the tax-efficient preservation of assets in divorce.
- Creating lasting legacies for philanthropists through wills, bequests, endowments, or charitable bodies to support charitable endeavours.
- Proactive and discreet advice to high net worth individuals and organisations facing criminal charges to mitigate the reputational impact.
- Defending business people and high net worth individuals in connection with a range of matters, from firearms and wildlife offences, to road traffic offences, financial misconduct breaches, embezzlement and fraud charges.
Why BTO?
Our team is highly skilled, dedicated, discreet and brings all the expertise you need under one roof.
We will work with you to anticipate and manage legal risk in your private and working life.
With BTO, you will receive a personalised holistic strategy to protect your wealth and business interests. We understand the pressures on your time and offer responsive and tailored advice.
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