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Landed estates and rural businesses
Working with over 1,500 landed estates and trusts UK-wide, our dedicated team is close to the issues that matter to our clients and the complex, competing priorities they face.
Our partner-led teams take an experienced and holistic view of the opportunities and risks facing landowners and can help you implement effective long-term strategies.
In many cases, we can enhance the performance and sustainability of a landed estate by maximising alternative income sources and robustly managing tax liabilities and liquidity requirements.
Our services for landed estates
S&W helps clients ranging from large, historic family estates to the recently acquired, as well as family-owned rural businesses and farms.
Our multi-disciplinary advice covers a full range of issues:
- Long-term strategic planning, including diversification strategies and succession planning
- Business services and planning, including corporate tax and compliance, employee benefits and VAT services
- Personal financial and tax advice, including inheritance and capital gains tax advice
- Trusts, helping trustees and executors fulfil their responsibilities
- International elements, including advice on tax issues for international interests
Bringing together this expertise under one roof, means that we can bring new energy to landed and rural estates, helping you to preserve the best of their heritage by planning effectively for the future.
Why choose S&W?
Our coordinated, multi-discipline service is delivered by our specialist partner-led team. Many have been with us their entire careers, developing deep relationships with clients, ensuring understanding of their issues and the excellence of our advice.
Over 170 landed estates and the owners of some of the UK’s most historically significant and complex properties trust us to help manage their estates effectively and deliver change successfully.
Our advisers focus on the issues that matter to you, your business and your community. Drawing on expertise from across the business, we implement strategies that have a real impact on your estate.
Our sole focus is on long-term performance and sustainability, and we work as a part of, not apart from, your wider advisory team to secure the estate’s future.
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