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Group Restructuring Advice

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Expert advice to restructure your business around your changing goals

As a business grows and changes, the corporate structure that once suited it may no longer support what its owners want to achieve. Group restructuring involves reorganising the ownership, assets, activities or companies within a business group to create a structure that better reflects its current and future needs.

Kirk Rice helps businesses and shareholders assess, plan and implement group restructurings, including:

Holding company and group structures
Asset transfers and ring-fencing
Demergers
Employee Ownership Trusts and employee share schemes
Succession planning
Pre-sale corporate simplification
M&A integration
Business and financial restructuring

Our specialists consider the commercial, financial and tax implications of a proposed restructure, helping you understand the available options and develop a structure aligned with your business and shareholder objectives.

Talk to us about restructuring your business today: info@kirkrice.co.uk

If you have any questions, please get in touch

Asset Protection & Risk Mitigation

As your business grows, the structure that you started with may evolve into something that no longer suits your objectives. High-value commercial assets like property or IP can be exposed to daily trading risks or the wants of shareholders.

Kirk Rice’s group restructuring experts assess your business and make tailored restructuring recommendations.

Some of the options we often explore are:

Holding Company Creation: Inserting a parent company to sit above the trading entity. Aims to improve business reporting and accountability.
Asset Trimming/Transfers: Moving intellectual property or property into a safer parent company.
Group Ring-fencing: Separating high-risk trading activities into subsidiaries to help reduce complexity and manage isolated risks.

We aim to create an arrangement that aligns with your goals and protects your business for the road ahead.

Shareholder, Succession & Employee Alignment

There comes a time when all business owners think about exiting their business or stepping back. Partners may want to go their separate ways. Alternatively, you may need help deciding who’ll succeed you. After spending years building a business together, many owners want to make sure key staff are rewarded or have career continuity.

Our specialists look at various options to achieve your personal exit goals:

Demergers: Separating business components or allowing business partners to split cleanly to reduce material tax penalties.
Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs): Restructuring the business equity to pass ownership to the broader workforce as a more tax-efficient succession mechanism.
Employee Share Schemes & Incentivisation: Restructuring equity or offering share options to drive operational performance in specific parts of the business.
Succession planning: Determining how ownership and leadership of the business can pass to the next generation, management team or other chosen successors.

Kirk Rice’s business succession specialists help you understand your exit options. We help you plan who’ll take over after you have stepped down and understand how key people are taken care of.

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Growth, M&A, & Tax-Led Reorganisations

The goal of preparing a business for a sale is often to help smooth the process and make it a more attractive proposition to buyers. Looking to achieve operational efficiencies and economies of scale can often be part of that.

For those not selling, growth often means a merger of two businesses. Kirk Rice has almost three decades of experience helping owners sell, merge or optimise their businesses.

Some of the activities we can help with are:

Pre-Sale Corporate Simplification: Separating or restructuring business wings in advance of an exit to maximise business and shareholder value.
Merger & Acquisition Integration: Amalgamating corporate structures post-transaction to ensure structures operate efficiently and match the shareholders’ commercial objectives.

Our group restructuring services

We help businesses and shareholders assess, plan and implement group restructurings.

Holding company and group structures

Asset transfers and ring-fencing

Demergers

Learn more about our demerger services.

Employee Ownership Trusts and employee share schemes

Learn more about our Employee Ownership Trusts and employee share schemes.

Exit and succession planning

Helping existing owners consider how and when to step back and how ownership can transfer to the management team.

Learn more: Thinking of exiting or stepping back from your business?

Pre-sale corporate simplification

M&A integration

Learn more about our M&A services.

Business and financial restructuring

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Benefits of working with Kirk Rice

Early discussion to understand your objectives

Understand the tax implications of restructuring

A team experienced in restructuring businesses

Expert support & guidance throughout the process

Underperformance & Financial Turnaround

Kirk Rice has almost three decades of experience helping businesses optimise their systems, processes and procedures. An over-leveraged balance sheet, loss of a key employee or out-of-date bookkeeping can all play a role.

Our team of experts can help you understand where things are going wrong and form a plan with you to get back on track.

Restructure your business around what comes next

The right structure depends on where your business is today and what you and your fellow shareholders want to achieve next. That could mean protecting assets, preparing for growth or a transaction, planning succession or responding to financial challenges.

Kirk Rice brings together business advisory, tax and restructuring expertise to consider the different implications of a proposed restructure. Where legal implementation is required, we can work alongside your lawyers and other professional advisers to help coordinate the process.

Talk to us about your restructuring plans today: info@kirkrice.co.uk

Frequently asked questions

Answers to common questions about MBOs.

What is group restructuring?

Group restructuring involves reorganising the ownership, assets, activities or companies within a business group to create a structure that better reflects its current and future needs. The right structure depends on where the business is today and what its shareholders want to achieve next.

Why might a business consider group restructuring?

Can group restructuring help protect business assets?

Can a business be restructured before a sale?

Our Team

Meet our team of group restructuring specialists.

Richard joined Kirk Rice in 2024 having spent 15 years as a tax partner at Rice Associates. He advises clients from individual business owners to large corporate clients. Outside of work he enjoys outdoor life including running, cycling, and swimming plus spending time with his family. Richard Somerville Partner - Tax Thames Valley
Alex is a Chartered Tax Adviser and Chartered Accountant with over 15 years experience in tax. He joined Kirk Rice in 2021. Alex advises businesses ranging from small and medium sized firms to large groups and has particular experience in corporate restructures, share schemes and M&A advice. Outside of work Alex is married with 2 boys and enjoys following the fortunes of Tottenham Hotspur when time permits. Alex Taylor Partner - Corporate Tax Thames Valley

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If you have any questions, please get in touch

Growth, M&A, & Tax-Led Reorganisations

Our group restructuring services

Holding company and group structures

Asset transfers and ring-fencing

Demergers

Employee Ownership Trusts and employee share schemes

Exit and succession planning

Pre-sale corporate simplification

M&A integration

Business and financial restructuring

Get In Touch

Benefits of working with Kirk Rice

Early discussion to understand your objectives

Understand the tax implications of restructuring

A team experienced in restructuring businesses

Expert support & guidance throughout the process

Underperformance & Financial Turnaround

Restructure your business around what comes next

Frequently asked questions

What is group restructuring?

Why might a business consider group restructuring?

Can group restructuring help protect business assets?

Can a business be restructured before a sale?

Our Team

How can we help you? Enquire now using the form, or call us on the numbers below.

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