Family business services

Every business’ journey is different. We’re here to help you chart and navigate yours with access to events and programs like Slush, the leading global networking event for ambitious start-up companies from around the world, held in Helsinki at the end of each year. Slush is famed as the place where entrepreneurial business founders and leading technology talent and innovators can meet top-tier international executives, investors, multinational corporations, family businesses, politicians, high-net worth investors and the media.

The Slush philosophy is simple: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies move forward. To do this, the event brings together more than 20,000 attendees from 130 countries, including 1,500 venture capitalists and 2,600 start-ups. As the main sponsor of the event, PwC hosts a delegation of family business leaders and next generation members at Slush every year, and provides them with a specially tailored programme of activities and networking opportunities.

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At PwC, we harness the collective power of some the brightest independent minds across the private business sector and bring peer-to-peer networking to our clients. From years of working with family businesses, we’re ready to support you in fostering entrepreneurship and engaging your next generation, ensuring growth today and legacy tomorrow.

Thanks to our global convening power, we regularly organise some of the world’s highest profile family business gatherings including roundtables and retreats, family business conferences and workshops. We also curate unique family business and NextGen programmes with our global partners such as Slush.

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PwC professionals from our global family business practice train at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Center for Family Enterprise — the same program that many leading business owning families send their families and executives for education. This program credentials our professionals by increasing their knowledge of the specific challenges facing business-owning families including governance, continuity, strategy and managing family dynamics.

PwC is an organisational member of Family Firm Institute (FFI), the most influential global network of thought leaders in the family enterprise field. We count hundreds of our partners as active members of FFI, working to help improve the understanding of — and operating environment for – family businesses across the world. Many of our people regularly take part in FFI’s GEN offering and are certified in Family Business Advisory (CFBA) and Family Wealth Advisory (CFWA). Peter Englisch, PwC’s Global Family Business Leader, is a board of directors member of the FFI, helping to shape the future of this important organisation.

The INTES Family Business Academy is widely regarded as the market leader and first point of contact for business-owning families in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

INTES by PwC stands for:

• Family – INTES has nearly 20 years of experience as a pioneer in consultancy for business-owning families. The methods and models developed by INTES can be found in the family constitutions of many leading family businesses.

• Business – PwC offers auditing, legal and tax advisory services, as well as high-quality international strategy, management and implementation consulting. We supports family businesses with their growth strategies, while also helping them remain independent.

• Academy – INTES provides qualifications for owners, successors, CEOs and advisory boards by offering practice-oriented courses for stakeholders in family businesses.

Through all these offerings, INTES makes business-owning families stronger, and PwC makes family businesses better. All business owners and family businesses can benefit from this unique combination of expertise in ownership and business.

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Your family business, your legacy

Asia Pacific’s vibrant economy makes it the world’s leading growth region — and much of that growth is driven by family businesses like yours, generation after generation. Family control in the region also tends to continue after these businesses go public, with many listed companies across Asia’s stock exchanges still driven by families.

At PwC, our teams stay focused on what matters most to you, as both an owner and a leader, from governance and continuity to the very latest technology solutions that drive results year after year. We understand your business is your ultimate legacy. We don’t take that lightly. From strategy planning to continuity, we use our deep expertise to craft the right approach that delivers results at every stage in your evolution.

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