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While family businesses often outperform their non-family counterparts, they must navigate complex issues like succession planning, ownership alignment, and strategic direction.
A family office governance charter provides a structured approach to define legacy, align interests, and ensure smooth generational transitions.
Every successful family business eventually faces the same critical question: How do we preserve wealth, values, and unity across generations?
Family-owned businesses often outperform their non-family counterparts due to strong values and long-term vision. However, they also face unique governance challenges:
Preserving wealth goes beyond investments. It requires a structured, inclusive framework of governance that builds trust, enables dialogue, and ensures smooth transitions.
We begin with one-on-one conversations, questionnaire and family mapping to understand the current structure, individual expectations and key concerns. This helps identify areas of alignment, potential conflict and shared values.
Using insights gathered, we facilitate collaborative workshops to define the family’s long-term vision, roles and guiding principles. Tools such as the start–stop–continue matrix are used to refine what to retain, change or introduce.
We support the setup of family councils, advisory roles and regular meetings to create formal platforms for dialogue, transparency and collective decision-making
We outline clear pathways for next generation involvement through defined entry criteria, development plans and mentoring programmes aligned with family values and business goals.
We develop a customised family office governance charter that captures agreed principles, structures and succession planning, along with an implementation roadmap and review mechanisms.
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Family values and vision
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Define shared values and long-term aspirations
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Vision statement and alignment across generations
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Family constitution
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Develop a comprehensive governance document
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Draft constitution with key policies and safeguards
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Implementation and transition
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Create actionable guidelines for governance and succession planning
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Implementation roadmap with periodic reviews
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Specialists in Indian family dynamics
Integrated expertise across law, tax, finance, and emotional dynamics
Custom governance frameworks, not templates
Experience in facilitating complex conversations and transitions
Strong network of legal, wealth, and regulatory experts
End-to-end support from drafting to implementation and mentoring
