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Employees, IT and environmental checks when buying a business
What you need to know about a business' employees, IT systems and environmental responsibilities before buying it.
Confidential information and confidentiality agreements
Understand your legal obligations when buying an existing business.
How to assess a company's assets
Decide which assets you want to buy from the business and check the seller's intentions as regards those assets.
Franchise your business
Growing your business by working with independent franchisees.
Conducting research when buying a business
How to research and analyse information on an existing business you are thinking of buying.
Getting paid when exporting
Guidance on reducing risks associated with receiving payments from selling goods or services internationally.
Manage the risks of exporting
Learn how you can identify and manage export risks.
Export licences and certificates
Licences, certificates and special rules for taking goods out of the UK
Voluntary liquidation
Why voluntary liquidation might be the best way to cease your involvement in your business.
Why succession planning is important
How knowing what succession planning is and knowing what's at stake will help you to make wise decisions.
Minimise the impact of import delivery problems
Controlling the risk of damaged, delayed or incomplete deliveries.
Manage foreign exchange risk for imports
Protection against changing exchange rates.
Manage country risk for imports
Different cultures, regulations, languages and other country risks for importers.
Assess the reliability of overseas suppliers
Managing supplier risk for imports.
Ensure imported goods meet your requirements
Ensuring imports meet UK legal requirements and customer demand.
Avoid payment problems with imports
Import payment methods and financial planning.
Tax implications of family succession
Pass shares to family members tax-efficiently, maximising relief for Capital Gains Tax and inheritance tax.