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Hire a family business advisor in Greece and Cyprus

An outside voice for the questions a family cannot settle among itself: who takes over, how the company is governed, and what happens if nobody is ready.

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Most companies in Greece and Cyprus are family-owned, and the questions that decide their future are rarely technical. A family business and succession advisor works them through with the family over months, in the order the family can bear, alongside its lawyers and tax advisors. The questions that come up:

  • The successor: who, in which role, on what timeline and who tells the founder
  • Governance for a wider family, once siblings and cousins share the ownership
  • Ownership and management: where one stops and the other starts, and which outside managers come in
  • No successor in the family: a sale, a partner or a management buy-in

The family business advisors on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals: independent board members of family groups, specialists from the family business practices of Big 4 firms and former chief executives who were the first outsider in a family company. The legal and tax work stays with the family's own advisors.

What does a family business and succession advisor actually do?

  • Assess the next generation: readiness, the roles that fit and the development each needs
  • Design the succession path, including what the founder keeps and when they step back
  • Set up family governance: a family council, an independent board and rules for who speaks
  • Prepare the ownership questions for the lawyers, so legal work starts from decisions
  • Bring in the first outside managers with a mandate the family will respect
  • Mediate between generations when a business decision has become a family one

How to choose the right family business and succession advisor

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

  1. Took a succession to completion

    Has seen a founder actually step back, and can describe the moment it nearly failed.

  2. Has the founder conversation

    Can tell the founder, privately and first, that a child is not ready or that the timeline is too long.

  3. Drafted a family charter

    Has written a family charter or protocol with a family, and knows which of its rules got tested first.

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A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right family business and succession advisor for it.

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