Dear Another Way, Families providing capital to other families can be from the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars. We work closely with our U.S based alliance partners on providing patient capital to our clients and others and there is clear and well used risk management process that has been in place for 20 years.

Dear R.W Yes your statements are correct and in fact we typically only deal with minority interests as when you really understand family business you know that the significant value is in the families continued control.

Dear M.B, I suppose the question is why does your family business want to sell? Liquidity for the exit of the outgoing generation (Liquidity)? De-risking the family capital? Or looking for growth capital as part of a “becoming global or larger strategy? We are globally recognised as bringing capital to family groups firstly because that capital is from a family group that recognises the unique characteristics of families in business and importantly are patient and not looking for any quick turnaround and exit. We would want to see that the family has commenced or well developed family governance processes and that the reasons for raising capital are strategically aligned between the business, its owners and both of these systems succession needs.