Succession
Nobody in the next generation wants to run it, or two branches want different things. The choice is between a family transfer, a management buyout, a partial sale and a full sale, and each needs its own preparation.
For family-owned businesses
Corporate finance for family-owned businesses
A family business faces a few decisions rarely and with a lot at stake: who takes over, whether to bring in outside capital and on what terms, when to hire leadership from outside the family, and how to buy out a shareholder. Alehar works on these with the owners, from the first conversation to the signed agreement.
Alehar has published 15 guides for family-owned businesses: 9 apply in any market and 6 are written for India, the Philippines and the Netherlands. Updated September 2026.
Get in TouchThe decisions owners bring to us
Each one comes up once or twice in the life of a business. Each has a guide below, written for the owner.
First outside capital
Growth needs more money than the business generates, and the bank's terms have tightened. Institutional debt and minority equity are both open to a well-run family company. Each of these has an associated cost in control, reporting and covenants that is worth understanding.
Leadership from outside the family before a sale
Buyers pay less for a business that cannot run without the owner. A non-family CEO or CFO, brought in well ahead of a sale, changes what a buyer sees and what the family has to promise after closing.
Shareholder buyouts
One branch of the family wants out. The business has to agree a valuation basis both sides accept, size the debt it can carry, and structure deferred payments so the buyout does not starve operations.
How Alehar helps
Every engagement maps to one of three services. Which one applies depends on where you need support.
Tell us which of these decisions is on the table.
We reply within 24 hours with how we would approach it.
Client stories
Companies we have worked with on the same decisions.
Three engagements on the same decisions: a firmer capital structure before the next phase, a first institutional raise, and a finance function built before outside money arrives.
Resources
More ResourcesTools for the decisions a family business faces
Guides for family-owned businesses
Each guide covers one decision in enough detail to act on.
Guides by market
Tax, lender behaviour and investor terms differ by country. Pick your market. Each row ends with the valuation calculator for that market: it gives a first indication of what a business like yours is worth there, by industry. Use it before a succession conversation, a minority raise or a buyout, then talk to us about the number.
Frequently asked questions
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