How will you be remembered? What is the best way to pass on wealth to the next in line? Will your children accept financial responsibilities? Understanding delicate dynamics around wealth, inheritance and legacy will help us create the right wealth transfer strategy for your family—and a comprehensive estate planning strategies. We will work alongside you and your trusted tax and legal advisors help to ensure the plan is tailored to your wishes and executed accurately and efficiently. Our focus is to help ensure the wealth you’ve created addresses your short- and long-term goals and your family commitments.

The decision to step away from your business is an enormously personal experience. We strive to obtain all the financial facts around the decisions you need to make, but we also look more deeply at the family dynamics and emotions that may underlie your choices. Our process takes you from the initial stages of exit or succession planning through the closing of your transaction. We can also advise you well before closing on the best strategies for helping you manage the proceeds to pursue future financial goals.

Neither UBS Financial Services Inc. nor any of its employees provide tax or legal advice. You should consult with your personal tax or legal advisor regarding your personal circumstances.

We actively assess correlations, volatility, liquidity and other variables that differ among sectors, portfolio managers and their preferred allocations—a process that enables us to effectively align our best thinking with current economic and market conditions—and carefully weigh for you all sides of a potential opportunity. Once this rigorous due diligence is complete, we apply our collective insights to prudently execute the solutions we’ve recommended.

Many of our clients are corporate executives who work for public firms or private business owners who seek funding to expand their companies. They frequently have a number of planning needs that result from significant stock awards. For executives of public companies, we have extensive experience navigating highly concentrated positions that may be subject to Rule 144. We also have a full suite of hedging and lending services that can protect and enhance your positions, should you choose not to sell. For privately held businesses, we can work with our investment banking specialists to determine how best to create liquidity for your family.

We can work with you to clarify your philanthropic strategy and the charitable giving program that best reflects your vision and values as well as your investment goals. In doing so, we’ll also offer you access to our considerable professional network of contacts and resources that can help you transform your philanthropic passions into meaningful impact.

Neither UBS Financial Services Inc. nor any of its employees provide tax or legal advice. You should consult with your personal tax or legal advisor regarding your personal circumstances.