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Business Succession Planning Summary

Key Points

  • It's never too early to start thinking ahead and create a succession plan to help protect your family and your business
  • Early succession planning may put you in a position to:
    • Lay out an orderly transition of ownership and management
    • Potentially sustain assets to retire or keep the business going
    • Help to protect long-term value
    • Likely avoid common missteps
  • There are four basic steps to the succession planning process:
    • Create a personal balance sheet
    • Identify goals and priorities
    • Identify challenges in achieving your goals
    • Create an ownership succession plan
  • Understand the most common succession planning strategies
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Contact

To determine how Wealth Compass can help meet your objectives, please contact National Director of Business Value Strategies Stuart Smith, Senior Wealth Planning Analyst Cailin MacLean, or your Wilmington Trust advisor.

This presentation is for informational purposes only and is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the sale of any financial product or service. This presentation is not designed or intended to provide financial, tax, legal, accounting, or other professional advice since such advice always requires consideration of individual circumstances. If professional advice is needed, the services of your professional advisor should be sought.

Wilmington Trust is a registered service mark used in connection with various fiduciary and non-fiduciary services offered by certain subsidiaries of M&T Bank Corporation including, but not limited to, Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company (M&T Bank), Wilmington Trust Company (WTC) operating in Delaware only, Wilmington Trust, N.A. (WTNA), Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (WTIA), Wilmington Funds Management Corporation (WFMC), and Wilmington Trust Investment Management, LLC (WTIM). Such services include trustee, custodial, agency, investment management, and other services. Loans, credit cards, retail and business deposits, and other business and personal banking services and products are offered by M&T Bank, Member FDIC.

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