What is Beyond the Boardroom?
Beyond the Boardroom is a practical UK guide for senior executives, entrepreneurs, and C-suite leaders who want to ensure that personal legal blind spots don’t undermine professional success. It addresses personal legal risk, wealth protection and legacy planning.
Why personal legal planning matters for senior leaders
Professional momentum often moves faster than personal planning.
As roles become more senior and assets more complex, legal arrangements that once felt adequate can quickly fall out of date. Many executives only discover gaps when faced with an exit, dispute, family change, illness or unexpected event.
Beyond the Boardroom helps you step back and assess whether your personal legal position has kept pace with your success.
Common personal legal risk areas for senior executives
- Outdated or missing wills and estate planning
- Shareholdings, exits and liquidity events not aligned with personal objectives
- Family arrangements exposed to business risk
- Reputation, confidentiality and dispute risks
- Succession, incapacity or unexpected life events
- Jurisdictional issues as careers become more international
These risks are rarely urgent until they suddenly are. This guide helps you spot them before they become expensive or disruptive.
What the guide covers
Beyond the Boardroom is not a technical legal textbook. It’s a strategic sense-check for senior leaders who want clarity.
Inside, you’ll find:
• The personal legal risks that frequently catch executives out
• How professional success can unintentionally increase personal exposure
• Key decisions around wealth, family and legacy that deserve attention now
• Practical prompts to assess whether your current arrangements are fit for purpose
• Guidance on when specialist legal advice is worth exploring
It’s designed to be read quickly, revisited easily, and used as a quiet but powerful planning tool.
Who this guide is for
This guide is particularly relevant if you are:
- A C-suite executive or senior leader
- A founder or entrepreneur
- A non-executive director or board member
- Approaching an exit, liquidity event or major career shift
- Building significant personal or family wealth
- Simply aware that your personal legal affairs may not have kept pace with your success
If you have ever thought “I should probably look at this at some point”, that point is realistically right now.
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About the law firm Ward Hadaway
Ward Hadaway works with senior executives, entrepreneurs and business leaders across the UK, advising on the personal legal issues that sit alongside complex professional lives alongside achieving the ambitious goals they set for their businesses.
Our approach is discreet, pragmatic and strategic, focused on protecting what matters while enabling clients to move forward with confidence.
If the guide raises questions or highlights areas you’d like to explore, we would be happy to help – simply get in contact.
Email: enquiries@wardhadaway.com
Call: 0330 137 3000