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The Global Family Business Champions

East & East Anglia Partners

Updated: Apr 7, 2025


Birketts are East & East Anglia Regional Partners of Family Business United.


What We Do

Birketts LLP is a UK Top 50 law firm with a dedicated Family Business Team. We advise family-owned businesses on key strategic decisions relating to the growth and sale of family businesses. We also advise on non-family recruitment and day-to-day operational issues.


Services Offered To Family Businesses

Our expertise covers succession planning, sales and acquisitions, governance issues, employment, dispute resolution, trust creation and administration, and other personal wealth protection issues. Our Family Business Team comprises lawyers from a wide range of disciplines, but all with a knowledge and understanding of the particular challenges facing this unique sector.


We have strong relationships with other professional advisers and organisations working alongside family businesses, meaning we can provide quick and cost-effective solutions.


Visit Our Website To Find out More




"Family businesses are important because they are the driving force of the UK economy. As lawyers to many of the UK’s leading family businesses, our role is to support them at stages of their evolution.”

Jennifer Leeder

Partner, Head of Family Business


T +44 1473 299153

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Regional Family Business Panel Discussion

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

An interactive panel discussion with plenty of family business insights over lunch at Canary Wharf.

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