Private Business Owners

We help business owners deal with an array of financial challenges and opportunities including financing, business succession, employee benefit plans, and executive compensation.​


An old photo of Young's Funeral Home in Ferriday Louisiana, Johnny Young's parents' business, and his roots.

Photo: Young’s Funeral Home

Many of our clients are successful business owners who we help plan for continued growth and expansion; eventual succession or sale; and post-succession or -sale purpose and fulfillment.

We provide strategies and solutions for cash management, banking and financing; non-portfolio risk mitigation; executive compensation; and employee benefit plans.

We help business owners answer the question — “Do you need to sell, or do you want to sell?” – and help them assess their options under either scenario.

And post-succession or -sale, we help our clients decide – “What to do next? How do they safeguard the fruits of their labor? How do they do so in the most tax-efficient manner? And how do they redeploy their wealth in a way that is most meaningful and important to them?

A postcard of Daggett Chocolate Factory, probably where Roy Spinks' family worked.

Photo: Daggett Chocolate Factory