A New Service to Hertfordshire Businesses

Dear All

My firm, like your business, is a member of the Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce & Industry. I am pleased to tell you that we have recently accepted an invitation from the Chamber to become Patron Members. Since accepting the invitation we have considered how we might use Patron Membership for the benefit of businesses within the County.

We have resolved to extend our role as facilitators for businesses in Hertfordshire, in particular for those who are members of the Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce. Although we continue to assist local business development in our usual ways, for example hosting breakfast meetings with topical speakers, we should like to offer something that your business might find useful in these difficult times. For an initial 3-month period we are offering a free consultancy service for Chamber Members who may need general advice relating to their businesses (which may not necessarily be legal advice) but are not sure whether they would benefit from it or where to find it. Our scheme enables you to meet with someone here (usually a Director) free-of-charge to discuss problem(s) that your business faces. Whilst we may not always be able to assist you ourselves we aim to point you in the right direction with a view to your alleviating those problems currently affecting your business. The Chamber has provided to us a list of professional and other advisors who might be able to assist (on a similar basis) with any problems that we identify with you at our meeting.

If you would like to book a free half hour appointment, please contact Georgina Meadows at our Hertford office on 01992 558411 or email her on georgina.meadows@breezeandwyles.co.uk. Please note that during the initial period the meeting will be held on a Thursday afternoon from 4.00 pm.

For more information about our breakfast meetings, or to subscribe to our free monthly Employment Law Update "ezine", please visit our website www.breezeandwyles.co.uk. In addition feel free to visit our "Lonely Business Owner" blog available here

We look forward to helping you do business.

Yours sincerely



Peter Tunstill, Senior Partner
For and on behalf of
Breeze & Wyles Solicitors LLP

The Lonely Business Owner

At times like these when the business is as lean as is possible and you are barely breaking even you are probably spending most of your time working in your business rather than on it. Dealing with day to day micro-operational issues means that the problems aren’t getting better you are the only person that can make those decisions.

Every time you look up is the situation is worsening?

Maybe it is so bad that you cannot see through the symptoms to the problems and as result not solution is possible. In circumstances like these the one thing that needs to be done is to get an objective opinion about the situation from an outsider.

There will undoubtedly be a time when taking formal insolvency advice is the only course of action and indeed that may also be a safe place to start. However, we are seeing many business owners only turning for help when the situation is irretrievable. The reality is that in most cases early action would have saved the business or created a better outcome. Turnaround professionals tend to see crisis situation with requirements for crisis management where the options are severely limited. It would be better for the client if they had approached the professional earlier thereby increasing the options. An Insolvency Practitioner might very well say that they cannot help because this is not a situation appropriate for formal insolvency procedures. In those circumstances, perhaps an outside management consultant may be able to help enabling a costs effective business retention solution with minimal impact on the business and its reputation.

If you would like to have an objective discussion, please contact me or my team on 01279 715333 or brendan.obrien@breezeandwyles.co.uk.

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Those who follow my blog or LinkedIn will know that I am a Director and the Head of Company Commercial and Corporate Recovery at Breeze & Wyles Solicitors LLP. The firm's Corporate Recovery team was launched in mid 2009 to meet the changing demands of a number of high profile clients. The team has handled a number of corporate recovery instructions within this period and associated work such as claims against directors and book debt recovery.

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