Taking back control
When something the family owns has stopped answering to it.
Family wealth multiplies through structure: trusts, holdings, board seats, direct investments, joint ventures, external mandates. Over time, structures develop their own gravitational pull. A board that was meant to serve the family starts serving itself. A direct investment whose governance was thin becomes opaque. An external manager keeps charging fees long after it stopped delivering value.
The asset still belongs to the family — but the family no longer steers it. That is when we are called.
When this happens
- A board or committee is taking directions that no longer serve the sole interest of the family.
- A direct investment has gone quiet on reporting, on governance, or on cash distribution.
- An external manager is making decisions the family thought it had retained.
- A trust or holding company is being run by trustees who have stopped consulting the family.
What we do
- Map the situation honestly — who has what authority, who is supposed to, where the gap is.
- Identify the right intervention — replacement of a board member, renegotiation of a mandate, reset of a governance framework.
- Lead the difficult conversations — with directors, trustees, managers, and counterparties — on the family's behalf.
- Restore decision rights to the family, in writing, in a way that holds for the future.
How we engage
These mandates run three to nine months only, with a clear before-and-after. We come in with full authority from the family, do the work, and step out once the lines are reset.
If this is your moment.
Conversations with Westwick are strictly confidential. They commit the family to nothing — and us to discretion.