Company
Position
Senior consultant
Index
Generational Wealth & Family Business Advisers
Location
London
Advice type
Business succession planning
Family businesses
Family governance
Client type
Business owners
Families
Family offices
HNW
Sector Focus
Consultancy
Peter Leach
Spear’s Review
Peter Leach has been described as the ‘founding father of family business thinking in the UK’. Previously at Deloitte, he founded Peter Leach Associates in 2019 before taking up the position of principal consultant at Sylvan Family Business Advisers.
Leach’s wide-ranging practice covers advisory work with family enterprises. Leach says his experience has taught him that there are three kinds of difficulties in family businesses: ‘Personality, structure and the business itself. While everybody blames the personality, my belief is that it is rarely the personality which is the root of the problem, but that the structure is wrong.’
He is the author of Family Enterprises: The Essentials as well as numerous practical guides, and works as an adjunct professor of family business at Imperial College.
Rank: Senior Statesperson
Senior Statesperson 2025, Generational Wealth & Family Business Advisers