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From lab to market: how Bloom’s breakthrough technology could scale up bio-based production and accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.

Based in Berkeley, California, Twelve aims to replace fossil fuels with air and water, creating identical products while cutting emissions. We spoke with Co-founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders on how their groundbreaking technology is closing the carbon loop, an innovative step toward a circular economy.

In our guide to business succession, we outline the essential steps for selling a company with complete peace of mind.

Budget bill, rate cuts, transfer conditions: our wealth engineering experts analyse the challenges facing entrepreneurs in France in 2025. 

For entrepreneurs, passing on or selling their business is a challenge. This unavoidable rite of passage becomes all the more emotional when the business is a family one.

As an entrepreneur, identifying the cashflow pitfalls that lie beyond the sale of your business and designing an investment strategy to avoid them is vital if your wealth plan is to succeed. However, the nature of these pitfalls is heavily dependent on the structure of your deal – and no two sale agreements are the same.

We brought together family businesses, entrepreneurs, and the thought leaders of tomorrow for our annual LO Generations Summit to rethink the seismic shifts the world is going through, and to explore how investors should react.

Lombard Odier teamed up with Bilan magazine and HEG Fribourg to conduct an in-depth study of 245 family businesses in French-speaking Switzerland. The study addresses several themes, such as business transmission and succession, the evolution of corporate culture, performance and innovation.