Autumn Budget 2025: golden nuggets or missed opportunities?

The Autumn Budget 2025, now announced, includes a number of measures framed as supporting entrepreneurship and attracting high-talent individuals to the UK. Whether these go far enough – and where genuine opportunities may lie for business owners and wealth creators – remains an open question.

With a few days’ perspective and the benefit of market reaction, our team recently hosted a webinar to look beyond the headlines and identify the direction of travel and potential opportunities within the evolving tax landscape – from dividend tax hikes and frozen thresholds to expanded Enterprise Investment Scheme limits and new incentives.

In this replay, you will learn about:

• The headline measures introduced in the Budget
• Their implications for entrepreneurs, founders and family businesses
• How changes may affect business strategy, funding, exits and succession

In a period of continued change, our team explored how thoughtful planning can help preserve flexibility, maintain control and identify opportunity – whether you are building, transitioning or relocating your business and wealth.

With extensive experience in UK and international wealth planning, Sophie Dworetzsky, Head of Wealth Planning UK, David Barker, Senior Wealth Planner UK, and Izzy Holgate, Wealth Planner at Lombard Odier, unpacked the key measures announced in the Autumn Budget 2025. They explored practical planning considerations and potential opportunities for high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and families – whether remaining in the UK or navigating cross-border wealth structuring.