You're Not Dead. Your Business Just Thinks You Are.

Every business owner plans for the things that might go wrong. Fire. Theft. A cyber breach. A key client walking away. Almost nobody plans for the one scenario that stops a business dead in its tracks: the owner losing mental capacity.

Here is the part most people get wrong. A Will is for when you die. A Lasting Power of Attorney is for when you are still very much alive, but temporarily unable to sign your name, make a decision, or run the business you built. A stroke. An accident. A long spell in hospital. And in that moment, nobody has the automatic right to step in. Not your spouse. Not your business partner. Not your next of kin.

The consequences arrive fast. 60% of banks will freeze the account if a single signatory loses capacity, even when you are perfectly fine and they are not. Payroll is missed. Contracts stall. Insurance lapses. Refinancing becomes impossible. And the only route back is the Court of Protection: over £4,000 in fees and, right now, more than a year of waiting.

In this seminar, Nellie McQuinn, founder of AWAY Wills and a registered Will writer, breaks down business Lasting Powers of Attorney in plain English. She explains what they are, why every limited company, partnership, sole trader and LLP needs one, and the costly mistakes people make trying to do it themselves. She covers the hidden trap sitting in your company's model articles, the 51,000 LPAs rejected by the Office of the Public Guardian every year, and the real cost of getting it wrong, including the very public case of Kate Garraway.

You will leave knowing exactly what a business LPA is, whether you need one, and how to protect your business before it is too late. It takes twenty minutes. It could save everything you have built.