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Shaw Gibbs and Hine Solicitors are pleased to announce the launch of Third Wednesday in Summertown (TWIST), a networking group for businesses based in Summertown.

As you get older you need less and less capital to last you for the rest of your life – simple enough equation you might think. However, where your capital is tied up in property this becomes a bigger problem, ‘you can’t spend bricks’ as they say.

Having been introduced to a lady who was being made redundant from a Director level position in the city, initially our conversation revolved around the redundancy package, pensions and the new jobs she was interviewing for. Being the main breadwinner and with school and University fees to fund, she was naturally keen to make sure that the family standard of living was going to continue and had every confidence that she would get a similar level and type of job fairly quickly.

A lovely couple from the Midlands had sold the business that they had spent thirty years building and running. The question was whether what they had got from the business was a life changing amount of money.