Family enterprise

We support you, your family, your business and your investments, to grow a more valuable enterprise, navigate disruptions and manage successful generational transitions.

What successful family enterprises do well is create value. Constantly. Generation after generation. They innovate and adapt at pace and at scale. They leverage the very disruptions that initially cause uncertainty into opportunities. With a nod to their heritage, they keep their eyes to the future and on the legacy they want to pass on to the next generation of leaders and to society.

As trusted advisors to most of the world’s largest 500 family enterprises, we are ready to support your family legacy.

Through the EY Family Enterprise DNA Model, we support the family enterprise to focus on four strategic drivers for long-term success: business growth, company capitalization, generational transition, and stakeholder liquidity. It’s built on experience drawn from over 100 years working with family enterprises like yours.

Our latest thinking

How the world’s 500 largest family businesses build and sustain value

The 2025 EY and University of St.Gallen Global 500 Family Business Index ranks the world’s largest family businesses. Read more.

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Helping the next generation sustain an entrepreneurial spirit

The Rigby Group brought EY teams on board to optimize their “buy and build” strategy and expand their global leadership in technology. Learn more.

How Baterias Moura enabled success through succession

Family Enterprise case study: How Baterias Moura enabled success through succession. Learn more.

EY Family Enterprise DNA Model

The EY Family Enterprise DNA Model pinpoints the key areas of focus for family enterprise leaders to achieve their personal and business ambitions.
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Family Office

Our family office professionals can help you evaluate best practices of leading family offices to support the family’s vision and legacy. Find out more.
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Private Tax Services

Our private client tax services team can help you maintain your business and personal goals while achieving full reporting compliance. Learn more.
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The EY 7 Drivers of Growth

Our 7 Drivers of Growth framework can help your business successfully execute your growth strategy over the long term. Find out how.
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The team

Chris Vandermeersche

EY Belgium Tax & Law Leader

30+ years of experience advising multinational, family-owned companies and PE firms. Holistic knowledge of restructuring and M&A transactions. Proud parent, hobby-cook, and Mediterranean region fan.

Diegem, Belgium

Eric Van Hoof

EY Belgium Assurance Partner

Serving national, international and multinational corporations. Supporting family businesses, their owners and their managers, wherever they operate in the world.

Diegem, Belgium

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