Fundraising legals, for non-legal entrepreneurs

So you have secured investor interest. How do you now successfully close
the deal whilst protecting your own interests, and those of your company
and investors without racking up huge legal fees?

In partnership with leading law firm, Payne Hicks Beach, the key outputs of this course are as follows:

• Understanding the key legal issues for fund-raising.
• Why it is essential to keep the deal simple - the necessity of avoiding complicated share-structures.
• The importance of a term-sheet.
• How to manage the fundraising timetable.
• Understanding due diligence requirements from a legal perspective.
• The importance of putting in place sound legal foundations to avoid future pain for both directors and investors.
• Defining your legal obligations to shareholders.
• Understanding legals from an investors’ perspective.
• Explaining what comprises and why you need service level and shareholder agreements.
• De-mystifying the legal jargon (tag & drag rights, good leaver/
bad leaver clauses etc).
• What’s a share-option, why you need them, and how do you incorporate them into the share-holding structure of the company.
• Key learnings from case studies of angel investments.