• What do you do when someone approaches you and offers to be your business partner bringing in needed expertise and skills to help to develop your company?
• What do you do when a venture capitalist approaches you with an offer of an injection of cash to help you to grow your business?
This Seminar will discuss and present some options that will help you in the process of making logical and legally sensible decisions regarding growing your business by joining forces with a business partner – silent or vocal. These decisions can have very long term implications. Padraig will focus the talk on collaborations such as joint ventures and venture capital financing.
This presentation will interest members who have reached a crossroads in the development of their business, and want to hear practical insights on decisions they must make to move to the next stage of development. Although targeted at businesses in the early to mid-stage of development, many of the risk factors addressed will be relevant to mature businesses looking to change direction from organic growth.
Seminar Outline:
Growing your business from infancy to maturity poses many challenges. At the early stages, you trade in the currency of ideas, not profit. Gradually, your business may gain traction, and potential of success moves to possibility and even to probability. Then the ethereal vision of what dreams may come, becomes the reality of what choices must be made.
Those choices include:
• Growing organically
• Entering strategic alliances or joint ventures
• Accessing funding through venture capital investment
There is no right or wrong answer, but you will leave this presentation equipped with the questions you need to ask to make an informed decision. It will be followed by an interactive Q & A session.
About the speaker
The British Chamber is pleased to have Mr. Pádraig Walsh, Partner of the corporate commercial group of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, to talk to our members and guests on this subject. His delivery style is engaging and interactive, and it promises to be an informative, entertaining and interesting event.
Pádraig has assisted MNC’s and other corporates on a range of corporate procedures, including corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has particular experience of assisting clients in the insurance, aerospace, professional services, and fashion & beauty distribution and retail sectors. Pádraig is a frequent speaker on these and other topics, including corporate governance, and provides bespoke training and guidance to the internal legal function of clients.
This event is organised by the SME Committee. A sandwich lunch will be provided. Please allow enough time to get past the security checks at the Consulate which can take a few minutes.
