Are you ready for investment? Check out these workshops

Designed to help you to address the important question: ‘What is an investor looking for and how can I give myself the best chance of raising finance?’, this is a series of 6 free-of-charge workshops.

13 April – Practical Business Plans & Going Global
Venue: Baker Tilly offices. 2 Whitehall Quay, Leeds. LS1 4HG
Speaker: Sean Mullins of Baker Tilly and Simon Bedford of UK Trade & Investment
Perfect your plan & executive summary and find out where to go from there onto the international stage

20 April – Management Teams
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wellington Street, Leeds. LS1 4DL
Speakers: Tim Edwards of BTG McInnes Corporate Finance and Investor to be confirmed.
What an investor will look for in a successful team. What lessons can you learn and how can you adapt?

05 May – Intellectual Property Rights & Wrongs
Venue: Walker Morris. Kings Court, 12 King Street, Leeds. LS1 2HL
Speakers: Chris Gibbs of Haseltine Lake and Patrick Cantrill of Walker Morris
Learn how to protect your new idea, plus how to develop and enforce an IP strategy

11th May – Effective Negotiation Skills
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wellington Street, Leeds. LS1 4DL
Speaker: James Butcher of Ford Campbell Freedman
Discover key issues and skills to seal that deal!

18 May – Presentation Skills
Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wellington Street, Leeds. LS1 4DL
Speaker: Jon Hammond, The Catapult Group
The Secrets of Influencing and persuading investors

08 June – How to do a deal – Money, Valuations & Structures
Venue: Clarion Solicitors, Britannia Chambers, 4 Oxford Place, Leeds, LS1 3AX
Speakers: Richard Feltham of Garbutt & Elliott and Christian Hunt of Clarion Solicitors
An investor wants to invest in your business, but what next? Find out the deal process leading to your goal!

Register online today www.connectyorkshire.org/events