Venture Capital Finance

Session 1: How Venture Capital Funds Operate

• Introduction to Venture Capital Training
• The European landscape for venture capital funds
• Developing a venture capital business plan:
  • Examples of plans
• The fundraising process and interaction with Limited Partners (LPs):
  • Examples of current fundraising
  • Legal, tax and technical documentation issues
• Assessing investment opportunities

Group exercise: evaluating a business pitch for venture funding. Sessions conclude with a review and discussion of the exercise.

Session 2: Structuring, Negotiating & Decision Making

• Session 2 of VC training begins with a review of Session 1
• Structuring the initial investment: equity or convertible?
• Negotiating the term sheet and founder participation

Exercise: evaluating the appropriate investment structure

• Follow on investment decisions, venture capital involvement in decision making and dilution impact from further funding rounds
• Planning for the exit and valuation methods
• This Venture Capital Finance course evaluates returns and performance metrics for the venture capital fund

An international advisory company owner and Managing Director delivers Venture Capital training at Redcliffe. Over the last 17 years, he has dedicated his career to advisory and development business valuation services to the corporate, banking and finance industries.

As a corporate finance valuation professional, he has real-life practical experience and extensive knowledge of corporate and structured finance in global financial markets.

Our venture capital course trainer is a Visiting Fellow in the M&A department and Programme Director at Executive Development, Sir John Cass Business School, London. He is a member of the Visiting Faculty at Fuqua Business School and has worked as an advisor to the Overseas Development Administration in the UK and EU PHARE and TACIS programmes throughout Europe and Russia.

This Venture Capital training specialist is an expert in corporate finance, M&A, corporate analysis and structured finance, asset securitisation, risk management, valuation, corporate credit processes, project finance and treasury management. He currently works with global corporate and banking clients in these areas, also acting as an Expert Witness for London law firms in respect of his areas of expertise. Working with an extensive list of global clients, he covers European, Middle East, African and Asian markets.

In the corporate market, he works with large clients, private equity firms and private investors alongside public sector companies such as the NHS and major law firms. VC training provides advisory and development business valuation services to these organisations, via relevant departments or to Senior Line Management.

Our expert is a well-known figure within various training and development companies and provides seminars across the world.

He has worked with several high-profile global investment banks, including as Managing Director of a subsidiary of Union Plc, a London merchant bank. Our venture capital finance course leader left this position in 1996 to form his own international advisory Company.

The list of financial institutions and corporates our specialist has worked with over recent years is extensive and includes:

• Allied Irish Bank
• Alpha Bank
• Bank of America
• Merrill Lynch
• Bank of China
• Barclays
• Emirates Bank
• E&Y,
• First Gulf Bank
• HBOS,
• HSBC
• HVB and many more

Participants attending this VC training are in knowledgeable hands.

Participants attending Redcliffe’s Venture Capital training course will master the following:

• How venture capital funds are established in the European market.
• The fundraising process and interaction with LPs.
• The many strategies available to venture capital fund investments.
• The full cycle of investment: the initial decision to invest, to follow-on development through series funding and exit of an investment.
• The performance metrics of a venture capital fund
• Delegates will understand the basic regulatory, tax and governance issues involved in running a venture capital fund.

Redcliffe Training's Venture Capital Finance Course suits all personnel involved in the venture capital process, such as:

• Investors
• Investment professionals
• High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI)
• Family offices
• Lawyers
• Advisers

This session is also ideal for entrepreneurs looking to raise venture capital funding. Also, government agencies and corporate entities looking to set up corporate venture funds will learn from VC training.

Venture Capital training explains how funds operate in the marketplace in Europe. It considers the establishment of the fund, the fundraising process from LPs and the investment process and operational decision-making within the fund by the GPs. We cover the full cycle of the investment process from origination to exit of the investment and include a review of the regulatory, tax and governance issues involved in running the fund.

Delivered by an individual with time-served industry experience, Redcliffe Training’s Venture Finance course ensures participants will obtain maximum value that can be immediately leveraged.