Do you know the difference between the role of a director and a shareholder?

Do you know what legal and financial duties you owe as a director of a company?

How do you deal with a conflict of interests?

Why do you need to have board minutes?

Do you know the pros and cons of different routes to finance and how to ensure you don’t inadvertently close doors to funding?

Sue Staunton, from accountancy firm James Cowper Kreston, and Nicola McConville from law firm Taylor Vinters, part of the Mishcon de Reya Group, are both hugely experienced in working with founding teams from the formation process, through various funding rounds and ultimately to exit. In exploring these topics, illustrated with lots of war stories along the way, they are ideally placed to help you spot red flags and avoid red herrings when laying the foundations for your entrepreneurial journey.