Online Office Hours with SEIS-GO: Securing SEIS/EIS Advance Assurance

What is it?

Our Online Office Hours are a series of one-to-one sessions with various experts from the legal and accounting sectors to support tech startup founders on their journey. In this one, participants will be able to engage directly with and receive personalised advice from Nancy Hawthorn, Founder & Legal Consultant at SEIS-GO. (The website is currently undergoing updates and will be up soon!)

Areas she can cover as part of the office hours include:

• Understanding SEIS or EIS criteria relevant to your company.
• A free preliminary assessment of your business's S/EIS eligibility.
• Preparing and submitting a successful S/EIS Advance Assurance application.
• How to optimize your pitch deck to meet the ‘risk to capital’ condition.
• Tips to prevent HMRC pushback or delays.
• Considerations for university spin-out companies / IP arrangements.
• Clarifying qualifying potential investor (controlling interest) criteria.
• Promoting your S/EIS eligibility to potential investors.

Who are SEIS-GO?

SEIS-GO was launched by Nancy Hawthorn with a vision to simplify S/EIS.SEIS/EIS eligibility is a critical part of attracting investment – yet working with an accountant or lawyer can make this an expensive, drawn-out process. Based in Scotland, SEIS-GO aims to simplify securing HMRC Advance Assurance. We offer hassle free, end-to-end application support at a very startup-friendly price point.

Our service provides extensive S/EIS expertise, fine-tuned application preparation and feedback, a fast turnaround, professionally handling HMRC correspondence and enabling startups to confidently and quickly secure S/EIS approval, taking an efficient, practical and friendly approach.We are driven by a passion to help entrepreneurs make this crucial step in the fundraising journey easy, unlocking both early-stage investment and long term growth.

Who is Nancy Hawthorn?

With over 3 years’ experience as a Senior S/EIS Consultant and SEIS Team Lead, Nancy specialises in preparing successful SEIS & EIS Advance Assurance applications, having worked with hundreds of founders to prepare S/EIS applications with a 98% success rate.She has extensive, in-depth expertise on the SEIS & EIS schemes having supported UK & international startups across all sectors, particularly those in tech, AI, health, finance, farming, energy, and university spin-out companies. Her specialism is complex SEIS & EIS applications, having led on 50+ HMRC pushbacks and brought 90% to a final approval. Her team won EISA awards in 2022 and 2023, having developed novel approaches to multi-layered patents, pivots in trade and cross-border group structures.Nancy has 1st in Law from The London School of Economics (2021) and a training contract offer from city law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills.

What can I expect?

In this 25-minute one-to-one session, you will receive direct, personalised advice from Nancy Hawthorn, Founder and Legal Consultant at SEIS-GO.

Where is this taking place?

This event will be taking place on Zoom. You can join a Zoom webinar from a desktop or mobile device. It is recommended to download the Zoom app prior to joining the event: https://zoom.us/support/download

Who will be there?

This is a private meeting between yourself/your team and Nancy Hawthorn, Founder and Legal Consultant at SEIS-GO.

Registration

Once you have registered to attend you will receive confirmation of your ticket. You will receive an email reminder prior to the event starting: it includes the link to join the event. At any point, you can also access the link to join via the dedicated Eventbrite Online Page linked to your ticket.

As places are extremely limited for these office hours, please only register once.

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