Corporate Finance Presentations

The corporate finance team at Garbutt & Elliott are holding a series of informative and practical breakfast presentations in June at our offices in Leeds and York.  These will focus on two key areas important to many owner-managed and family owned businesses, namely, business valuation techniques and management buy- outs/buy-ins.  Each workshop will last one hour with ample time for questions

Richard Feltham Corporate Finance Director		Russell Turner Corporate Finance Director

What is my business worth? - Business valuation techniques:

• Business valuation methods
• Actual sales prices achieved by sector
• Case studies from recent sales
• Negotiating techniques
• The attitude of investors

Leeds -   5 June 2008, 8.45 - 10am
York -   12 June 2008, 8.45 - 10am

I'm looking at the options for selling my business? - Management buy-outs and buy-ins:

• When are MBO’s/MBI’s most appropriate?
• Appraising management skills
• Case studies of recent MBO’s/MBI’s
• Raising finance (credit crunch)
• Pitfalls & ‘must do’

Leeds - 19 June 2008, 8.45 - 10am
York -   26 June 2008, 8.45 - 10am

For further details or to book your place please contact Rebecca Green by email at rmgreen@garbutt-elliott.co.uk or by telephone on 01904 464100.

	From left to right, David Dickson, Managing Director and Craig Manson, Director both from Garbutt & Elliott with John Tucker, Director of The International Centre for Families in Business

Family Business Conference
Thursday 10th April 2008
Hazlewood Castle, near Tadcaster

1st speaker

'Successful family businesses' - Ensuring success in the next generation
Craig Manson, Director, Garbutt & Elliott.  Feedback on the Family Business Survey 2008.

2nd speaker

'Facing up to family conflict in a family business'
John Tucker, Director of The International Centre for Families in Business.

For further information about future events of this kind or to receive a copy of the survey results, please contact Rebecca Green at rmgreen@garbutt-elliott.co.uk

Legal Plus Seminar
Mergers and Acquisitions - the legal Sector
Tuesday 27th November 2007 at York Law College

There appears to have been an increase in merger activity created by the uncertainty in the legal services market following the Clementi and Carter Reviews. As part of a national initiative, Legal Plus, Garbutt & Elliott Chartered Accountants and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS),held a seminar addressing the topic of Mergers and Acquisitions in the legal sector.

The seminar was CPD accredited, Craig Manson of Garbutt & Elliott presented at the event alongside Ian Appleby of RBS. The topics covered included:

• Strategic issues
• Practical/cultural issues
• Taxation issues
• Funding
• Practice valuations

Speaker profiles:
Craig Manson, Director, Garbutt & Elliott

• Member of LegalPlus Group
• Responsible for all Garbutt & Elliott legal sector clients
• Member of the ICAEW’s special interest group on solicitors

Ian Appleby, Manager, Professional Practices, Commercial Banking, RBS

• Legal sector specialist relationship manager
• Accredited by the Law Society as a Lexcel Consultant
• Experienced in assisting legal firms merge
• Working with firms converting to LLP status

Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

	All that Jazz: Left to Right , Kirstyn Pollard, The Hope Trust, Nigel Shaw, Trusts and Estate Planning Director, Richard Green, Audit Director Richard Feltham, Corporate Finance Director.

Live Jazz entertainment from the Dixieland Jazz Quartet, BBQ lunch & charity auction
Nigel Shaw, Trusts & Estate Planning Director comments "We were delighted to be able to host this event for Kirstyn and The Hope Trust team, after the success of The Hope Ball we wanted to try and make a contribution ourselves by putting on a lunchtime event for clients and in the process raise some funds for a very good cause. In the end we raised over £2,000 for The Hope Trust and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their generosity."

About The Hope Trust
Gynaecological cancer is the world’s fourth biggest cancer killer of women, with 1.2 million being diagnosed worldwide each year. Often diagnosed too late for effective treatment, ovarian cancer is the most common and most fatal of these gynaecological cancers in the UK claiming the lives of 5,000 out of the 7,000 women diagnosed with the disease each year.

The Hope Trust was formed after the mother of one of the trustees was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Shocked by the lack of awareness of the symptoms of this disease among both the public and GP’s, the trustees are determined to raise general awareness and generate funds to help save women’s lives.

90% of The Hope Trust’s proceeds are donated to The Eve Appeal, which supports a world leading programme dedicated to funding research into the detection, prevention and treatment of ovarian cancer. The remaining 10% of the proceeds are donated equally to Oncology Research Trust Fund (ORTF) and Haematology, Oncology Day Unit Trust Fund (HODU) at Airedale General Hospital. To find out more about the Hope Trust visit www.thehopeball.com