Equity Finance
What equity finance is and the major sources of equity finance provision
Shares and Shareholders
The advantages of selling shares in your company and the entitlements of an individual who buys shares
Grants- the basics
Finding a grant that suits your business and what makes a business eligible to receive one
Find support for inventors
Details of the key sources of help and advice available for inventors and innovative businesses developing ideas
Share Incentive Plans (SIPS)
A Share Incentive Plan (SIP) can help smaller, quoted companies reduce illiquidity, whilst alos offering a flexible way of incentivising staff
Floating on a stock market- your options
The pros and cons of taking a company public and how the flotation process works
Takeovers- How the rules are relevant to SMEs
A summary of the rules attached to takeovers from the growing business legal advisers, Stephenson Harwood
Trusts and the Finance Act 2006
Solid advice from the experts at Vantis
VCT- Due Diligence or Bust
With funding having returned to, and surpassed, the highs of 2001, VCTs have seen another boom time. Now, unless the VCT managers, undertake adequate due diligence, the rush to invest £500 million in AIM or unquoted companies could result in poor decision making, argues Philip Marsden, Director, Vantis Corporate Finance Limited
The Enterprise Management Incentive Scheme
Advice from Vantis Tax Ltd, a subsidery of Vantis Plc, regarding this tax effective reward mechanism for SMEs