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Howard Kennedy is a leading law firm providing a full range of services to a well-established national and international client base. The firm acts for major corporate organisations, public and private companies, financial institutions and private individuals, and are known as a can do.

Established over 23 years ago, Howden Asset Management is now the largest specialist insurance broking team in your sector. Our strength lies in our team, which delivers the best possible outcome for our clients by expertly applying their industry and product knowledge in a streamlined and transparent way while simultaneously being supported by an extraordinary group on an international scale.

Our team is made up of over 55 dedicated experts in London with over 500 years of combined industry experience servicing a book of over 2,000 clients. Across the Asset Management team and wider Howden Group, we have experts that can deliver multi-product and bespoke insurance solutions to help you protect yourself, your business and your employees.

Infinity offers a range of services, including Fund Services, Regulatory Umbrella Hosting, and Corporate Advice.
We take a hands-on approach, combining professionalism with flexibility to create tailored solutions for a wide range of regulated entities. With a wealth of experience in regulated activities and working with different types of entities, SEIS/EIS structures, and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), we know how to navigate this space. Our leadership team all started in corporate finance advisory roles before moving into fund management, where we’ve raised, invested, and exited numerous funds. This background allows us to assist through every stage of a funds life cycle—from starting out and dealing with regulatory aspects to a successful exit.

Through our Regulatory Hosting (Umbrella) solution, we help entities operate safely within a regulated environment, supported by our knowledgeable team.

At Infinity, we offer a full suite of services, from fund management and regulatory hosting to consultancy, compliance, accounting, and legal support. This mix of expertise has helped us build a solid international reputation for delivering high quality, comprehensive solutions.

With solid investment and asset management experience and strong governance, we work closely with our partners and clients to add value.

Our journey started when we identified that the process of assessing affordability for customers in debt was broken and causes significant damage to people’s lives, their mental health, their relationships and their life prospects. Problem debt is a growing ‘societal disease,’ with 2.5 million people having considered committing suicide due to their debts during the pandemic. Growing chat-bot usage to tackle this problem is causing customers frustration, as the outcomes and support they obtain from this is inconsistent.

Inicio AI has built a next gen conversational AI driven affordability tool that helps customers in debt complete an Income & Expenditure (I&E) assessment.

We use next generation conversational AI to guide a user through the I&E form when and how it suits them. More customers are able to complete this usually tricky process as they get the support they need from a virtual assistant which avoids the shame they experience when explaining their situation to another human. Our solution ensures higher quality data, preventing errors and fraud and can reduce agent costs by up to 90%, so it is also commercially viable.

Intelligent Partnership is the UK’s leading provider of education and insights on alternative investments. They deliver CPD accredited research, training and events to a community of financial services and investment professionals. They publish the annual EIS industry report and organise EIS masterclass events to promote best practice when advising in this area.

IFAs and Wealth Managers make up the majority of their 3,500 subscribers, all of whom are interested or active in alternative investments. Their aim is to increase awareness and engagement amongst intermediaries, providing them with the tools and information they need to speak knowledgeably with their clients about the whole investment universe.

IQ’s initial investments range from £0.5m to £5m in disruptive deep tech companies capable of dominating their global markets. We invest at Seed and Series A across all sector verticals, including generative AI, advanced engineering and novel materials, space-tech, quantum hardware and algorithms, cyber and data security and synthetic biology. We are also able to support founders with our extensive global connections.

Irwin Mitchell is one of the largest full-service legal advisory firms in the UK. Our national corporate team assist at every stage of a business’ life cycle from formation, expansion by acquisition, strategic alliances such as joint ventures, capital raising and ultimately a sale or other exit event.

When the government announced the SEIS initiative in 2012, Jenson Funding Partners LLP (JFP), was founded by the team behind Jenson Solutions Limited, Paul Jenkinson and Sarah Barber. As an appointed representative of Foresight Group, JFP launched the Jenson Seed EIS Fund to provide start-ups with the level of financial and operational support normally only available to much larger businesses.

Raising £5.5 million in the first fund iteration, JFP has closed 4 funds and now manages more than £14 million, which has been invested in just under 100 companies.

In 2015 JFP, recognising that the SEIS investee company portfolio was maturing, started raising funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to provide follow on funding to its more successful companies. To date the EIS, combined with the syndicated investors, has invested over £5 million, and raised over £5 million of debt facilities.

We now have a combined evergreen SEIS and EIS Fund open for investment. The Fund aims to target exciting new innovative and disruptive technologies to be nurtured alongside existing investment opportunities that require follow on investment to fully exploit commercialisation of a proven business model.

• At Jerroms Miller, we provide specialist tax advice tailored to a wide range of business tax scenarios. We collaborate with accountants, tax advisors, solicitors, and their clients.
• Our expertise encompasses succession planning, employee ownership trusts, employee incentivisation, reorganisations and reconstructions, transaction tax, and venture capital tax reliefs.
• Daphne Hemingway leads a dedicated VAT advisory team, bringing a wealth of experience in all aspects of VAT, including business disposals, property transactions, and disputes with HMRC.
• Our Knowledge Hub offers events, insights, and a Technical Forum. Director Nick Wright also hosts ‘The Tax Hour’ podcast.

Nick Wright, Director at Jerroms Miller has written a number of papers on Enterprise Investment Scheme’s (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme’s (SEIS) for Tolley’s Taxation. Additionally, our team regularly delivers lectures on EIS and SEIS, sharing our expertise and knowledge. We are proud to support our clients with EIS and SEIS, ensuring they receive the most up-to-date and relevant tax advice.