Emma Game, Partner at Wilson Sonsini in London, where she focuses on tax advice for high growth startups. In this discussion we talk about considerations CFOs in Tech need to keep front of mind.

We explore permanent establishment risks and learn when sales taxes and VAT might kick in. Taking the perspective of a UK based Tech business expanding internationally.

We highlight typical issues that can emerge in an acquisition process with insights on typical ‘red flag’ issues to be aware of.

Whilst Wilson Sonsini are a leading law firm in the US and UK, please keep in mind that none of this discussion constitutes legal advice.

In this episode, we talk to Albert Malikov, founder and CEO of Stacks.

He shares his view on the future of finance from the perspective of a former product lead at Uber and Plaid. In building Stacks he has leveraged that deep fintech and product-management background to automate and modernise month-end financial close.

We discuss challenges in scaling finance teams from those lurking inefficiencies sitting in finance teams, why AI can transform that area of work and how everyone in finance is expected to end up being a business partner in the end.

In this episode, we’re going to talk to Vivek Manipadam who both founded and runs the boutique M&A advisory firm Gemfield Partners.

Vivek shares lessons from his experience of M&A and funding rounds, with his acquisition experience being on both the sell side and the buy side. He works with leadership teams on exit readiness and appraising the buyer-universe. This episode is a great listen with some fascinating lessons on how well thought through information sharing can drive competitive tension and lead acquirers to trigger progression towards an acquisition.