We found an interesting event for founders who are raising funds and want to understand more about investment term sheets in Malaysia.
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How do you decide which investor to partner with?
How to deal with ‘pushy’ investors?
What is the first thing to do when you received the investment term sheet by an investor?
Join Izwan as he shares other common dilemma faced by founders when it comes to negotiating and dealing with investment term sheets in Malaysia.
The investment term sheet is the first time that you will see the terms on which an investor is prepared to invest in your company. Although there is no single format (term sheets can be very short and general or very detailed too), the commercial and investment terminologies can be confusing. There is often time pressure to agree on terms to receive funding. As an early-stage entrepreneur or founder, it can be easy to misunderstand the other side’s intentions and potentially waste valuable time and resources (on both sides!).
Participants: The workshop aims at founders and management teams approaching an early-stage funding round.
Topics to be covered
Timing: when the term sheet is produced
Overview of investment term sheets
Help founders to understand the investor’s requirements
Identify key commercial provisions (what has been omitted as well as the legal implications of what has been included)
Terminologies: interpreting the investment and commercial terms used
Contents: what should be in a term sheet – and the differences of the terms found in a seed round compared to a pre-series A round
Investor’s protection: The investor’s perspective and mechanisms employed to protect the investors’ interests
Scope for negotiation and protection of founders’ interests
Key terms for any founder to focus on
Tune in with Izwan and together we discover some useful legal tips, along with a sharing session on lessons learned to help you get your company off the ground.
The session is complimentary.
About The Speaker
Izwan Zakaria is an experienced corporate/commercial and technology lawyer with over a decade of legal experience in commercial matters. He is the managing partner of Izwan & Partners, a commercial, technology and startup law firm in Kuala Lumpur with over a decade of legal experience in corporate law.
Izwan has direct experience in acting for online and digital businesses like equity crowdfunding, peer to peer lending, ecommerce, and robo advisory platforms and other disruptive technologies.
His involvement in the technology sector also extends to advising fintech clients on compliance matters relating to regulatory developments in the industry as set out by the Central Bank and the Securities Commission. Izwan has experience in venture capital fundraising having acted for startups and investors across sectors such as technology, media, e-commerce, fintech, fashion and agritech. Izwan & Partners is a member of the Fintech Association of Malaysia
Izwan is an active contributor in the Malaysian startup ecosystem, where he regularly mentors early stage entrepreneurs and speaks at events on compliance and fundraising matters. He is a mentor at Selangor Accelerator Programme (a Selangor state government led accelerator programme) and Founder Institute (a pre-seed start-up accelerator with a presence in over 180 cities worldwide) and Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise (raiSE) (a Singapore based social enterprise enabler and venture fund). Recently, Izwan has also been listed as one of the ‘Top 30 People to Watch in the Business of Law’ by the Asia Law Portal.
Izwan is also a regular writer at the Startup Law Blog, a legal blog covering topics affecting early-stage entrepreneurs and founders in Malaysia, such as fundraising, compliance, dealing with investors, etc.