Martin and Joan Reeve are a typical family, they own a family business and have two children, David & Lucy.  Lucy lives with her partner and has a child.  David is about to marry his girlfriend Rosie.  David & Lucy are also the beneficiaries of a family trust which was formed on the death of their uncle, Martin&rsquos brother Frank. 

This seminar will explore the steps that Martin and Joan can take to protect their family&rsquos wealth for the benefit of their children, grandchildren and future generations. 

The seminar will cover:
o Wills
o trusts
o dealing with the company shares
o insurance solutions
o pre-marital agreements
o cohabitation agreements and
importantly will explore how to raise these difficult issues with clients.

This seminar will be of interest to all those working with private clients.


Deborah Clark
Deborah Clark CTA is head of the Mills & Reeve Private Tax & Trust team in Manchester. She specialises in advising individuals on estate planning, in particular entrepreneurs for whom their business and private affairs blur.  During her 22 year career she has covered both personal and corporate tax work both in accountancy and legal practices. As a result her work is very varied encompassing wills, trusts, family investment companies, family charters, employee incentives and shareholders' agreements to name just a few areas.  Legal 500 describes her as "proactive and forward thinking" and has said &ldquoshe provides good communication skills and solutions in areas of changing complexity&rdquo.


Alison Bull
Alison Bull is team leader of the Mills & Reeve Family Law team in Manchester. She is a trained family mediator, accredited civil mediator and collaborative lawyer as well as a traditional family lawyer. She advises people experiencing family breakdown on all the legal implications, with particular expertise in the more complex cases, often involving family businesses, trusts, overseas assets and pensions. She mediates in cases where there are family-related issues, and particularly with couples with children who are separating, where they recognise the benefits of keeping communication lines open. She is known for her expertise in pre- and post-marital agreements. Alison is ranked as a band 1 leading individual in Chambers independent legal directory and &ldquo wins praise for offering &lsquohigh-quality advice - both legally and strategically&rsquo&rsquo &rdquo


Emma Holden
Emma has over 15 years&rsquo experience in Financial Services following completion of an MA in European Studies. She joined Dewhurst Torevell in 2000 and has been dealing with clients since this time to help them achieve their long term financial goals, including estate planning, wealth protection, tax mitigation and capital accumulation. Dewhurst Torevell are fully independent and Emma is able to make use of the full range of investment vehicles and planning opportunities. She is highly qualified for her industry holding the Advanced Financial Planning Certificate and is committed to a high level of on-going professional development.

Who should attend?
This session is for those who are registered with LinkedIn but are either reactive or inactive and is designed to help you make use of LinkedIn as a proactive business tool.

In this short session Will Kintish provides an effective overview of:
 - Relating LinkedIn (a social network) with face-to-face networking
 - Building a powerful profile
 - Be in control of your privacy using settings
 - Managing invitations who should you accept invitations from?
 - The courtesies and etiquettes of LinkedIn
 - Searching groups and companies
 - Detailed understanding of the advanced search button
 - Creating your personal action plan.

Ever wanted to know what managing partners really want from marketing?

How they see marketing developing in the future? Will marketers be expected to do more "hands on" client work? Or focus more on branding and reputation? What do managing partners feel is the best way for marketers to work with them - to keep them in touch and help them make decisions? What skills and behaviours do they want to see from their marketing teams?

Well, now's your chance to find out.

future pro.manchester have teamed up with the PM Forum in the North West?and assembed a panel of some of the leading managing and senior partners in the region to candidly answer the most pressing questions you and other marketers/business developers have.

Come along to the event and you can either ask questions yourself - or just listen to the answers to other's questions. It should be one of the most illuminating and useful events you get the chance to attend this year.

Current panel members include

Ian Brodie
Ian Brodie is the Managing Director of The Rainmaker Academy and one of the UKs leading writers and commentators on professional services marketing and business development. He was recently named by OpenView Labs as one of the "Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012" in their list of "25 of the most powerful thought leaders in the world of sales management, lead generation, and more". His website at

Joy Kingsley
Joy Kingsley joined JMW in 2010, in the role of Senior Partner, to assist with the continuing development of the firm.? Her particular areas of expertise are Management and Business Development.? Joy previously presided over the impressive growth of Pannone LLP as Managing Partner. Joy was named one of the Women of the Year 2010, she was named as one of the UKs top 100 lawyers by The Lawyer magazine, and one of the 10 most innovative lawyers in the UK by the Financial Times.

Nick Davenport
Nick Davenport is the Senior Partner for Turner Parkinson. He has almost 30 years experience in company commercial law and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs. His client relationships are second to none, with a number of his clients having worked with Nick from the start of his career.
Nick describes his interests as his family, golf and motor sport.?

Les Nutter
Les Nutter is the Managing Partner of Cassons,? responsible for the firm's marketing and new client services. He's the client relationship partner for a portfolio of clients and champion of the firm's client care policies. Les started his career as an articled clerk with the firm back in 1976 and thirty years later became managing partner. Les was recently voted the inaugural Accountancy Personality of the Year by the North West Society of Chartered Accountants. He sees his key role in Cassons as "setting the tone" for the f irm, and lists "conquering his fear of speaking in public" as his greatest achievement.


Jonathan Main
Jonathan Main was appointed as Senior Partner of the Liverpool office of PwC in 2010. Jonathan has been of head of VAT for the firm in the North West for the last five years, He also leads a newly established sustainability and environmental taxes team in the North West and is responsible for the promotion of PwC in the Liverpool area.Jonathan is an avid Liverpool fan and is a Samaritan based at the Southport & District branch.

Airport City at Manchester Airport is a project that has been in the national and local news for over 12 months. The culmination of this was when Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the masterplan at the Airport in January 2012. The project and immediate area was also granted Enterprise Zone status by the Government in March 2011 &ndash thus providing further opportunity to the whole initiative.

So what is Airport City all about and do you fully understand the extent of opportunity it provides?

It is a project of major regional importance and its impact on Manchester will be significant.

We have assembled an expert group of speakers to provide a detailed briefing on the project &ndash these include John Atkins who is the Director responsible for Airport City, and a leading member of Manchester Airport&rsquos overall development team, Phil Doyle from 5 Plus Architects, who led the master planning process throughout and Simon Bedford from Drivers Jonas Deloitte, who worked closely with the Airport City team on planning, funding and enterprise zone matters.

This key event will be chaired by Stephen Frood from Davis Langdon, who provided cost management advice throughout the master planning process.

This is an ideal event to really find out what is happening at Airport City &ndash a project that is going to be of major regional and national significance over the coming years.

John Atkins
John Atkins was named as Director of Airport City, the £650 million major Enterprise Zone development project at Manchester Airport, UK in 2011. His role also involves supporting the wider Greater Manchester Enterprise Zone as Programme Director and he works closely with Manchester City Council and other landowners to ensure the work programme delivers the most beneficial results for Greater Manchester. In ten years within the development business, John Atkins has been responsible for over £150m of new projects at all four of the airports operated by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) in Manchester, East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside.

Simon Bedford
Simon joined Drivers Jonas as Head of the Economic Development team in May 2008. Prior to joining, he was managing director of EKOS Consulting, responsible for overseeing all company operations and leading the management and development of the company&rsquos four UK offices. With over 20 years&rsquo experience in practice, Simon has spent significant periods of his career as a director of Jones Lang LaSalle and Planning Director at Building Design Partnership. He has also worked in the public sector for both Local Authorities and Urban Development Corporations.  He is an independent planning commissioner at the Greater Manchester Planning and Housing Commission. Simon is head of the Drivers Jonas Deloitte North West practice with responsibility for the firm&rsquos 80 strong team.  He is also part of the senior management team at Deloitte North West.


Phil Doyle
Phil is a Director and founder member of 5 Plus Architects &ndash a practice formed in 2010 and based in Manchester.  In his formative years Phil worked for Sheppard Robson in London and in 2000 he moved to his home city, Manchester, to set up Sheppard Robson&rsquos new office. He helped develop this office until in 2005 he founded HKR Manchester with his co Director Jon Matthews. HKR quickly developed an excellent reputation in the region and were named Consultant of the Year in the North by Property Week in 2008.


Stephen Frood
Stephen is a Director of Davis Langdon and is responsible for the running of the firm&rsquos Manchester Office.? The office comprises of over seventy Staff and Directors and is based at No 1 New York Street.? Stephen has worked in Manchester since 1994 when he led Davis Langdon&rsquos team on the MEN Arena project &ndash which is still the largest indoor arena in Europe. He has worked on other major local projects of significance &ndash including the Lowry in Salford, Manchester Central and is currently leading the Davis Langdon work on Manchester&rsquos Town Hall Transformation project which involves the Town Hall Extension, the Central Library and St Peter&rsquos Square.

On 1st March 2012, pro.manchester brings to you a one day news style conference with hosts Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler.

The conference will provide informed and challenging opinions on topics that are important to the economy and your business.

Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler will lead healthy debate throughout the day which will include key note speeches from a range of high profile speakers.

There will also be panel debates on a variety of subjects and the opportunity for delegates to interact with some of the UK's leading business experts in our designated networking area.


What's the format?
Keynote speeches and panel debates will cover crucial topics of the day:

• Challenges of the World Economy, problems in Europe and the USA
• Opportunities in China, Asia and the fast developing economies
• Growth in the UK economy and the importance of plan A and or Plan A+
• Meeting the fiscal challenge, can the government meet the fiscal targets if growth is so slow?
• Quantitative easing, what does it really do?
• Access to finance, role of the banks and private equity?
• Credit easing, is there an opportunity for SME bonds?
• In defence of Britain's banks, promoting the financial sector
• Economy, Prospects for growth, inflation, rates
• The Greater Manchester economy, why we think we can beat the squeeze
• The Greater Manchester LEP and the Growth Hub.

 To book please visit www.manchesterbusinessconference.co.uk

The UK Insurance market remains the largest in Europe and Greater Manchester and the North West remains one of the major UK insurance markets, employing in excess of 33,000 people.

The non-life insurance industry has seen significant change since the 1990s as profit and loss cycles, Insurer and broker consolidation and regulation have all played their part in shaping an industry, both locally and nationally, that bears little resemblance to the one that existed just 20 years ago.

What are the trends, what impact has this had on the non-life industry and what implications could this have for business consumers in the foreseeable future.

Attendees can also benefit from 25% off their first booking of a Bruntwood Red Rooms meeting space.

Sponsored by Pinsent Masons LLP

 

The pro.manchester Annual Lecture is back with an Exciting new Speaker.  Ian King, Business Editor of The Times will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating event.

During Ian's speech he will cover issues which are close to the heart of Manchester. There will also be time to put your own questions to Ian.

Topics will include:

-   The future for manufacturing and the part Manchester can play
-   Given governement insistence this sector should be revived
-   High Speed Rail London to Manchester (through the heart of Middle England)
 -  Is Manchester as de facto capital of the North of England, the best bet to close the productivity gap between North and South?

The event will take place at the offices of Pinsent Mason's in the heart of Spinningfields Manchester's financial and professional district , so come and join us for an interesting talk, a bite to eat and of course plenty of time for networking.

In Assocation with