Georgina Wilkins is Head of IP Strategy at Hitachi Energy.  Over a number of years she has been involved in due diligence around IP before investing in or acquiring a tech business.

Georgina tells us how to build your IP portfolio and present it in due diligence to maximise your valuation.

• Do you understand what your investor/acquirer wants?
• Do you know what IP you have?
• Do you know its value?
• Does you IP align with the value in your business?
• What if you’ve done nothing with your IP?
• Is IP respected in your business in contracts with suppliers, customers, collaborators and employees?
• Do you manage unregistered IP?
• Have you understood and managed IP risks, in particular freedom to operate?  This is probably a bigger risk for the acquirer than it is to you.

The views Georgina expresses in the show are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of her employer, Hitachi Energy.