MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (M&A)
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Offering an intensive introduction to the complex world of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), this course will form the foundation in strategy, regulation, finding a deal, corporate valuation, and more. You will learn about buyer strategies, how M&A can increase business value, and how to start the acquisition process, as well as identify successful acquisitions. The material identifies the types of corporations most likely to be M&A players and the types of corporations most likely to be M&A targets. Delegates will learn the approach, characteristics, and process for successful Sell-side and Buy-Side M&A transactions.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By completely attending this course, participants will be able to:
- Compare and contrast build and buy strategies
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of acquiring a public company
- Identify the main players in M&A transactions
- Recognize the common motivations for acquisitions and the reasons many are unsuccessful.
- Identify the methods of structuring a business acquisition.
- Evaluate the intrinsic and relative valuation methods for target companies.
NOTE
This course requires the use of laptops with Excel 2016/2019/365. Delegates must bring their own laptops with Windows-based Excel fully installed.
TARGET COMPETENCIES
- M&A characteristics and organizational structures: Goals and investment objectives of various M&A investments
- Advantages, risks, expected returns, and costs of M&A activities
- The M&A process for both Buy-Side and Sell-Side transactions
University students studying finance or accounting and looking to broaden the scope of their M&A background, Professionals looking to move into corporate finance, Finance professionals looking for a refresher, Anyone who wants to learn about corporate finance.
This introductory course primarily relies on lecture, class discussion, and Wiley’s Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, and M&A textbook, although we also utilize in-class individual and group exercises to illustrate theory and practice relevant to financial decision-making regarding Mergers & Acquisitions. Class participants should bring a laptop to the course, preferably with Excel, and should have a basic familiarity with the workings of Excel software. Basic uses of Excel will be reviewed in class. A limited number of more advanced calculations will be explained in detail during the class.
