Course overview
This course provides students with a basis for understanding mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring in the framework of strategic planning issues facing managers in all companies, small and large. Topics covered include the strategic rationale for business combinations, both theory and practice; transaction structuring and financing; takeover tactics and defence; valuation and pricing of targets; and other forms of corporate restructuring, including private equity, LBOs and divestitures.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the takeover process, including planning, valuation, deal structuring, and takeover tactics; and how they should be employed.
- Apply valuation models, including DCF and comparable company analysis, to value, structure, and negotiate a deal.
- Describe and evaluate alternative corporate restructuring strategies.
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