Corporate Finance Workshops
Our corporate finance courses are designed for M & A specialists, lawyers, and other due diligence professionals who wish to enhance their skills of strategy evaluation, pricing and deal negotiation.
M & A Negotiating Skills
This two-day workshop covers the fundamentals of negotiating, and provides an excellent platform for conducting M & A negotiations. Participants have opportunities to construct multiple deal packages (including price and contingent contracts), learn to negotiate in teams, and can practise their skills in a live business acquisition negotiating case study which we have used throughout the world over a number of years. Read more
This is a two-day workshop for experienced M & A negotiators, addressing some of the more complex negotiating issues such as multi-party negotiations, game theory, negotiating styles, constructing strong arguments, agent-principal relationships, leverage and much more.
The workshop includes a hands-on multi-party case study based on the acquisition of a beleaguered steel firm by a private equity firm. Read more
M & A Skills Workshop (including strategy evaluation)
We also offer an M & A deal management workshop which covers the core corporate finance skill set, and which follows two deals through a 3 to 5 day course, containing the following modules:
M & A valuation issues
- Valuation review exercise
- Choosing valuation methods and models
- Presenting value to clients
- Special valuation issues
Acquisition assistance
- Key features
- Strategy evaluation
- Assessing synergies
- Preparing a bid landscape
Disposal assistance
- Client acceptance process
- Information memoranda
- Bid management process
Negotiating assistance
- Negotiating fundamentals
- Countering negotiating ploys
- Preparation of two deal negotiations
- Hands-on negotiating practice in teams
- Learning debrief