Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring

Course details

This programme is designed for top management personnel responsible for charting company growth strategies and senior executives with identified role in strategy formulation and implementation, business development and finance. The target participants may have business unit, corporate or group level responsibilities

Objectives

• Holistic and integrated perspective of corporate development through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Sound understanding of the strategic and financial drivers of corporate growth through M&A.
• Understanding value creation through Mergers and acquisitions and restructuring
• Overall appreciation of the relevant regulatory issues and their implications for transaction structuring
• Understanding issues of due diligence and mitigation of transaction risks
• Integration of two businesses and the attendant problems.

Content

• Preparing for acquisition lead growth. Strategic underpinnings and competitive drivers of mergers, acquisitions, and other forms of restructuring transactions. Organizing for M&A led-growth; pre-merger planning.
• Target selection and evaluation. Valuation of the target.
• Negotiations, structuring the transaction. Tax and regulatory aspects and transaction structuring
• Due diligence the way to safe acquisitions
• Takeover defense, corporate governance and financial reporting dimensions
• Post acquisition integration