Certificate in Investment Banking Dubai

Course details

Certificate in Investment Banking, Business Valuation, Deal Structuring, Cash flow Analysis, LBO Analysis & Merges and Acquisitions

This is a practical 5-day training in Investment Banking M&A and the main topics are: valuation, leveraged buyouts (LBO's) and mergers & acquisitions (M&A's).

The training mainly focusses on giving the participant hands on tools to build financial models in excel to determine the value of a company on 1) a stand-alone basis, 2) in a LBO situation and 3) in a buy-side M&A scenario.

In the training we will look at different valuation techniques to calculate "enterprise value" like: 

1) Comparable companies analysis, 

2) Precedent transaction analysis, 

3) Discounted cash flow analysis (DCF), 

4) LBO analysis

5) Buy-side M&A analysis.

And we will look at different techniques to get from "enterprise value" to the "value of the shares" taking (adjusted) net debt into account.

The training is very practical in a sense that the trainer will explain the concepts first and will then apply them in class to real life companies with the participants. With all the calculations "Microsoft excel" is used to build the needed financial models.

This training is meant for analysist and associates from international investment banks. Moreover, the training is meant for analysts and consultants in: M&A, private equity, venture capital and strategy. In addition, the training is meant for accountants, tax lawyers, bankers in credit analysis, financial managers, CFO's etc.

During the training will be focussed on international companies listed on the stock exchange. But the valuation techniques are also applicable to (non-listed) private firms.