Mergers and Acquisitions Course, Warsaw School of Economics, Spring 2010
Mariusz-Jan Radło, PhD mjradlo(at)sgh.waw.plAim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of:
- M&A and its role in corporate restructuring strategies;
- business valuation techniques and how financial modeling methods can be applied to valuing various types of business combinations;
- value creation (or destruction) as a result of corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, etc.;
- takeover tactics and defenses;
- the importance of understanding assumptions underlying business valuations;
- a highly practical “planning based” approach to managing the acquisition process;
- challenges related to each phase of the M&A process;
- the pros and cons of alternative deal structures.
- Exam
- Acquisition Plan
- Case study presentations
- Class participation/assignments
TEXTBOOK:Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Fifth Edition: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series) (Hardcover), by Donald DePamphilis, Elsevier, London, 2010.
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