Mastering Mergers and Acquisition Training

The program is designed for all those who need to understand the M and A market and how transactions are structured. Its aim is to provide, to explain the M and A process for both public and private transactions and to identify why most deals fail and only some are successful. It focuses on the M and A strategies and the impact on the procedures, due diligence issues and a thorough evaluation of the technical and matrix driven decision trees one has to work through when dealing with potential transactions.

By attending this programme, you:

• Understand the rationale of M and A compared with organic growth or joint ventures
• Be aware of the critical importance of synergies
• Know how due diligence should be carried out to minimize problems
• Understand the alternatives for structuring and financing transactions
• Understand the process of buying and selling a private company
• Develop a Financial Model to evaluate opportunities

Course Agenda Highlights

• Rationale for corporate Growth by Take-over’s
• The Rationale for specific transactions: Synergies and Benefits
• Due Diligence Friendly and Hostile Deals
• Planning for M and A
• Structuring Transactions: Valuing and Financing the Transaction
• Post-merger integration
• How Does the Integration Process Affect Value Creation?
• Post-merger integration: lessons to be learned
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Public Company Take-overs
• Public Offers the Rules
• Public Offers: the Timetables
• Public Offers: Bidder Strategies and Tactics (recommended and hostile bids) Public Offers: Target Strategies and Tactics (hostile bids)
• Private Transactions: Setting the scene
• Key aspects (acquisition versus disposing)
• Private Transactions: the 4 Key Stages (sell-side)
• Private Transaction the documentation

For Whom

Directors, Accountants, Auditors, and other Management staff who perform related functions in the public and private sectors including Banks, Oil Companies, Trading organizations, Government Ministries, Parastatals, Agencies, Commissions, Local Governments, etc.