This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of mergers and acquisitions. It covers the building blocks of mergers and acquisitions; getting ready to buy or sell a company; previewing the generally accepted M&A process; financing M&A deals and working with M&A advisors; finding and contacting buyers and sellers; assuring confidentiality; creating and reviewing an offering document; and how to properly express interest in doing a deal.
During this interactive course, participants will learn to ensure successful first meetings between buyer and seller; an insider’s guide to M&A negotiating; the valuation and selling price and making or receiving an offer; the due diligence; the purchase agreement and what to expect on closing day; handling post-closing announcements and adjustments; the integrated buyer and seller; and the ten considerations prior to signing an LOI, the ten major M&A errors and how to avoid them and the ten possible ways to solve valuation differences.