Mergers and Acquisitions

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

The course covers major topics of mergers and acquisitions: economic drivers, financing, deal terms, anti-trust regulation, leveraged buyouts, and takeover defenses. This course is meant to familiarize students with institutional details of mergers and acquisitions and to present a variety of case situations in which corporate valuation, industry and financial analysis, strategic decision making, and financial contracting and design are practiced. Casework represents an integral part of this course and is used to challenge students to structure their own analysis of how corporate finance can be used to create value for shareholders. Prerequisite: MGT 6431. [2]