Corporate Restructuring and Valuation Strategies
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Corporate Restructuring and Valuation Strategies
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Analyze corporate restructuring strategies including M&A and LBOs.
Apply valuation techniques to assess firm value and deal impact.
Evaluate capital structure changes and financial performance outcomes.
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May 2026
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There are 10 modules in this course
Master corporate financial restructuring and learn how organizations transform their capital structure to improve performance and create shareholder value. Analyze mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and valuation techniques used in real-world finance.
This course provides a comprehensive and practical approach to understanding corporate restructuring strategies. You will explore management buyouts, acquisition financing, leveraged recapitalization, and insolvency frameworks, building strong analytical skills in corporate finance. You will learn how to apply valuation techniques, interpret financial models, and evaluate restructuring decisions based on their impact on earnings, capital structure, and firm value. The course also covers merger financing, EPS impact, and takeover strategies used in competitive corporate environments. Real-world case studies, including major corporate mergers, help you connect theory with practical application. You will also analyze market concentration, free cash flow valuation, and global restructuring frameworks. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently evaluate complex corporate transactions and apply restructuring strategies, preparing you for roles in investment banking, corporate finance, consulting, and strategic management.
This module introduces the core concepts of corporate financial restructuring and management buyouts (MBOs). Learners explore the management buyout process, different buyout structures, funding sources, and valuation considerations used in corporate ownership transitions.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 66 minutes
- Introduction to Financial Restructuring•5 minutes
- Management Buyout Process•5 minutes
- Types of Management Buyout•6 minutes
- MBO Structure and Funded•8 minutes
- Sources of MBO Funding•5 minutes
- Investors for Investing•9 minutes
- Considering a Management Buyout•5 minutes
- Criteria for Buyout•4 minutes
- Valuations and Price•9 minutes
- Types and Sources of Finance•7 minutes
- Numerical Examples on Management•4 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Introduction to Financial Restructuring•10 minutes
- Financing the Management Buyout•10 minutes
- Valuation Basics in Buyouts•10 minutes
- Graded - Foundations of Financial Restructuring & MBOs•30 minutes
This module focuses on practical financial calculations used in buyout evaluation. Learners explore acquisition price calculations, capital gains implications, and financial distress indicators that influence restructuring decisions.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 64 minutes
- Scenarios of Examples•9 minutes
- Capital Gain of Investement•4 minutes
- Calculating the Acquisition Price•4 minutes
- Summary on Buyout•9 minutes
- Bankruptcy and Restructuring•3 minutes
- Example of Financial Distress•5 minutes
- Concept of Insolvency•6 minutes
- Negative Equity of Insolvency•6 minutes
- Filing for Bankruptcy•3 minutes
- Bankruptcy Liquidation•8 minutes
- Numerical Calculations on Bankruptcy•5 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Practical Buyout Calculations•10 minutes
- Financial Distress & Insolvency•10 minutes
- Bankruptcy Fundamentals•10 minutes
- Graded - Valuation & Buyout Calculations•30 minutes
This module examines insolvency modeling and creditor priority frameworks used in distressed corporate situations. Learners analyze bankruptcy prediction models, liquidation calculations, and repayment hierarchies.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 54 minutes
- Z Score Model•6 minutes
- Absolute Priority Rule•2 minutes
- Flow Based Insolvency•8 minutes
- Type of Claim Remaining•5 minutes
- Salvage Calculations•7 minutes
- Example on APR Calculation•5 minutes
- Calculating the Mortgage Bond•6 minutes
- Example on Mortgage Bond•4 minutes
- Reorganizing the Unsecured Debt•5 minutes
- Funding Merger and Acquisitions •4 minutes
- Learning Methods of Payments•3 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Bankruptcy Analysis Models•10 minutes
- Liquidation & Claim Calculations•10 minutes
- Debt Reorganization•10 minutes
- Graded - Insolvency Modeling & Priority Rules•30 minutes
This module explores financing structures used in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Learners evaluate stock transactions, share exchange ratios, EPS impacts, and financing determinants affecting merger outcomes.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 56 minutes
- Stock Swap Options•9 minutes
- Example of Share Exchange Ratio•4 minutes
- Analyzing on Impacting on EPS•2 minutes
- Example on Impacting on EPS•3 minutes
- EPS and Post Merger•5 minutes
- Calculating the Total Earning•6 minutes
- Assumption on Increasing EPS•5 minutes
- Financing Decisions and Tab Methods•3 minutes
- Determinants of M and A Financing Decisions•4 minutes
- Learning Financing Options•9 minutes
- External Commercial Borrowings•5 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Stock Transactions in M&A•10 minutes
- EPS & Earnings Effects•10 minutes
- Financing Determinants•10 minutes
- Graded - M&A Payments & EPS Impact•30 minutes
This module examines the HP–Compaq merger as a real-world corporate restructuring case study. Learners analyze share valuation, shareholder tax implications, market reactions, and capital structure impacts.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 50 minutes
- Case Study on HP and Compaq•5 minutes
- Calculating the Outstanding Shares•2 minutes
- Tax for Compaq Shareholders•8 minutes
- Reaction on Market•7 minutes
- Stock Payment Options•6 minutes
- Outcomes with Cash Payments•6 minutes
- Impact on Capital Structures•5 minutes
- Concept of Levaraged Recapitalization•4 minutes
- Assest and Liability Restructuring•3 minutes
- Too High and Low Leverage•1 minute
- Diagram for Leverage Recapitalization•3 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Strategic Deal Structure•10 minutes
- Payment Methods & Capital Impact•10 minutes
- Asset & Liability Restructuring•10 minutes
- Graded - Case Study – HP & Compaq•30 minutes
This module focuses on leveraged recapitalization and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). Learners examine debt financing strategies, junk bonds, EBITDA-based valuation, and debt structure evaluation.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 51 minutes
- Purpose of Firm for Levaraged Recapitalization•2 minutes
- Ways to carryout Leveraged Recapitalization•2 minutes
- Leverage Share Repurchase•2 minutes
- Leverage Buy Outs•4 minutes
- Case Study on Leveraged Recapitalization•7 minutes
- LBO and Junk Bond Financing•10 minutes
- EBITDA Capital and Recapitalization•4 minutes
- Calculation for EBITDA Capital•5 minutes
- Analyzing on the Debt Structure•8 minutes
- Learning the Recapitalization Transaction•3 minutes
- Case Study on Sealed Air Corporation•5 minutes
4 assignments•Total 80 minutes
- Purpose & Strategy•10 minutes
- LBO Financing•10 minutes
- Debt Structure Analysis•30 minutes
- Graded - Leveraged Recapitalization & LBO•30 minutes
This module explores advanced recapitalization strategies through case studies. Learners evaluate transaction assumptions, financial statements, shareholder value analysis, and structural forms of mergers.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 68 minutes
- Case Study on Levearged Recapitalization•6 minutes
- Transaction for Levraraged Share and Dividend•4 minutes
- Transaction Assumption Examples•8 minutes
- Balance Sheet and the Income Statement•6 minutes
- Learning Valuation and Leverage•7 minutes
- Analyzing the Shareholder Level•4 minutes
- Calculating Dividend Per Share•6 minutes
- Concepts based on Mergers and Acquisitions•6 minutes
- Example on Mergers and Acquisitions•2 minutes
- Discussion on Parties to the Acquisitions•10 minutes
- Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Merger•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Recap Transactions & Assumptions•10 minutes
- Valuation & Shareholder Analysis•10 minutes
- M&A Structural Types•10 minutes
- Graded - Advanced Recapitalization Case Studies•30 minutes
This module introduces competition analysis and valuation techniques used in corporate acquisitions. Learners analyze market concentration, free cash flow metrics, and comparable company valuation methods.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 79 minutes
- Characteristics of Conglomerate Merger•9 minutes
- Bootstrap Earnings and its Example•6 minutes
- Bootstrap Earnings with Share•9 minutes
- Herfindalhl Hirschman Index•4 minutes
- Solution to Respective Market Share•4 minutes
- Imporatance of Free Cashflow•5 minutes
- Calculating the Negative Cashflow•4 minutes
- Comparable Companies Analysis•9 minutes
- Advantages and Disadvantages of CCA•12 minutes
- Cost of an Acquisition•9 minutes
- Accounting for Acquisitions•8 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Merger Types & Market Power•10 minutes
- Market Share & Cash Flow•10 minutes
- Valuation Methods•10 minutes
- Graded - Market Concentration & Valuation Techniques•30 minutes
This module explores acquisition accounting, takeover defense strategies, and value creation in corporate transactions. Learners examine goodwill calculations, corporate governance mechanisms, and synergy development.
What's included
11 videos4 assignments
11 videos•Total 60 minutes
- Calculating the Goodwill of Firm•5 minutes
- Divestitures and Restructuring•6 minutes
- Taxes and Acquisition•5 minutes
- Comparable Transaction Analysis•6 minutes
- Process for Comparable Transaction•4 minutes
- Discussion on Coporate Charter•5 minutes
- Pre Offer takeover Defense Mechanism•5 minutes
- Post Offer takeover Defense Mechanism•7 minutes
- Learning Synergy and its example•3 minutes
- Generating value in synergy•7 minutes
- Acquisition of assets•6 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Goodwill & Divestitures•10 minutes
- Governance & Takeover Defense•10 minutes
- Synergy & Value Creation•10 minutes
- Graded - Transactions, Defense & Strategy•30 minutes
This module explores global corporate restructuring strategies and financing approaches. Learners examine restructuring frameworks, international case studies, and governance practices across different markets.
What's included
14 videos4 assignments
14 videos•Total 100 minutes
- Discussion on the benefits•10 minutes
- Reductions in capital needs•9 minutes
- Topic on corporate restructuring•4 minutes
- Various types of corporate restructuring•6 minutes
- Financial and Operational restructuring•5 minutes
- Corporate Restructuring in East Asia•7 minutes
- Securing Asset based lenders•6 minutes
- Mezzanine and Subordinated Debt•6 minutes
- Organic and Inorganic growth•7 minutes
- Choice of Corporate restructuring•8 minutes
- Corporate Control in Corporate restructuring•11 minutes
- UK findings in International Findings•6 minutes
- Canada findings in International Findings•4 minutes
- Focusing Strategic Alternatives•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Capital & Growth Strategies•10 minutes
- Global & Financing Perspectives•10 minutes
- Strategic Control & International Insights•10 minutes
- Graded - Strategic Corporate Restructuring & Global Perspectives•30 minutes
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