Topics in Corporate Finance

Recommended Prerequisites

Corporate Finance

Teaching Methods

The course employs cases and problems as well as classroom lectures and discussions. We will make use of international as well as domestic examples. Each student will be expected to participate actively in class discussions. A written project will be due by the end of term.

Learning Outcomes

Students taking this course should expect to learn the nature and techniques of financial management in listed companies. They will gain skills financial management. They will learn, through seminar discussions and a hands-on case study on raising funds, financial restructurings and risk management. In the end the goal is to apply the state-of-the-art techniques often used by finance directors and investment bankers.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Financial Structures

Bank Financing

Market Financing

Banking and Investor Relationships

Agency problems in listed companies

Corporate restructurings - Acquisitions

Corporate restructurings  - Divestitures

Corporate restructurings  - Recapitalizations and Turnaround financing during credit crunches

Distributions to shareholders

Company valuations

Corporate ratings and risk management.

Managing distressed investments

Assessment Methods

Avaliação
Class participation - 10% Project - 30% Written Final Exam - 60%: 10.0%
Project: 30.0%
Exam: 60.0%

Bibliography

Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw-Hill, New York. (Latest edition)

Mark Largan, International Corporate and Investment Banking - Practice and Law, Institute of Financial Services,Canterbury, UK. (Latest edition).

Michael Blatz et al, Corporate restructuring, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2006