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See all 366A framework for understanding your private equity client’s business in order to help protect their interests. This course discusses what PE clients are concerned with during three stages of an investment—the acquisition phase, the holding period, and the divestment phase. It looks at valuing a target, maximizing returns, operational improvements, and exit strategies.
Tips and tricks to help you work more efficiently in Excel.
The income statement shows whether and how a company made or lost money over an accounting period. This course describes the income statement and the common classifications of revenue and expenses you’ll see on it. It also explains different measures of profitability such as net income, EBIT and EBITDA.
How a company authorizes its actions, including how to determine when board and stockholder approval is needed, how approvals can be obtained, the difference between resolutions, consents, and minutes, and how to determine the voting threshold needed for an approval.
An examination of confidentiality agreements and their use in private M&A deals. The course includes a detailed walkthrough of a sample NDA, explaining each provision’s importance and how it impacts the respective parties.
Explains how to take feedback in a way that supports growth, builds resilience, and strengthens working relationships. Covers how to listen with an open mind, ask clarifying questions, and identify practical takeaways—even when the feedback is vague, unexpected, or hard to hear.
Curated course lists for self-paced learning, with CLE available in most MCLE states.
See all 61How to draft key sections of your brief persuasively, structure and present arguments and facts clearly, and prepare supporting motion documents.
An introduction to the document review and production process, privilege and work product protection, and litigation holds.
An introduction to various aspects of two advanced M&A concepts found in acquisition agreements – disclosure-schedule-updates provisions and the concept of defining “Fraud” in fraud carve-outs. This track covers drafting and negotiating tips, buyer and seller perspectives, and market trends information from the ABA M&A Committee’s 2022-23 Private Target Deal Points Study.
This program covers the structure of private equity funds, key deal types, how PE firms approach transactions, and the differences between strategic M&A and Private Equity M&A.
Covers key financial and accounting concepts and how they apply in specific legal practice areas, including M&A, litigation, finance, securities, emerging companies, bankruptcy, and real estate.
Key strategies and procedures for defending a corporate deposition. This track covers responding to a corporate deposition notice, selecting and preparing the corporate witness, deposition objections, protective orders, confidentiality designations, and more.