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Advanced strategy for crossing an expert, including how to make the expert’s opinions seem unreasonable or unsupported, how to undermine their credibility, and how to adapt your cross after the expert’s direct.

An overview of business valuation for lawyers. Covers the time value of money, key definitions of value (including market value, fair value and enterprise value), and the three main valuation approaches: income-based methods such as discounted cash flow, market-based methods such as comparables and precedent transactions, and asset-based approaches.

Discusses the types of information that parties put in schedules, and why schedules and exhibits clauses are used in agreements. Also looks at a sample clause.

Covers strategies for excellent client service, including how to understand your client's role, structure clear advice, stay responsive, and build trust.

An introduction to public offerings and private placements. Includes explanations of the most common types of private and public deals, such as IPOs, follow-on offerings, secondary offerings, Reg D offerings, Rule 144 and 144A offerings.

Checklist for substantive review of legal authorities in a brief, format of legal and record citations, common mistakes, and when in the drafting process to prevent errors.

Covers due diligence for venture finance deals and the main economic and control rights negotiated in venture finance term sheets, plus how to make key calculations such as cap tables, pro forma cap tables, prices per share, pro rata rights, note conversions, dividends, and liquidation preferences.

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.

Explains the main documents and key provisions in M&A deals, and provides an overview of the M&A deal process from start to finish. This track also explains the structures of M&A deals including asset and stock sales, direct mergers, and forward and reverse triangular mergers.

Rules, procedures, tips and strategic considerations for taking and defending expert depositions. This track covers qualifying as an expert, expert and rebuttal reports, witness prep, questioning techniques, attorney-client privilege, and more.

An introduction to corporate restructuring practice, including how restructuring practice groups are organized, the roles of the key players, the types of restructuring transactions distressed companies may consider, and overviews of Chapter 11 cases and 363 sales.

An introduction to the corporate form, the four stages of a corporation’s life cycle—startup, growth, maturity, and decline—and key stages of corporation formation, including incorporation, organization, and capitalization, as well as the biggest governance issues faced by corporations at each stage and an overview of the role lawyers typically play at each stage.