M&A for Management Consultants & Business Analysts

What is the aim of this course?Consulting firms are hired very often to help with Mergers & Acquisitions. Those projects are difficult as you have to deliver results fast and you have to deal with many stakeholders. You not only have to help select potential targets, and model businesses in Excel, but also you will have to estimate the potential benefits of M&A, the value of the firm, and forecast the development of the acquired firms. In this course, I will teach how to perform fast and efficiently different types of analyses during M&A projects.In the course you will learn the following things:What kind of analyses you may have to do during the M&A projectHow to Select Potential Targets for M&A using ExcelHow to create a financial model in Excel for M&A purposesHow to estimate the value of the M&A targetHow to estimate potential synergies coming from the M&A processHow to conduct commercial due diligenceWhat kind of market research tools you can use during due diligenceThis course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest firms from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried out or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated a total of 2 billion in additional EBITDA. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who now are Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Compan