Mergers & Acquisitions 1: Building the Business Case

Tutor: Andrew Hedley  CPD Hours: 26 hours  Duration: 3 months

Course Cost: £995

The first of three in a series which will help participants to chart a successful route through a merger or acquisition process.

This course equips law firm leaders with the knowledge needed to create a strategic business case for a merger or acquisition which will allow them to articulate the logic which suggests the merger route as the most appropriate option for their firm.

Acceptance of this business case is also the signal for a process of identifying and benchmarking potential merger candidates. This will be done on the basis of objective criteria which will enable the firm to achieve its ambitions. This course provides the tools by which this process can be undertaken and allows participants to create their own bespoke assessment model and documentation.

This course will help you to resolve these typical business problems:-

• Develop a clear rationale for a merger proposal
• Create an assessment framework
• Identify and evaluate potential merger partners

This course will give you the knowledge and tools needed to develop a business case to support a proposal to merge with, or acquire, another firm. It will also allow you to create an assessment framework against which potential merger or acquisition candidates can be identified and their relative fit evaluated, allowing a robust proposal to be presented.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create a merger business case linking back to the firm’s overall strategic objectives
• Conduct gap analysis to identify the profile of strong match candidates
• Assemble a framework and conduct assessment against it
• Articulate a recommendation for action

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