Corporate Finance Training

Following this course, all participants will be able to:

• Assess the credit worthiness of banks in the absence of a formal credit rating
• Understand the key accounting standards, specifically IFRS
• Identify key risk areas
• Provide a framework for analysis
• Undertake effective financial analysis
• Use the CAMEL(B) approach as part of the analysis process
• Identify and analyse key environmental drivers including regulatory issues
• Identify and analyse the key factors influencing operational dynamics of a bank
• Undertake a full analysis of a bank, demonstrating an understanding of the full range of analylitical tolls and a capacity to apply them in practice
• Interpret the key financial ratios
• Identify the main reasons and warning signs for bank failures

After this intensive two-day course you will be able to:

• Provide a practical framework for the evaluation of risk
• Construct a historical cash flow statement using raw data
• Analyse the cash flow dynamics of a company
• Calculate a company’s free cash flow and debt capacity
• Define and measure corporate liquidity
• Explain the significance of effective planning
• Build and evaluate a forecast model
• Set effective covenants

After this intensive two-day course you will be able to:

• Provide a comprehensive framework for undertaking corporate credit analysis
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between financial and non-financial factors in the credit analysis process
• Identify and evaluate key financial performance indicators
• Define liquidity and show how it can be measured
• Analyse a company’s cash flow dynamics
• Calculate a company’s free cash flow and debt capacity
• Show how strategic analysis tools can be applied as part of the credit analysis process
• Set effective risk controls

Key areas covered include:

• Practical corporate valuation techniques
• Getting to grips with cost of capital
• Flotation preparations
• Equity issues
• The practicalities of private acquisitions
• Financial structuring issues
• Public takeovers and mergers
• Private equity, LBOs and MBOs

This intensive three-day training course focuses on the core skills required for the successful application of corporate valuation techniques. Equip yourself with the skills to:

• Decide which valuation techniques you can use to your maximum advantage
• Value companies for mergers, acquisitions, privatisation and new issues
• Quantify and deal with the risks associated with corporate valuation
• Apply the latest valuation methods to different situations, including EVA®
• Generating shareholder wealth

This course will teach you the modelling techniques available that can be used for accurate financial forecasting, and how to apply them using Excel. It attracts delegates involved in investment appraisal, project financing, capital structuring, corporate valuation, MBOs and many more. The course addresses the many shared characteristics of model types and identifies problems associated with the building of cash flow models in specific contexts such as transaction structuring, private equity, MBOs and acquisitions. The tutor has extensive banking experience so can relate the modelling to the real world very well. You will cover:

• How to design a model to suit your purpose
• Valuation modelling using conventional and new approaches
• Accurate forecasting corporate cash flows for project finance deals and structures
• How to identify and control key sensitivities through advanced spreadsheet simulation
• How to build risk into your model to enhance the decision making process
• How to design a model to maximise flexibility and reliability
• Practical tips for checking and debugging the model

During this highly practical two-day course you will learn:

• The distinguishing features and core principles central to Islamic investment and finance
• The key role of Islamic law and how Sharia boards make their decisions
• How to understand the distinctive asset classes and their role within modern financial markets
• The practicalities of Salam and its derivative Istisna’a
• The development and intricacies of Islamic Retail and wholesale banking
• The impacts on wealth management and private banking

After three intensive days you will have a full working knowledge of:

• A payment, negotiation, acceptance, confirmation and deferred payment credits
• The UCP-ICC 600 rules
• International documentation
• Standbys and international guarantees
• Back to back, front to back and event-triggered finance
• The mechanics of discounting, forfaiting and factoring
• Pre-shipment and pre-export risk assessment
• International contract financing
• Marketing trade finance – internal and external

Attend this intensive training course and gain a practical knowledge and understanding of:

• Negotiating loan documentation from both the financier and borrower perspectives
• Interpretation of various clauses under common law
• Enforceability issues and pitfalls in the drafting and negotiation of guarantees and letters of support
• Different types of securities including pledges, liens, constructive trusts, fixed and floating charges, mortgage debentures, and security over property, shares and insurance assignments
• Implication of insolvency on the contractual rights of all parties involved

Five reasons why you MUST attend this programme:

• You will learn from a highly experienced trainer with 20 years industry experience, revealing the industry's best kept secret
• This course is based on the world's only definitive textbook on private equity
• You will gain the techniques to model and analyse private equity returns
• Buyout and venture explained in depth
• Breadth of industry coverage by time, sector, stage and geography

• The residential nature of this programme allows the inclusion of case studies with a deeper level of appreciation and understanding
• This programme will bridge the gap between theory and market practice, providing recommendations of how the techniques should be applied in different decision-making contexts
• The course looks at transactions from the viewpoint of the company itself, debt financiers, and shareholders – and highlights the negotiation and commercial issues that arise from the differences in perspective
• In addition to the comprehensive course materials, each participant leaves the course with a CD-ROM loaded with excel files and additional reading material on a wide range of corporate financing topics
• It will be tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose

Attend this intensive three-day training course and learn how to:

• Price accurately and deal successfully
• Assess various financial covenants and understand for which type of deal each is most effective
• Latest developments including the LMA, growth of the secondary market and links between the LMA and the primary and secondary markets
• Latest legal issues for syndicated loans
• Win the mandate: all you need to know

Why this event is unmissable:

• The only 5-day course of its kind that is dedicated to applications not just theory
• You will learn from Guy Fraser-Sampson, one of the world’s leading private equity experts
• The programme covers all aspects of private equity from both an LP/LG (fund level) and GP/entrepreneur (company level) perspective
• You will benefit from highly practical guidance on practical matters such as fundraising and planning an investment portfolio
• The use of extensive real-world practical examples and group case studies will provide you with state-of-the-art knowledge in the private equity sector
• You will gain a unique insight into how private equity fits into modern investment portfolios and its role in multiasset class investing
• You will receive a free signed copy of Guy Fraser-Sampson’s top selling book - Private Equity as an Asset Class