Creating Value through M&A Making Successful Acquisitions

Vlerick Business School

Strategy / Accounting & Finance

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Successful M&A deals can be challenging – and they need time, care and cross-functional expertise. In this four-day programme, you’ll live and learn elements that can make or break a deal – from selecting bona fide prospects that fit your strategy, through to performing proper due diligence, valuing the target, structuring the best deal, and creating value from integration. By the end of the programme, you’ll be able to leap confidently into M&A deals, with the knowledge to make a real impact.

Programme Content

Throughout this four-day programme, you’ll explore aspects of M&A that take place before, during and after acquisition. You’ll consider various strategic rationales, discover steps in the due diligence process, learn integration techniques and listen to seasoned experts and learn from their mistakes and successes. The programme gives you an in-depth A-to-Z perspective of mergers and acquisitions.

Module 1: Setting the scene

Explore strategy in M&A

Discover valuation techniques

Dive into case studies to apply concepts

Module 2: The process of deal making

Learn due diligence best practice

Discover the deal process, step by step

Understand the decision-making process

Listen to a testimonial

Module 3: Structuring M&A transactions and anti-trust issues

Understand underlying financial decisions

Explore empirical evidence of M&A performance

Know how to structure and finance the deal

Module 4: Post-M&A integration

Dive into a buy-to-build business case

Develop an integration approach using various techniques

Learn to preserve value in the post-acquisition period

Discover how to create value through integration

Programme Audience

General managers who are entering into an acquisition – or who are already responsible for making a success of acquisitions

Business development or M&A managers responsible for the acquisition process

Financial experts looking to broaden their knowledge of the overall M&A process

Functional managers in controlling, finance, legal, human resources or operations roles who are involved in the acquisition process

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Programme Benefits

Understand the M&A process – from strategy and finance to post-merger integration

Get critical analysis frameworks to help you perform or oversee proper due diligence

Understand factors that can make or break a deal

Use our framework to guide your integration efforts and approaches

Testimonials

"The quality of the programme is very high, and the focus on real-life cases and the practical aspects of the M&A process makes it attractive for professionals and practitioners. I left Vlerick feeling well-prepared to manage the M&A process from beginning to end – I recommend this programme highly ."

Victor Hugo Gomez

Strategy and Innovation Manager at Deutsche Börse AG

"Structuring and Financing M&A Deals is a unique programme that contains all the ingredients for professionals involved with acquisitions. Inspiring faculty combined with quality material, exciting business cases and relevant practical examples complete the picture. Highly recommended!"

Patrick Hautphenne

Vice President, Specialties & Decorations Western Europe at Barry Callebaut

"The course has given me new insights, we revisited known formulas and discussed new approaches. Professors and guest speakers provided an academic foundation with a clear link to practice. Now I am successfully using the techniques in our firm. The effort the programme demands is more than worth it."

Kris Bloemen

Chief Financial Officer at TDL Group Houthalen

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