A one-day course which will review the current corporate finance (CF) sector. This course is intended as an introduction to mainstream corporate finance activity, for information professionals as well as associates and other professionals who have little experience of this area of financial services.
As well as covering the main areas of corporate finance, there will be two short sessions covering related aspects of investment banking activities across the Chinese walls from corporate finance and each other; the sell (trading) and buy (investment management) sides.
outcomes:- Learn about one of the most significant areas of financial services.
- Understand the activities that make up corporate finance and how they relate to the other areas of investment banking.
- Gain familiarity with corporate finance terminology and jargon.
programme:Part 1:Overview of corporate finance in investment banking - Structure of corporate finance (CF), comparisons to other financial centres in the US, Europe and Far East
- Mainstream CF in the complex groups (bulge bracket banks) and in the niche investment banks,
- Regulation; Chinese walls, insider dealing
Corporate Finance; Deals - Organisation, structure and development; "doing deals"
- Corporate Finance "players"
- Mainstream
- legal, accounting firms and strategic management consulting in CF
- CF boutiques
- Mergers undAcquisitions
- The M&A process
- Friendly and contested (hostile) deals
- Competition issues and regulation
- Private Equity, how it works and how it fits into the corporate finance structure
- How companies are funded through private equity
- Limited and General Partnerships and their relationships to the investment banking CF community
- PE deals : MBOs, MBIs, LBOs, IBIs
- Exit Routes
- Project undStructured Finance
Corporate Finance; Raising Capital - Bringing Companies to the Stock Exchange
- Process of listing
- Corporate broking v corporate finance
- Role of Analysts
- Raising further capital
- International Capital Market (Eurobond Market) and it's importance in London
Part 2:Trading - Stock Exchanges; conventional exchanges and derivatives markets
- Challenges to Stock Exchanges from electronic trading networks
- Market Making
- Trading activities
Asset or Investment Management - Brief overview of the "buy side" and institutional investment
- All kinds of funds; unit trusts (mutual funds) investment trusts, OIECS and hedge funds
speaker:Sylvia James , Management Consultant
Consultant specialising in business information provision.
Sylvia James has worked as a management consultant for many years. She has advised on projects for a wide range of international industrial and financial services companies and non-profit organisations as a researcher and consultant, specialising in all aspects of their business information provision. As part of her wide ranging consultancy activities, she writes articles and courses, lectures and holds management briefings in Europe, Asia and North America.
In 2007, Sylvia was awarded the ALA Brass Thomson Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. View the ALA press release .
