Practical Finance for Lawyers

Practical Finance for Lawyers (PF.Law) is a series of workshops designed to improve lawyers' understanding of how commonly-used financial terms are derived and to show how their drafting into agreements can be improved. Each workshop lasts approximately 2 hours.

Associates qualified for between two and six years whose drafting of financial and commercial terms would benefit from having a better understanding of the calculations that underpin contract definitions. The workshops will be of value to any lawyer who practices leasing, project, and structured finance, tax, mergers & acquisitions, construction & real estate, privatization, private equity, and general commercial law.

The workshops are highly practical. Attendees use a spreadsheet to derive the financial and commercial terms, thereby embedding their understanding of them immediately, rather than in some abstract way through discussion or lecture.

• PF. Law 101 – Spreadsheet mechanics
• PF. Law 102 – Financial statements and KPIs
• PF. Law 201 – Primary term debt calculations
• PF. Law 202 – Private Equity / M&A
• PF. Law 203 – Privatizations (PFI/PPP)
• PF. Law 204 – Debt ratios
• PF. Law 205 – Contractual indexation provisions
• PF. Law 301 – Tax calculations
• PF. Law 302 – Construction financing
• PF. Law 304 – Leasing finance calculations
• PF. Law 306 – Export credits and multi-lateral lending
• PF. Law 401 – Shareholder returns

No prior knowledge of MS Excel spreadsheets is required. However, attendance of the 45 minute introductory workshop “PF.Law 101 (Spreadsheet Mechanics)” is highly recommended. The workshops are designed so that attendees can be quickly taught what they need to know so they can derive calculations using a spreadsheet.