Dr Vicente Cunat

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Finance. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.

Students must have completed Principles of Finance (FM212).

This course will illustrate and extend the topics covered in “Principles of Corporate Finance” with a range of case studies. The course focuses on core concepts in corporate finance, that can be divided into two main topics. The first topic is capital structure. It covers issues such as how do firms choose how much debt and equity to keep in their balance sheets and the process of issuing them. The second topic are corporate deals that re-shape the financial structure of a company such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings or debt restructuring. The teaching of both topics will be covered using a combination of lectures and case studies with a very applied approach.

20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of lectures in the LT.

Students will be expected to produce 10 problem sets in the LT.

A course pack will be distributed that includes case studies as well as additional readings such as textbook chapters, and practitioner articles.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.