Prof Daniel Ferreira

This course will first be available during the 2025/26 academic session.

This course is available on the MSc in Law and Finance only. Students on any other programme are not permitted to take this course.

Students must have completed both Corporate Finance: Law (LL4FA) and Principles of Corporate Finance (FM479) in the Autumn Term as pre-requisites for Corporate Transactions of Finance.

This course covers advanced topics in Corporate Finance. It covers roughly the same topics as FM407. It focuses on the strategy, valuation and execution of corporate deals. In particular, the first part of the course covers mergers, divestitures, partial-divestitures (e.g. equity carve outs) and leveraged buyouts. The second part of the course provides a framework of analysis for the resolution of financial distress and bankruptcy. Each of the topics introduced in this course covers both institutional details and results of relevant academic research. It is furthermore supported by case studies.

30 hours of lectures in the WT.

This course is taught in the interactive lecturing format. There is no distinction between lectures and classes/seminars; there are "sessions" only, and the pedagogical approach in each session is interactive, totalling 30 hours across the Winter Term.

There will be some formative assignments distributed during the term.

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

Continuous assessment (100%) in the WT.