LLM865 Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings

[3–0, 3 cr.]

The course involves analysis of corporate restructuring strategies including mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, going private, and reorganization under bankruptcy. The course integrates the corporate governance and agency dimensions, financial and strategic management aspects, and legal considerations into a unified framework for investigating issues such as, pre-merger planning, fact-finding, antitrust problems, post-merger integration, and short-term and long- term shareholder wealth consequences of financial and organizational restructuring transactions. The course combines applied theoretical approach with the case study method through detailed analysis of domestic and global restructuring cases. The focus will be on fundamental concepts of valuation and analytical tools of corporate finance related to restructuring.