On days one, two and three the course covers the key elements of an acquisition or merger, from the initial stand-alone valuation of the target to the more complex accounting and modelling issues to be considered and finally analysing and assessing the value created by synergy benefits and leverage.Participants will be led through a comprehensive review of analysis practices, from initial principles through to more advanced techniques that are used in transaction analysis. As part of their work on this course participants model transactions based on real-life companies and scenarios.Participants will model a more complex capital structure and calculate exit values and the IRRs generated by each investor. Using the integrated model participants will then analyse various scenarios (management case, base case, payout case) to derive the optimum financing structure taking into account the financial constraints of each investor.