The Private Equity Deal Maker includes

skills certificate

The Private Equity Deal Maker

| skills-certificate

skills certificate

The Private Equity Deal Maker

| Skills Certificate
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18

Hours

88

Practical exercises

This skills certificate has been designed by five industry experts who share 14 years of experience in private equity and leveraged finance.

Debt Products - Financing Instruments

13 video minutes

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Video minutes 13

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  • Types of debt: senior debt – revolving credit facility, term loan A-C / subordinated debt – 2nd lien term loan, HY bond, mezzanine
  • Preferred stocks and equity injection
  • Management rachet
  • Debt providers / holders: banks, insurance corps, CLOs, hedge fund, pension fund
  • Covenants
  • Collateral: 1st vs 2nd, all assets or bifucated
  • Financing fees: upfront fee, commitment fee, interest rate, PIK, OID, etc.
  • Key considerations: interest rate (PIK, OID), typical term (1 year, 5 years, 7 years), repayment (bullet, amortization)

Debt Products - Documentation

10 video minutes

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Video minutes 10

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  • Typical contracts:
    • Credit agreement
    • Indenture
    • Regulatory Documents
    • Collateral contracts
  • Typical clauses:
    • Cashsweep clauses
    • Cross default clauses: Trigger event
    • Pari-passu
    • Repayment / redemption

Debt Products - Financing Consideration Process

11 video minutes

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Video minutes 11

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  • Financing consideration: process overview
  • Addressing existing debt
  • Evaluating debt capacity
  • Analyzing collateral base
  • Considering minimum equity contribution
  • Simulating expected ratings outcome
  • Analyzing financial ratios

Debt Products - Credit Committee in Banking

10 video minutes

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Video minutes 10

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  • What is credit committee
  • Composition of credit committee materials
  • Transaction background / deal summary
  • Company overview
  • Sponsor company overview
  • Financial analysis
  • Risk analysis and mitigants

Private Equity Acquisition Analysis

75 video minutes

18 excel exercises

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Video minutes 75

Excel Exercises 18

  • LBO – definition
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and value analysis
  • LBO analysis models
    • LBO analysis model map
    • Assumptions
    • Sources and uses of funds
    • Sources of funds
    • Operating forecasts and cash sweeps
    • Model outputs
    • Levered valuation

Acquisition Finance and Debt Capacity

32 video minutes

5 excel exercises

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Video minutes 32

Excel Exercises 5

  • Multiple based debt capacity analysis
  • Dangers of using multiples
  • Cash flow based debt capacity analysis
  • Calculating free cash flows
  • Debt tranching
  • Seniority and subordination

Advanced LBO Modeling

120 video minutes

26 excel exercises

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Video minutes 120

Excel Exercises 26

  • Sources and uses of funds
  • Original issue discount
  • Fees (arrangement and commitment)
  • Creating the opening balance sheet
  • Stub period three statement model
  • Deal adjustment including amortization of debt issuance fees
  • Pro-forma balance sheet
  • Cash flows available for debt service
  • Minimum cash balance
  • Term loans and revolving credit facilities, including cash sweep
  • Mezzanine financing and PIK interest
  • Returns to mezzanine holders
  • Returns to common equity holders

Completion Mechanisms

49 video minutes

8 excel exercises

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Video minutes 49

Excel Exercises 8

  • Completion accounts introduction
  • Completion accounts calculations
  • Issues with the completion accounts mechanism
  • Locked box mechanism introduction
  • Locked box mechanism calculations
  • Completion accounts and locked box mechanisms

New - LBO Modeling Complexities

147 video minutes

26 excel exercises

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Video minutes 147

Excel Exercises 26

  • Sources and uses of funds
  • Original issuer discount
  • Fees (arrangement and commitment)
  • Pro-forma balance sheet
  • Term loans and revolving credit facilities
  • Bond issues (senior and junior)
  • Mezzanine financing and PIK interest and more
  • Returns to mezzanine holders
  • Leveraging the equity via preference shares
  • Returns to common equity holders

New - Earnouts

15 video minutes

1 excel exercises

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Video minutes 15

Excel Exercises 1

  • Contingent consideration – structures
  • Accounting for deferred consideration
  • Examples of earnouts

New - Carried Interest and Promotion Modeling

75 video minutes

4 excel exercises

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Video minutes 75

Excel Exercises 4

  • Overview of the “2 and 20%” concept for fund managers
  • Management fees
  • Return of capital (US/EU style waterfalls)
  • Preferred returns (pari-passu/true preferred)
  • Carried interest
  • Catch-up provisions and more
  • Promotes for real estate transaction
  • Annual distributions in real estate (hurdles and overall returns)
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