Strategy & Leadership
Mergers, Acquisitions & Growth Strategy
Grow by Acquisition, Without Guessing
12 lessons4 modules9h 35m durationbeginner level
About this course
This course demystifies mergers and acquisitions for founders, operators, and managers who are not finance specialists. It covers the strategic logic behind buying a company, the major deal structures, how buyers value targets, what due diligence actually checks, and how integration is planned so the deal delivers the synergies it promised. It also gives equal weight to growth paths that are not acquisitions, so you can tell when M&A is the right tool and when it is not.
Curriculum
Module 1: Why Companies Acquire: Strategy and Growth Levers
- The Three Ways to Grow: Build, Buy, or PartnerPreview
- Strategic Rationales That Actually Create Value🔒
- Synergies: Where the Extra Value Is Supposed to Come From🔒
Module 2: Deal Types and Structures
- Horizontal, Vertical, and Conglomerate Deals🔒
- Asset Deal vs. Stock Deal vs. Merger🔒
- The Deal Process and Its Documents🔒
Module 3: Valuation and Due Diligence
- Valuing a Target: Multiples and Discounted Cash Flow🔒
- The Control Premium and Synergy-Adjusted Price🔒
- Due Diligence: Verifying What You Are Buying🔒
Module 4: Integration and Choosing the Right Growth Path
- The First 100 Days: Integration Planning🔒
- Why Deals Fail, and How to Improve the Odds🔒
- Alternatives to Acquisition: Organic, Joint Venture, and License🔒
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