
Master's programs
Mergers & Acquisitions Certificate
Mergers & Acquisitions Certificate
- Mergers & Acquisitions remains of high interest for HEC Paris students
- Position in M&A are one of the leading first jobs for HEC Paris graduates (investment bank, strategy consultants, transaction services, law firms, corporates, …)
- There is limited education offer for postgraduate in that area.
Open to all students but some clear adequacy with international finance, strategic management and law.
- Bring you a multidisciplinary understanding of M&A (finance, legal, strategy, private equity, due diligence, corporate approach including post merger integration challenges,, tax…),
- Provide quality education for future professionals of the sector and more generally familiarize students with M&A as they will undoubtedly be faced with such a situation in their career.
- Finance: deal structuring and merger models, negotiation parameters including deal pricing, take-over bids and defence tactics, financing…,
- Legal: share purchase agreements, due diligence, anti-trust, tender offers rules,
- Strategy: rational for external growth, joint ventures,
- Private equity and LBOs: fund raising and fund organisation, structuring of LBOs, managing of participations and value creation, exit, management package, LBO models,
- Financial due diligence: sell side, buy side, key parameters to consider,
- Corporate approach to Mergers and Acquisitions: identification of target, internal decision process, post merger integration, E&C issues,
- Tax: tax structuring, key aspects in M&A.
- M&A Certificate now developed in the framework of a Corporate initiative between Crédit Agricole CIB (CACIB) and HEC Paris
Professors
- Marc Vermeulen, Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris, Academic Director of the M&A Certificate and Director of the CACIB - HEC Paris Corporate Initiative inM&A,
- Michael Loy, Affiliate Professor, Executive Director of the LLM in Law & International Management and the Pedagogical Director of the Master 1 course of “Droit des sociétés”,
- Pascal Quiry, Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris, co-author of Finance d’Entreprise whose initial author was Pierre Vernimmen,
- Bernard Ramanantsoa, ex-Dean of HEC Paris.
and other professors and participants, all M&A professionals and experts.