A bespoke learning solution to upskill corporate lawyers to enable them to add more value to their corporate and private equity clients undertaking M&A transactions
Lawyers are increasingly seeking to differentiates themselves by demonstrating they understand more beyond the immediate legal workstreams
Knowing what your client is actually doing on an M&A deal with other advisors, is invaluable in developing a broader contextual understanding for what is going on at each stage, and can practically help lawyers plan, manage resource better and empathise
Elevating commercial & technical knowledge will create more rounded legal advisors who are better positioned to add greater value to clients over the long term and supercharge their prospects and those of the firm
“Don’t trust the lawyers with the numbers” is verbiage frequented across M&A floors. Make sure you don’t fit into this category
So...
do you know just a little about how the financial statements actually work, and what drives Enterprise Value?
what really is working capital at a fundamental level, why does it keep popping up in every EV to Equity bridge you see and how is it negotiated?
how are cash and debt adjustments identified and what can lawyers do to help on locked box and completion accounts mechanisms?
how do legal due diligence findings feed through into value negotiation?
how do PE firms structure their investments, what are the options and why are those chosen?
what needs to get settled and paid off at completion in a funds flow, and what does it depend on?
how can M&A advisors mess up leakage and permitted leakage and how can you as a lawyer help them get it right?
Minimal time investment, significant upside available.
Financa has created a short, succinct and impactful learning product to address the increasing demand and enquires from lawyers about bespoke learning content to turbo charge technical knowledge to be the best legal advisor they can be.
