The course involves analysis of corporate restructuring strategies including mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers, financial re-capitalization, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, going private, and reorganization under bankruptcy. The course integrates the corporate governance and agency dimensions, financial and strategic management aspects, and legal and accounting considerations into a unified framework for investigating issues such as, pre-merger planning, fact-finding, accounting and tax implications, anti-trust problems, post-merger integration, and short-term and long- term shareholder wealth consequences of financial and organizational restructuring transactions.
