Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Mergers and Acquisitions for Entrepreneurs - EPS7530

Mergers & Acquisitions for Entrepreneurs - Kevin Mulvaney Olin 101

Session 1
M&A world is just 40 years old - actually pretty young.

70s - mergers (ESOP)
80s - Conglomerate challenge (LBO, MBO)
90s - International Capital Markets Expand cycle '00-'10 Debt impact on m&a LDC Expansion/entry
Today - Large Corporations / Fortune 1000 Middle market small business ($1-10m)

Acquisition Process:
Acquisition Strategy
Targeting, Analysis and Valuation
Letter of Intent
Due Diligence
Negotiation and Agreement
Closing and Management Strategy


Session 2, Sep 05 2012



Deal Evaluation Process Steps:

In almost every deal this is the flow of the Buyer’s process in evaluating and development of a bid proposal

Opportunity Evaluation
Risk Evaluation
“Adjustments’ to historical financials
Buyer Strategy and Impact on Pro Formas and Deal Structure
Deal Structure –Stock vs. Asset Deal and how are cos. In this industry sold?
Valuation Alternatives for this industry and find at least three valuation metrics
Financing Alternatives relative to this type of deal
Model Financing linked to Valuation
Test Financing and Valuation via Coverage Ratio in Pro Forms
Due Diligence List
Management Plan
Operations Plan
Day One Strategy
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Session 2 slides



Public vs Privately owned companies - slide
Hockey Stick concept
On slide 10 - Valuation methodologies:
DCF comes in the last. Th eindustry does the multiples analysis and benchmarks first, brings the valuation in a zone and then does the DCF.

FCF is a better measure than  the BIDTA, but still this is not a perfect mechanism.
Hint: Dealbook 3 FCF

In M&A the Fair market value is what counts.
The Banks also care just about teh fair market value of all teh assets.

Cash is King

Case: Martin Smith
Three options of acquisition
Rustica
Yellowstone CB
Wildflower

What thought process do you use to make a buying decision.

Session 3 - Sep 12, 2012




Three Cs
Cash Flow
Collateral
Coverage Ratio

Fojtasek Case discussion:
Solutions:
Heritage, LBO, MBO (management buyout), Leverage recap, Merger, Pvt placement, restructure, IPO, ESOP, Do nothing, Sell company.

Heritage: Pvt IPO Pvt companies looking for liquidity events have less options
LBO (Leveraged Buyout): Combination of equity on the Balance sheet contributed by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
MBO (management buyout): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_buyout
Leveraged Recapitalization: Take debt and buy back Equity from the owner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_recapitalization

Private Placement: a single buyer of a chink of stock
ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership_plan

Session 4 - Sep 19th 2012

Acquisition Process:
Targeting and analysis
Letter of intent
Due diligence
Negotiating an agreement
Closing
Management strategy

Objectives of the Letter of Intent:

Session 6 - Oct 3rd 2012
The strategic buyer is going to be different than the financial buyer.

In US we have UCC: Uniform Commercial Code
In an M and A deal 

1 comment:

  1. Mergers and Acquisitions, generally called "M & A" in high finance parlance is one of the more unique areas of fund and company. Usually bigger dealings in this area are managed by investment lenders or vendor financial institutions, but daily a number of method and small size companies either complete or consider such dealings. Usually when a entrepreneur or management group contemplates a merging or purchase there is a technique behind the deal.

    Mergers and Acquisitions

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