Mergers & Acquisitions: International Corporate Transactions
Key Facts
Lecture (2 SWS); every WiSe; 5 ECTS
Content
The course provides a basic understanding of mergers and acquisitions, highlighting the significance of M&A and the various reasons behind M&A activities.
Students will learn to identify and analyse potential acquisition targets.
Furthermore, the valuation of potential acquisition targets and the structuring of such transactions are key topics.
The course content includes:
- Definition
- Development and trends
- Reasons
- Parties involved
- Characteristics of an ideal acquisition target
- Identification of suitable targets
- M&A process
- Due diligence
- Valuation
- Analysis and assessment
- Contract negotiations and contract design
- Post-merger integration
Course materials and further reading
- Behringer, S. (2013). Unternehmenstransaktionen - Basiswissen - Unternehmensbewertung - Ablauf von M&A, Berlin.
- DePamphilis, D.M. (2013). Mergers, Acquisitions, and other Recruiting Activities, 7th Ed.
- Picot, G. (2012), Handbuch Mergers & Acquisitions, 5. Auflage, Stuttgart.
- Müller-Stewens, G., Kunisch, S., Binder, A. (2010), Mergers & Acqusitions, Stuttgart.
- Wirtz, B. (2006): Handbuch Mergers & Acqusitions Management, Wiesbaden.
Applicability and how the exam works
- Master Business Administration (Version 1): Accounting, Finance and Taxation > Grundlagen
- Master Business Administration (Version 1): Accounting, Finance and Taxation > Vertiefung
- Master Business Administration (Version SoSe 2025): > Major Finance
Portfolio: case studies (70%), exam (45 min., 30%); an overall grade is awarded.
Recommended semester & prerequisites
This course should be taken at the start or midway through your degree programme. Prior knowledge of the topics covered in the introductory module in Finance is recommended; further finance modules are an advantage.
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