Mastering M&A – Strategies, Valuation & Real-World Insights

Mastering M&A – Strategies, Valuation & Real-World Insights

FREE 1-hour LIVE webinar

Date: 13 March 2025

Time: 12:00 – 13:00 CET

1-hour preview of the Mergers & Acquisitions Advanced Level: Valuation of Companies using Financial Modelling in Excel course

Gain practical insights into Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) that you can apply immediately, even in this introductory webinar. You’ll walk away with knowledge that empowers you to make smarter, more confident strategic decisions.

This is just a glimpse into the depth and value of our comprehensive M&A program. You will discover how understanding M&A processes enables professionals to contribute meaningfully to key business initiatives, optimize resource allocation, and add value to organizational growth strategies.

During the webinar, we will examine and analyse simple yet powerful examples to illustrate these concepts.

Join us to see how M&A expertise can transform your approach to business development and strategic planning.

The short agenda is:

Agenda:

• How M&A can be a critical strategy for growth and survival.
• Why not organic expansion?
• Operating, financial, and strategic synergies.
• Defensive strategies in hostile takeovers.
• M&A seven stages approach
  1. Define your M&A Strategy: M&A strategic objectives and key performance indicators.
  2. Identify Target Companies: Financial statements analysis, Valuation: Free Cash Flow to Firm, comparable company analysis, and precedent transaction analysis.
  3. Build a Business Case and Financial Model: Strategic benefit, Feasibility, Financial benefit.
  4. Conduct a Due Diligence: Due diligence to validate key hypotheses and assumptions.
  5. Decide the Funding structure: Equity, debt or a mix? What will be the impact on the gearing, WACC and dilution of the shareholding of the acquirer’s ordinary shareholders.
  6. Execute Transaction: Deal structure
  7. Conduct the Post Merger Integration: Integration Strategy, Integration & Synergy initiatives, implementation & Monitoring, Change Management.
• Q&A Session
• Participant Feedback

Demonstration of the key steps will be conducted in an Excel spreadsheet with a breakdown of a successful (or failed) real-life acquisition and key takeaways.

Trainers:

George Skordis – an experienced professional, currently a Group CFO of 15 companies and conducting Finance projects for the EY Academy’s clients. For specific projects in Advisory and Training, George collaborates with EY Academy to serve key clients.