32763 - PRIVATE EQUITY AND STRUCTURED FINANCE

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The purpose of the course is to provide students with the financial instruments to manage the riskiness underlying the financing of high growth potential firms within the context of private equity, merchant banking and buyouts. A special focus is reserved to the riskiness underlying the entire investment cycle (VC cycle) employed by investors, which includes the following phases: fundraising; selection and evaluation; business and financial planning; negotiation; deal structure; financing; operation, and exit. At the end of the course, students learn the financial instruments employed by venture capitalists to effectively address the problems of asymmetric information and riskiness involved in private equity financing.

Contenuti

iL corso è in inglese e si focalizza sui finanziamenti alle imprese innovative, tipicamente Private Equity e Merchant Banking, Crowdfunding, Business Angels, Venture Capital. Nel corso valuteremo nel dettaglio l'intero ciclo di investimento. 

Main Topics: 

Private Equity and other forms of financing innovation

Crowdfunding and Project Finance

Venture Capital Cycle:

fundraising;

selection and evaluation;

business and financial planning;

negotiation;

deal structure;

financing;

operation,

exit

 

ATTENTION FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS: This course is strictly connected and integrated with the course "Due Diligence Lab", so you are requested to attend both courses.

 

Testi/Bibliografia

A special course package will be provided to attending students, following the structure of the book: Cumming and Johan, Private Equity Contracting, Elsevier. Please come to the first class of the course for all details.

For non attending students the recommended book is the following: Cumming and Johan, Private Equity Contracting, Elsevier.

(Non attending students are strongly suggested to come to the first class of the course to get all details they need).

Metodi didattici

Il corso ha un taglio sia teorico, sia applicato. Si darà molto peso alle discussioni di casi, simulazioni e presentazioni di course-projects.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written exam

Link ad altre eventuali informazioni

https://sites.google.com/site/simonazambellihomepage/home/teaching-activity

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Simona Zambelli