32676 - Merchant Banking and Private Equity

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Simona Zambelli
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-P/11
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (cod. 0906)

Learning outcomes

The course studies the structured finance principles and the entire Venture Capital Investment Cycle, from a venture capitalist point of view.

Course contents

The course will emphasize the following topics:

  • private equity, venture capital, merchant banking, leveraged buyout,
  • venture capital cycle- (fundraising, screening, business plan screening, deal structuring, monitoring and exit).
  •  project finance 
  • secutitization

Readings/Bibliography

  • Cumming, Johan,Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting, last edition. http://www.venturecapitalprivateequitycontracting.com/
  • A. Metrick, Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation, Wiley, 2007,
  • Paper "Illegal Buyouts", scritto da Cumming e Zambelli, in Journal of Banking and Finance 2010. 
  •  Structured Fnance: techniques, Products and Market, di: Caselli, Gatti (a cura di), Springer Verlag, 2005.

Assessment methods

Written project on Private Equity Financing (25-.30 pages) to be sent to gaudiano.stefano@alice.it within the following sessions:

a) June 5, 2011

b) July 5, 2011

c) September 5, 2011

Links to further information

http://www2.sa.unibo.it --> docenti --> zambelli

Office hours

See the website of Simona Zambelli