Corporate Finance: Principles and Practice

This casebook provides an introduction to corporate finance for lawyers, focusing on what students will need to know in corporate practice. Among other things, students learn:

• Financial fundamentals, such as how to work with and read financial statements, how to conduct a discounted cash flow analysis, and option pricing theory.
• Financial contracting theory relevant for companies raising capital through common stock offerings, corporate debt offerings, preferred stock offerings, and the issuance of convertible securities.
• Application of finance principles to various corporate legal settings, including M&A, appraisal disputes, and fiduciary duty litigation.
• Contractual solutions employed to deal with the various conflicts and ambiguities that arise due to corporate finance transactions.
• How to work with spreadsheets to implement financial provions contained in corporate finance transaction documents.

Additionally, the text covers a broad range of related topics such as venture capital, inter-creditor disputes, poison pill defenses, and activist shareholder recapitalizations.

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