Wall Street specialist at CA Sri Lanka workshop
View(s):The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) is organising a mergers and acquisitions workshop on November 15 with the participation of a Wall Street expert.
The workshop conducted jointly with Euromoney Training LLC, will feature Andrew Regan, who has been a consultant to some of America’s top business tycoons like Warren Buffet, John Welch and Daniel Tully, the institute said.
The 3-day comprehensive workshop will cover the most critical aspects of mergers and acquisitions in today’s business context. The programme will cover six case studies while providing participants a modern and unique learning experience for their professional advancement.
The workshop will be broken into two sessions each day. On day one, the morning session will cover ‘Motivations and Fundamental Analytis in M&A Contexts’ while the afternoon session will focus on ‘Synergies, Due Diligence, and M&A Process.’ On the second day, the morning session will explore ‘Cost of Capital and Discounted Cashflow Analysis in an M&A Context,’ followed by the noon session on ‘Relative Valuation in Change-of-Ownership Transactions; Anticipated Synergies and Their Impacts on Valuation.’ The morning session on day three will be on ‘Transaction Structuring and Funding,’ while the noon session which will also be the final session of the 3- day workshop will be on ‘Leveraged Transaction Structuring.’
In 1994-95 Mr. Regan, served as Secretary to Warren Buffet, GE Chairman John Welch, former Merrill Lynch Chairman Daniel Tully, and other members of the Compensation Practices Committee, a blue-ribbon panel of securities industry experts appointed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt to look at remuneration in the retail brokerage business.