LAW 6298

Private Equity Playbook

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course will examine the private equity industry by exploring the many roles that lawyers can play in advising private equity firms and their investors. It will highlight the ways in which lawyers can best advise private equity clients by understanding their client's business objectives and by developing the judgment necessary to be effective counselors. The course will focus on private equity acquisitions (including public and private transactions), as well as on the evolving fundraising market and the investor community, financing private equity transactions, exit transactions (such as IPOs, strategic and secondary sales), governance issues in private equity portfolio companies, regulatory and litigation issues facing private equity firms, the role of management in private equity transactions, and the issues that arise when private equity portfolio companies become troubled.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: Business Organizations.

Comments Attendance mandatory at first class.

View Enrollment Information