Graduate School for Professionals

2 DAY MASTERCLASS IN CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING, MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS - FOR DIRECTORS & SENIOR EXECUTIVES

Today's challenging economic environment provides new opportunities to those who can react fast and react well. Therefore numerous corporations' executives are involved in re-designing their restructuring strategies. The two day Masterclass is created to support these efforts with the proven results of 20 years of path breaking research in the United States and in Asia Pacific, personally applied in M&A consulting in the US, Europe and Asia.

Which Restructuring Strategy Works Best for Your Company in Today's Challenging Environment?

Restructuring opportunities include a wide array of activities, and what is common among them is that they are all significant changes in the way the company functions. Restructuring can be the most effective way to adjust to major changes in the business and economic environment. At the same time restructuring can enable the corporation to have a significant impact on the market. The type of restructuring strategies available includes:

• Portfolio restructuring: significant change in the mix of assets owned by the firm, or the line of business in which the firm operates. Examples include: outright or partial purchase of companies or product lines, divestiture, asset sales, spin-offs.
• Organizational restructuring: significant change in organizational structure. Examples include: divisional redesign, downsizing by closing nonstrategic facilities.
• Financial restructuring: significant change in capital structure. Examples include: leveraged buyouts, leveraged recapitalization, debt for equity swap, share repurchase, increasing debt as a part of a takeover defense; or reducing debt as a preparation for future takeover possibilities or due to balance sheet and liquidity concerns.

In the highly interactive 2-day Masterclass, we will explore: which restructuring and M&A strategy improves the most your corporation's performance?

RENOWNED INTERNATIONAL FACULTY

Faculty for the program is drawn from a pool of highly experience professors and represents a distinguished academic team. These faculty members are recognized globally for their contributions to the practice of management and leadership. Most of them also have industry experience, serving as senior executives, advisors, corporate board directors, and authors of books and publications.

INTENSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

The program incorporate an integrative learning environment through the use a range of tried and tested learning methodology including, interactive discussions, individual learning challenges, real life case studies, peer coaching, group presentation and exercises. The case method is long-recognized as an incredibly powerful business education tool. The program faculty's leadership and expertise in case writing and teaching add a powerful dimension to the learning experience. Participants engage in an interactive learning process that replicates executive decision making in actual business situations. Incorporating both written and "live" case studies that offer multiple levels of learning, the program compels executives to identify relevant issues and to apply practical business lessons to their own situations and companies. Using a combination of highly innovative learning and assessment methods, participants will be able to enhance their learning, resulting in immediate and effective implementation in the organization.

DYNAMIC CLASS INTERACTION

All program activities are structured to foster formal and informal interchange among high-level peers from different backgrounds and industries. Facilitated by world renowned faculty, lively classroom discussions, case studies and team projects promote exchange and sharing of ideas and experiences; stimulate fresh perspective; and encourage different viewpoints. This shared learning environment offer a conducive environment for participants to reflect and reformulate their goals and strategies at both corporate and personal level.

APPLICATION & ACTION FOCUS

This program's action-oriented focus encouraged participants to leverage on their personal experience and observations to generate new business knowledge and practical solutions. While examining strategic issues, participants are encouraged to consider specific implications, in particularly how they can realign the structure, processes and system to implement strategic change within their organizations. Participants will apply strategic learning to individual projects they have identified prior to the beginning of the program & present at forums for discussion and peer review.