Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, And Other Restructurings + Website: A Practical Guide To Investment Banking And Private Equity

The history of mergers and acquisitions is arguably as long as the history of commerce itself. Over the past century, waves of M&A activity have corresponded with equities markets and have changed with regulatory and market shifts. M&A activity is one major method of providing growth and value to both large and small corporations alike.

In Mergers and Acquisitions + Website, New York School of Finance founder Paul Pignataro will cover:

• Accounting for asset acquisitions, asset divestitures, and corporate mergers and acquisitions
• Earnings, EBITDA, cash flow, and capital structure
• Merger modeling, including simple acquisition accounting, simple divestiture accounting, mini-merger modeling, and fully consolidated merger modeling
• Types of acquisitions including assets and equity
• Case studies

The Wall Street coveted analysis of understanding the drivers leading to growth through M&A has remained a mystery, until now.

PAUL PIGNATARO is the founder and CEO of the New York School of Finance (NYSF). He has over thirteen years of experience in investment banking and private equity in business mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, asset divestitures, asset acquisitions, and debt and equity transactions covering the oil, gas, power and utility, internet and technology, real estate, defense, travel, banking, and service industries. At NYSF, Mr. Pignataro continues to participate on the training team, actively providing training at bulge bracket banks and M&A teams at corporations and billion dollar funds. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Pignataro worked at TH Lee Putnam Ventures, a $1 billion private equity firm affiliated with buyout giant Thomas H. Lee Partners. Prior to that, he worked in the Investment Banking department of Morgan Stanley.