Financial Distress and Corporate Restructuring

• Financial Distress and Corporate Restructuring

Financial Distress and Corporate Restructuring Elective Courses

Overview

Financial Distress and Corporate Restructuring is an advanced finance course revolving around the most important issues faced by firms threatened by financial distress and bankruptcy. The purpose of the course is to provide both a theoretical and empirical framework focusing on the concept and tools necessary to manage corporate distress conditions.

The course is intended for students with an interest in learning about the financial, strategic, and business issues surrounding distress and corporate restructuring. It will be useful for a broad range of careers, including investment banking, strategy consulting, general management, entrepreneurship, securities analysis, and private equity

Learning outcomes

Topics covered include the analysis of the economic cycles and sources of business failures, the prediction of distress and its consequences on the firm’s costs, the legal frameworks regarding bankruptcy processes, the corporate restructurings actions available to avoid bankruptcy and emerge from distress, the valuation of troubled companies and the fundamentals of distressed investing