Course Catalog & Schedules Course Search > Search Results > Course Description Corporate Restructuring (FINC-448-0) 1.00 Credit Description: This course counts toward the following majors: Finance This course examines transactions that significantly affect corporations' assets, liabilities, and/or equity claims. The course is intended to provide an overview of common restructuring techniques as well as the economic motives for undertaking them. Topics covered include bankruptcy, convertible securities, tracking stock, spin-offs, and mergers. Transactions will be examined from the perspectives of both the corporation (e.g. CFO and CEO) and the capital markets (e.g. investors). Common "arbitrage" trading strategies involving corporate transactions will also be discussed. Cases will be used as the primary method of instruction. Prerequisite: FINC-442 or permission of instructor. A basic understanding of financial options will be assumed (advanced features of financial options will be introduced when necessary.) Prerequisites: All Students: FINC-442-0 Corequisites: None

We are currently in the Fall 2009 quarter.

Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Fall 2009 This course has not yet been scheduled.   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Winter 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Spring 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 * Thompson MR 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (TBD)   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Summer 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.

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