Sell-Side M&A In Real Life
Learn how M&A truly works on the job so you can hit the ground running and speak the language of deals on day one.

Terms & Conditions

Welcome to the Course!

Table of Contents

Intro to Investment Banking

Sell-Side vs Buy-Side M&A

M&A On The Job

Course Overview

Burn it in!

The Pitch

Pitchbooks In Real Life - Deep Dive

Wrap-Up

Burn it in!

Pre-Launch - Introduction

Working Group List + Kick-Off

The Data Room

Marketing Documents

Burn it in!

Marketing - Introduction

Buyer Reach-Out

Intro to NDA's

NDA - Deep Dive

Burn it in!

Bidding Rounds - Introduction

Buyer Diligence & Non-Binding Bid Evaluation

Non-Binding Bids - Deep Dive

The Virtual Data Room

Management Presentations

Due Diligence - Business + Legal + Financial

Binding Bid Evaluation

Key (Incremental) Binding Bid Terms

Selecting a Buyer

Burn it in!

Purchase Agreements

Key Purchase Agreement Terms

Approvals, Announcements, The Funds Flow, Closing Dinner & Deal Toys

Burn it in!

Wrap-Up

Certification Diagnostic - Sell Side M&A
Go beyond the basics of the M&A process and learn the key decision points, responsibilities of the various parties, and how buyers and sellers evaluate each other.

Traditional programs focus only on high-level process steps, leaving you without the context or depth needed to truly understand how M&A works in practice.
Our students repeatedly tell us this course helped them stand out in Investment Banking interviews because they can articulate the details of an M&A process with confidence.

Other courses fail to equip you with the practical, real-world understanding of M&A needed to excel in interviews.
Go beyond the basics of the M&A process and learn the key decision points, responsibilities of the various parties, and how buyers and sellers evaluate each other.
Traditional programs focus only on high-level process steps, leaving you without the context or depth needed to truly understand how M&A works in practice.
Our students repeatedly tell us this course helped them stand out in Investment Banking interviews because they can articulate the details of an M&A process with confidence.
Other courses fail to equip you with the practical, real-world understanding of M&A needed to excel in interviews.
Condense on-the-job training into a streamlined course to gain insights and expertise that typically take years to acquire on the desk.
There are no comparable courses offering the same level of depth and actionable knowledge in such an efficient and effective format.
Having some prior knowledge of Accounting Fundamentals and Valuation Fundamentals will help you to get more out of this course, but neither is truly required.
This course is a 'cheat code' for Investment Banking Interviews. After taking this course, you'll be able to speak about the M&A process as if you had worked through a sell side process on the job. We've recieved numerous notes from students saying that this helped them stand out in a BIG way when interviewing. To our knowledge, no comparable course exists that walks you through the full sell-side M&A process.
The tradtional view on the content on this course is that you have to learn it on the job. We've trained countless Investment Banking analysts who have said this course really helped them get an edge over peers who had no idea how the M&A process worked beforehand. And because we cover not just the process, but the people dynamics along the way, you'll have a much better understanding of what's going on in the M&A process on the desk.