The Legal Team's Role in M&A
In this course, learn the key tasks that a legal team is responsible for in M&A from Andrew Gratz, Associate General Counsel at LyondellBasel.
What you’ll learn
- Five key milestones that are the legal team's responsibility
- Understanding the rationale behind deals
- Common regulatory, legal, and jurisdictional obstacles
- How to avoid deal fever
Course content
What role does legal play in M&A?
What are the key milestones in a deal where legal gets involved?
When should you use an IOI?
How do legal and corporate development teams encourage risks and rewards?
How do you preserve value post-close?
Does the legal team participate in post-mortems?
Who is this course for
This course is intended for those wanting to learn more about M&A legal teams' responsibilities.
Instructor
Andrew manages the seven-member legal team responsible for supporting LyondellBasell’s global mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions, sales contracts and arrangements ($20+ billion revenue) and capital projects in the Americas, and global government relations and public affairs groups. He was profiled by the Houston Chronicle for advising senior management through one of the largest Chapter 11 restructurings in U.S. history, and recognized by Modern Counsel magazine for global management skills and legal leadership.
Badges
Upon completing this course, students will receive a badge for "The Legal Team's Role in M&A".
Have any questions?
The M&A Science Academy is an online-platform where you can access courses taught by M&A professionals. The courses cover a wide variety of M&A topics such as integration, divestitures, due diligence, management styles, and more.
The M&A Science Academy includes courses from M&A experts who are eager to share their stories, failures, and successes.
Our goal is to provide users with knowledge from industry practitioners that can be applied to their own practices.
The M&A Science Academy courses were created to cover a range of topics based upon common M&A challenges. We are going to be adding new content regularly so feel free to explore new areas!
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