OVERVIEW
This is a two-part course focusing on LBO Analysis Fundamentals and LBO Modeling.
6.5 hours of video content.
Estimated 13 hours to complete.
Estimated 13 hours to complete.
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PREREQUISITES
This course is open to all. To maximize the benefit of this course we recommend an understanding of financial statements and Microsoft Excel.
LBO Anlaysis Fundamentals:
Learn how financial sponsors select appropriate target businesses, the typical funding structures they use to acquire these target businesses and the way they generate a return, or IRR for their investors through a sale or ‘exit’ at the end of the LBO.
LBO Modeling:
Learn how to structure an LBO and model the impact of the new financing structure. The focus of this course is to build out a full integrated model with an income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement, together with a detailed analysis of the financing structures and returns
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
LBO Analysis Fundamentals:
- Define an LBO transaction
- Understand the funding structure of an LBO
- Identify the process of the subordination of debt within an LBO funding structure
- Build an LBO model in Excel for any cash-generating business
LBO Modeling:
- Build a detailed Sources & Uses table, including target cash, shareholder loan note and fees
- How to build the initial balance sheet post buy out
- How to forecast the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, incorporating a detailed cash sweep / cash waterfall
- How to calculate returns to all investors participating in equity, including the financial sponsor, management team, and mezzanine investors
- How to build data tables to sensitize key outputs
TOPICS COVERED
Complete topics step by step or jump to any of the below at any time.
LBO Analysis Fundamentals:
- LBO valuation
- Financing structure
- Senior secured debt
- Senior unsecured debt
- Subordinated debt
- Equity financing
- Debt push down
- IRR
LBO Modeling:
- Model overview
- Sources and uses of funds at entry
- Operating forecast
- Distribution of proceeds at exit
- Returns analysis
- Sources and uses of funds at entry
- Sources and uses of funds table
- Ownership structure: Equity ownership at entry vs exit
- Common equity (Sponsor and Management)
- The use of different types of equity: Shareholder loan (PIK interest) and preferred stock
- The use of different types of debt: term loans, subordinated debt, high yield, mezzanine (with PIK and cash interest)
- Operating forecast
- Creating the opening balance sheet
- Focus on cash flow drivers and sanity-checking preliminary assumptions
- Cash flows available for debt servicing
- Repayment schedules for individual debt instruments
- Acceleration of debt payments using a cash sweep mechanism
- Modeling the revolving credit facility
- Circularities and the interest calculations
- PIK interest
- Credit ratios
- Using the model outputs to identify key debt covenants
- Distribution of proceeds at exit
- Benefit of modeling out value to all investors at exit
- Returns
- Calculation and interpretation of returns to the equity investors
- Calculation and interpretation of returns to mezzanine investors
- Calculation and interpretation of returns to the management team
- IRR and money multiple
- Sensitizing the outputs of the analysis
- Analysis of the output
**Training The Street acquired AMT Training in 2021. We have merged AMT's products into one store, to increase our content offering.**
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This course is available in the:
Essentials 10 Courses Bundle - Valuation, Modeling and Origination.
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The bundle includes the following courses:
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Excel Best Practices for PC: Become an Excel Expert
- Financial Modeling: Building a Complete Model in Excel
- Corporate Valuation: How to Value Companies and Mergers
- Merger Modeling: How to build an M&A Model in Excel
- LBO Modeling: Building an LBO Model in Excel
- Capital Markets and Corporate Funding
- Debt Captial Markets
- Equity Capital Markets
- Applied Excel: Working with Data Sets and Scenario Analysis
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