WHU MSc Virtual Class Visit
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Discover the WHU Master of Science Programs
Join us online and experience a live MSc class session on Investment Banking with Jan Caspar Hoffmann
Attend a real-life lecture with our current students from the comfort of your home. Get a glimpse into our dynamic learning environment and get valuable insights into our curriculum.
The open class is the second session of Investment Banking, an elective for the Master in Finance and Master in International Business Programs.
About the Class:
Objective is to offer an inter-disciplinary education that puts corporate finance elements in context with a broad variety of real life situations ranging from Investment Banking to Private Equity to the corporate world. The language is an almost universal one, as is the modus operandi, and emphasis will be put on realistic problem solving as opposed to textbook approaches.
Accordingly, the course will also cover topics such operational and financial modeling which ultimately are a basic requirement for not only understanding valuation techniques but also for example to assess value creation in a Leveraged Buyout scenario.
Enriched with multiple and diverse examples from Jan Caspar Hoffmann’s extensive deal doing over the last more than 2 decades, the course will illustrate applied theory in a global and cross-border setting.
In order to achieve maximum practical relevance, select high profile guest speakers covering various disciplines will be invited to contribute to the sessions.
Course target is to enable students to understand – and be able to apply – advanced Corporate Finance topics in a real life setting irrespective of the domain in which it takes place.
The course is complementary to various other courses offered, namely “Private Equity and Venture Capital”, “Mergers & Acquisitions and Other Corporate Restructurings” and “Investments” with marginal, if any, overlap.
Session 2
- Bespoke process architecture as key success factor for optimal private M&A transaction outcomes
- Basics, trends and pitfalls on the intersection of the legal world and M&A – the relevance of the SPA
About Jan Caspar Hoffmann:
Jan Caspar started as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch early 1999 where he worked in Frankfurt and London before moving to Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, the primary direct investment platform of Merrill Lynch, in 2007 with responsibility for the activities in Germany as a Senior Principal. He then joined Société Générale mid 2010 as a Managing Director and Head of M&A for German-speaking Europe and was later given additional responsibility as Co-Head of Corporate Finance for German-speaking Europe. Early 2015, Jan Caspar (re)opened the German office for the global independent investment bank Moelis & Company where he was a Managing Director and Partner and acted as Head of M&A for German-speaking Europe until his departure end of 2019.
Over the span of his career as an investment banker and investor, Jan Caspar has had the chance to gain exposure to a broad variety of situations, many of which in a cross-border context, with a focus on public takeovers and corporate carve outs.
Jan Caspar lectures widely and holds a lectureship for Corporate Finance at Frankfurt University since 2012. He also currently holds a lectureship for Investment banking at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management where he is a Senior Fellow. Jan Caspar has held lectureships in the past at the University of Cologne and EBS in Oestrich-Winkel and is a long-standing guest lecturer at his alma mater ESCP Europe. As of lately, Jan Caspar has committed to various sessions at Saïd School of Business at the University of Oxford.
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