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A short guide to using Copilot in Microsoft Outlook, using an example of writing a business development email.

Direct mergers are the simplest type of merger structure. Here’s how they work and why they’re used.

An overview of common private equity fund investment strategies such as growth equity and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). The course also covers alternative strategies including private debt, real assets, and funds of funds.

Discussion of the role of the defending lawyer, ways to protect the witness, rules on counseling the witness during the deposition, correcting testimony, and re-direct.

A walkthrough of a typical Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, including explanations of its main provisions.

Excel functions are preset formulas that make it easy to perform specific calculations. Here's a summary of some useful functions for lawyers, and a description of how functions are structured.

Covers due diligence for venture finance deals and the main economic and control rights negotiated in venture finance term sheets, plus how to make key calculations such as cap tables, pro forma cap tables, prices per share, pro rata rights, note conversions, dividends, and liquidation preferences.

This program covers the structure of private equity funds, key deal types, how PE firms approach transactions, and the differences between strategic M&A and Private Equity M&A.

This program covers how corporations authorize their actions and draft written consents, Delaware annual reports, ‘34 Act disclosure requirements for public companies, and two methods of calculating corporate franchise tax.

This track introduces the main documents involved in commercial lending deals. It includes walk throughs of the documents and their main provisions, covers key legal and business points, as well as strategic considerations for drafting, reviewing, and filing the documents. Documents covered include commitment letters and other preliminary documents, UCC-1 financing statements, UCC-3s, payoff letters, security agreements, and credit agreements.

An introduction to corporate restructuring practice, including how restructuring practice groups are organized, the roles of the key players, the types of restructuring transactions distressed companies may consider, and overviews of Chapter 11 cases and 363 sales.

Rules, procedures, tips and strategic considerations for taking and defending expert depositions. This track covers qualifying as an expert, expert and rebuttal reports, witness prep, questioning techniques, attorney-client privilege, and more.