Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), Joint ventures (JVs) and strategic alliance activity are running at a feverish pace across national boundaries. As industries continue to consolidate and globalize, mergers and acquisitions, alliance and joint ventures will remain at a high level, if not accelerate. This course combines strategic, financial, and governance perspectives in order to more fully understand the process and objectives of M&AS, JVs, strategic alliances.

Strategy and Finance theory is centrally important to understanding business objectives, tax considerations, securities laws, and governance implications in change of control transactions. A sound understanding of the transactional process in M&A, alliances and joint ventures requires a fundamental ability to apply the concepts of finance and management theory to important topics such as motives, financing, managerial entrenchments and cross-border negotiation issues, and antitrust questions.