AØKA08093U Private Equity – From Venture Capital to Buyouts

To obtain a 12 grade students should demonstrate a thorough understanding of micro and/or macro aspects of private equity in broad terms and/or a thorough understanding of a particular topic within the overall framework of the course.
On a macro level, students should demonstrate a thorough understanding of industry drivers, such as the growth in savings deployable, the effects of corporate governance and regulation on the attractiveness of private versus public capital as well public policy issues such as transparency, any systemic risks associated with financial innovation and in particular the trading and transfer of risks and taxation.

On a micro level, students should demonstrate a thorough understanding of the structures and workings of venture capital and private equity firms, in particular on the screening, investment, value creating and exit cycle, on capital structure issues as related to the stage and risk profile of portfolio companies, on the control and agency issues related to governance as well as of the contracts used to regulate principal/agent relations and to ensure alignment of interest, both in relation to limited partners and general partners and in relation to portfolio companies.

As this is a multi disciplinary course, students may select a topic of their own choosing within law, economics, finance and public policy for their project work. Students may choose to submit a paper with a more narrow focus than described above and achieve a 12 grade based on a thorough understanding of the subject matter in question and an overall understanding of the course material