Mergers and Acquisitions Public and Private Company Valuation, James Tompkins

This is an advanced topic and assumes an understanding of all lectures in the “Corporate Finance Lecture Series” playlist on this channel. I begin by setting some themes. For example, do financial principles (e.g. risk and return) apply equally to both public and private companies? Is there is a logical minimum and maximum price when a target is bought by an acquirer? What are the impacts on these prices when the target is not liquid and/or there is a change in control between the target and acquirer? Next