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The Structuring Transactions seminars are intended to explore practical aspects of structuring corporate, commercial, and/or business transactions, including drafting legal documents and negotiating the deal. Instructors typically teach one section a year. Please review the class schedule for which instructors are teaching in any term. Prerequisites for all sections: Corporations or Business Associations. Some sections may have additional prerequisites or recommended courses. In this case, courses in corporate finance and securities regulation are helpful, but not required. This section of Structuring Transactions will provide students with an introduction to what will be expected of them in corporate practice in a private firm, utilizing a private equity leveraged acquisition setting for this purpose. Topics that are expected to be covered (time permitting) include some private equity industry history (viewed from the professor?s personal experiences), the economic rationale for the leveraged acquisition deal, how the basic leveraged deal is done, the acquisition transaction (private company, public company, or division or subsidiary of a larger company), senior and subordinated debt financings, equity arrangements in private equity deals, management incentive arrangements, industry consolidations, and deal process and closings. Relevant legal considerations will be examined, but the emphasis will be on the practical and market considerations involved in these deals. Assignments are intended to simulate the conditions encountered by new associates interacting with a senior partner on client projects, and will include document review and document drafting assignments, as well as a research project. Method of evaluation: Grades will be based on in-class and hand-in writing assignments, as well as classroom participation and attendance. Graduation writing requirements: Drafting assignments and other written work do not meet any of the Law School's graduation writing requirements.