Investment Banking and International Finance
Summer Program
When?
On-Campus: June 16 - 27 Summer 2025
Applications will open towards the end of the year for Summer 2025.
We invite you to pre-register your interest for 2025 to be alerted when the application portal opens.
WHY THIS SUMMER PROGRAM?
- Created and taught by leading HEC Paris Professors
- Courses based on real-life and recent case studies
- Leading guest speakers during case-study discussions
- Earn an HEC Paris Certificate following successful completion of the program.
- HEC Paris expertise in Finance: award-winning programs, number one Masters in Finance Pre-experience 2023 (QS Ranking)
OVERVIEW
The globalized economy creates increasing demand for professionals with well-established international corporate finance expertise. Combining fundamental learning and real-life practice, the course prepares students to undertake careers in investment banking, or corporate finance areas. Through both ready-to-use tools and practical knowledge, participants will be able to implement finance strategies and make appropriate decisions. The intensive summer program addresses the following topics:
- Financial analysis
- Valuation
- Start-up Valuation and Fund raising
- Debt and Hybrid financing
- Development Financing
- Window Dressing
- M&A and Brand Valuation.
Students will benefit from the experience of leading guest speakers who may include CEOs, Chief Financial Officers and Investment Bankers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of the summer program, participants will be able to:
- Apply Investment Banking tools successfully
- Recognize key accounting principles and links among the 3 main financial statements
- Analyze a company’s financial performance
- Understand company decisions on capital structure
- Ascertain how company stakeholders work together despite diverging interests
- Identify the ways companies raise funds (debt and equity) as well as the associated costs
- Comprehend the methods CFOs/CEOs and Investment Bankers use to value companies
- Identify key drivers of M&A transactions
- Analyze an M&A transaction
- Understand the purpose of leveraged buyouts (LBOs), their structure and means of success.
Pre-requisites
This intermediate program welcomes motivated, ambitious participants with at least 2 years of undergraduate studies in a related field, such as Economics, Corporate Finance or Accounting, at the time of the program. A first domain-related internship experience may be beneficial. This program is more technical than Corporate Finance.
Assessment
Participants will be evaluated based on the following:
- final exam
- team business projects
Participants who successfully complete the program will earn 5 ECTS credits.
All students who are seeking credit are encouraged to consult their home academic institution to validate credit transfer.
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