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Designed for use in the Corporate Finance class, increasingly important in any skills-based curriculum, Corporate Finance, Third Edition features a strong coverage of M&A, bankruptcy, finance, and valuation. The valuation unit covers math from a lawyer’s perspective, focusing on the intuitions behind the valuation techniques in a way that will facilitate interaction with bankers and accountants in practice. Basic Excel skills are taught along the way.
New to the Third Edition:
Updated coverage of the effects of COVID-19 on finance
New chapters on swaps and CLOs
A new case study (iHeartMedia, Inc.) is integrated in the book from beginning to end
New and improved layout with chapter summaries and highlighting of key concepts
Professors and students will benefit from:
Practical, transactional approach to corporate finance
Organization around four basic units: valuation, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial distress
A focus on the quantitative tools on motivating and understanding the business and concepts
Extensive references to deal documents throughout to establish a theme of the actual transactions to compare to the lines of cases describing how deals go bad
Extensive teaching materials, including Excel spreadsheets and a full set of PowerPoint slides
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About the authors
Stephen J. Lubben
Seton Hall Law School
Stephen J. Lubben, holder of the Harvey Washington Wiley Chair in Corporate Governance Business Ethics at Seton Hall, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of corporate finance and governance, corporate restructuring, financial distress and debt. He is the author of a forthcoming textbook, to be published by Wolters Kluwer, on corporate finance, and a contributing author to the new Bloomberg Law on Bankruptcy treatise. He is also the In Debt columnist for theNew York Times Dealbook page. Professor Lubben grew up in west Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Irvine, where he majored in History and minored in Political Science. Following graduation from law school, Professor Lubben clerked for Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He then practiced in the New York and Los Angeles offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom LLP, where he represented parties in chapter 11 cases throughout the country. Since joining Seton Hall, Professor Lubben has presented his papers at academic conferences around the world and frequently provides commentary on chapter 11 and related issues for national and international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, and the BBC. He frequently advises government officials on potential legislative reforms, and has testified before Congress and the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel. He also is a regular contributor to Credit Slips, a blog started by a small group of bankruptcy experts. Professor Lubben is a member of the New York and California bars. He is also a member of the American Finance Association, the American Law and Economics Association, the International Insolvency Institute, and the European Association of Law and Economics.