Private Equity and Venture Capital

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the institutional mechanics of private equity and venture capital, including limited partners, general partners, fund economics, and lifecycle phases.
• 2 Understand fund structures such as closed-end and open-end vehicles, and examine how waterfall distributions align investor and manager incentives.
• 3 Apply deal sourcing strategies and conduct financial, commercial, legal, and operational due diligence in private market transactions.
• 4 Analyze valuation approaches including DCF, comparable companies, precedent transactions, and venture capital methods for early-stage firms.
• 5 Develop leveraged buyout structures and evaluate debt capacity, refinancing risk, and cash flow coverage in acquisition finance.
• 6 Interpret venture capital term sheets, including liquidation preferences, anti-dilution provisions, board composition, and vesting schedules.
• 7 Implement value creation initiatives in portfolio companies through operational improvement, governance reform, and strategic repositioning.
• 8 Assess risk in private markets using risk rating frameworks, stress testing, concentration limits, and portfolio construction methods.
• 9 Measure fund performance with MOIC, IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI, and prepare investor reporting for quarterly and annual cycles.
• 10 Explore exit pathways including IPOs, trade sales, secondary buyouts, and recapitalizations, and plan exit timing for return optimization.
• 11 Understand regulatory compliance under SEC, FINRA, FCA, IFRS, GAAP, SOX, and AML frameworks, and apply ethical standards in private capital.
• 12 Discover emerging trends including continuation vehicles, fund secondaries, impact investing, ESG integration, and private credit expansion.