Private Equity Programme in Dubai

"Understand the private equity financing process"

The Private Equity programme combines academic rigour with real-world relevance, and explores a variety of private equity deals covering emerging markets, European and other international markets from legal, financial and operational standpoints. You are given the opportunity to truly understand the goings-on behind the scenes of private equity deals, which is necessary in order to develop the skills required in the industry.

The analysis presented in the programme is both compelling and thought provoking. The enhanced understanding you will gain of the 'what, why and how' of private equity, and the economic intuition underlying various market practices, will transform the way you deal with or manage private equity.

The programme covers a number of core themes:

• Mastering the basics
• Real-life learning
• End to end experience.

The benefits of attending this progamme:

• Participants are carefully selected, to ensure a diverse group of high calibre professionals from an array of international backgrounds. The result is a dynamic classroom experience as highly experienced professionals with varied backgrounds exchange views, meaning you gain a truly international perspective on various issues involving private equity.
• Your organisation will have the opportunity to gain a valuable network of business contacts.
• The examination of real-life business cases, and interactions with participants from all around the world, provides new insights

The programme is designed for professionals with a financial or operational background who wish to deepen their understanding of private equity. It will be of particular interest to:

• Fund managers, finance and investment professionals
• General and financial managers
• Private equity professional.

• Eli Talmor is Professor at London Business School and Chairman of its Private Equity Institute. He has extensively consulted to corporations internationally, and has been a director of European, and American corporations. He serves on the advisory boards of the African Venture Capital Association, ETV - a leading European venture lender and was also on the Board of Governors of London Business School.
   
• Professor Oliver Gottschalg is on the faculty of the Strategy Department at HEC School of Management, Paris. He also serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Track in the HEC MBA program, co-directs the HEC-INSEAD Buyout Research Group and teaches courses on strategy and management buyouts. He is a world authority on the strategic logic and the performance determinants of private equity investments and serves as an advisor to leading investors in the private equity industry. Most recently, he served as an advisor to the European Parliament in the context of the current debate about a possible need for regulation of the Private Equity industry.
   

Dates: 31 May - 2 June 2009

Please note that applications will have priority over reservations.  Applications will be added to the waiting list or held for consideration for the October 2008 programme in London.  

Fees: £3,500
(Faculty, dates and fees may be subject to change)