Pocket MBA 2020: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals
Practising Law Institute
Pocket MBA is a hallmark program for attorneys whose careers have brought them into representing clients in the financial industry, but their background training lacked accounting principles and financial concepts. This program is designed to improve your understanding of business strategies, accounting fundamentals and vocabulary used by management, investors, auditors and bankers.
Hear directly from an experienced and diverse group of professionals from elite accounting firms and law firms, private equity investors, bankers, consultants and academics. Practical advice and application of information to actual situations and financial reports will provide participants with opportunities to immediately implement growth and broaden capabilities.
Mayer Brown partner Anna T. Pinedo will be presenting the Investment Banking Basics: Fundamentals of Capital Structures session on the second day of the program. Topics will include:
- Common financing alternatives — debt, equity and hybrids
- Sources of funding — public and private markets
- Liquidity — raising and deploying capital
- Finding the Optimal Capital Structure
- Current marketplace developments
