M&A Specialist Course
Program director:
Mr. Enrique Ortega Burgos
Campus:
Madrid
Date:
May 2027
LANGUAGE:
Spanish
Major corporate transactions demand strategic vision—become an M&A expert.
The M&A Specialist Course is designed for those who want to master one of the most dynamic and strategic areas of law and business. This unique program integrates legal, tax, labor, and financial knowledge to provide a comprehensive perspective on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and financing processes that define corporate activity in competitive markets.
Through a practical methodology focused on real cases and the experience of active professionals, you will develop the skills to participate confidently in complex negotiations, structure strategic transactions, and conduct risk analysis. This program prepares you to take on high-impact roles in specialized law firms, consulting companies, and corporate legal departments, strengthening your profile as a professional capable of leading high-value corporate operations.
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Introduction and objectives
This Specialist Course is unique in Spain as it combines tax, labour and commercial issues with financial, economic and business aspects that are normally studied separately. There are no other programs in the market that address these issues in a unitary manner.
We have a programme that trains genuine M&A specialists in accordance with the parameters sought by companies and that significantly improves the profile of candidates for positions in the corporate area.
The experience acquired in the different editions confirms that the creation of this programme effectively responds to a latent need in law firms, consulting firms and companies. The programme is also very well received and highly employable in the market, with the support of prestigious firms that are looking for experts to join their companies.
The programmes, aimed at professionals and students in the legal and economic branches, address this type of operation from the point of view of the practical experience of the speakers, including the new features of the current economic situation and the future trends of this type of operation to address the challenges that will arise in the coming years.
There is no better training approach than transmitting what the speaker usually does, receives and/or expects to receive from the professionals working with him/her. This course brings together the legal and economic keys to corporate movements to enable attendees to become fully immersed in the mechanisms of acquisition, restructuring and corporate financing.
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Structure, location and calendar
120 hours of classes, given on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, between May and July.
At ISDE headquarters, 208 Serrano Street.
Career Opportunities
- National and international law firms.
- International consultants.
- Corporate legal advice to companies.
- Business and investment banks.
- Venture capital entities, funds, management companies and investment companies.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
BUSINESS AND ASSET SALES
- Main commercial aspects of business and asset sales.
- Negotiations and preliminary discussions. Letters of Intent, framework agreements, MOUs. Liabilities for pre-contractual acts.
- Instruments for acquiring businesses and financing the operation.
- The business purchase agreement.
- Acquiring minority stakes in businesses and the subsequent acquisition.
- Shareholder agreements in business acquisitions.
- Main labor and social security aspects in business sales. Business succession.
- Main tax aspects of business and asset sales.
- Main tax aspects of real estate asset sales.
- Main tax aspects of leveraged buyouts (LBOs).
- Fundamentals and methods of business and asset valuation.
- Fundamentals and methods of real estate asset valuation.
- Sale of businesses in crisis.
- Organization of the sale process. Preparatory operations. Beauty Contest. Vendor due diligence.
- The price. Components. Elements and structures of the price.
- Venture capital: private equity and venture capital. Tax, commercial, administrative, and operational aspects.
BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING
- Structural modifications.
- Spin-offs and global transfers of assets and liabilities.
- Mergers.
- Special mergers.
- Cross-border mergers.
- Demergers.
- LBO (Leveraged Buyouts). Legal, tax (optimization), and commercial analysis.
- Financial assistance.
- Labor issues in business restructuring processes.
- Tax regime for restructuring operations.
- Calculation of the exchange ratio in a merger process.
- Synergies in business integration operations.
- Horizontal and vertical integrations: business perspective.
- Control of business concentrations within the EU.
- Control of business concentrations at the national level.
- Economic analysis of business concentration operations.
*The academic program is subject to modifications.
FACULTY
| Enrique Ortega | Master’s Director |
| Juan Piquer | Valencian Institute of Infertility (IVI) |
| Jorge Rabadán Villanueva | KoanaLabs |
| Borja Afán de Rivera | Bergé |
| Juan Millet | RIC Private Equity |
| Francisco Palacios | Baker McKenzie |
| María Jesús Dehesa | Ontier |
| Cristina Cruz | Main Legal |
| Álvaro Bermejo | PWC |
| Santiago Lardiés | Bird & Bird |
| Luis Vegas | Evergreen |
| Juan Jimenez Laiglesia | Pérez Llorca |
| Ceyhún N. Pehivan | Linklaters |
| Tamara Wegmann | Heritage B |
| Eduardo Muñoz del Caz | Muñoz del Caz Abogados |
| Carlos Vital | Bergé |
| Rafael Saenz | CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo |
| Alberto López Cazalilla | Elzaburu |
| Javier Rubio | Uría & Menéndez |
| Moraad Maanan | Carles & Cuesta |
*The cloister is subject to change
ACCREDITED DEGREE
Once the relevant Program has concluded and ISDE has verified that the STUDENT has completed their work satisfactorily, the STUDENT will receive the corresponding Degree certificate for each PROGRAM.
In compliance with current legality and, specifically, as set forth in article 4.4 of decree 84/2004, it is noted that ISDE’s programs are professionally oriented and therefore, unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are courses that do not lead to the acquisition of a title with official value, but to that of a proprietary title from ISDE.