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M&a Due Diligence: The Practitioner's Masterclass
Published 5/2026
Created by John Colley
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All Levels | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 25 Lectures ( 3h 14m ) | Size: 3.42 GB[/center]
Learn M&A due diligence the way senior deal professionals do - real cases, real frameworks, real skills
What you'll learn
⚡ Apply a nine-step due diligence methodology across financial, commercial, legal, and operational workstreams from data room to close
⚡ Build and challenge a Quality of Earnings analysis, identifying EBITDA adjustments that swing deal valuations by millions
⚡ Conduct commercial due diligence that independently verifies market size, competitive position, and customer concentration risk
⚡ Coordinate parallel DD workstreams and triage all findings into deal-breakers, price adjustments, and contractual protections
⚡ Build a valuation waterfall that translates every diligence finding into a quantified adjustment to enterprise value
⚡ Translate findings into specific SPA protections - indemnities, closing conditions, working capital mechanisms, and escrow arrangements
⚡ Manage the sign-to-close gap and protect deal value between signing and completion
⚡ Apply the five principles of deal-protective diligence across any deal size, sector, or market condition
Requirements
❗ Basic understanding of financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement)
❗ Familiarity with M&A terminology - enterprise value, EBITDA, deal multiples - at a high level
❗ No prior due diligence experience required - the course builds methodically from first principles
❗ No advanced modelling skills required - this course focuses on judgment and deal protection, not Excel mechanics
Description
The biggest gap in M and A professional development is not technical modelling - it is practical deal judgment.
Every training programme teaches you to build models. Almost none teach you the skills that actually determine whether deals succeed or fail: reading a Quality of Earnings report, triaging fifteen findings into three risk themes, building a valuation waterfall, translating those risks into SPA protections, and managing the gap between signing and close.
This course closes that gap.
Artificial Intelligence was utilised to expedite the preparation of this course.
What You Will Work Through
Across twenty-two structured teaching lectures and a complete running case study - Vanguard Partners' buy-side acquisition of Summit Industrial Services in the industrial services sector - you will work an entire acquisition using the same nine-step methodology used on live deals
✨ Design a structured due diligence process across five parallel workstreams - Financial, Commercial, Legal, Operational, and People
✨ Read and challenge a Quality of Earnings report, identifying EBITDA adjustments that swing valuations by millions
✨ Decompose revenue and build the customer quality matrix, spotting the concentration risk buried in Summit's top-10 customers
✨ Build the three-stage EBITDA bridge and apply the normalisation tests that separate legitimate add-backs from aggressive ones
✨ Analyse working capital, set a fair NWC peg, and identify the seasonal manipulation in Summit's accounts
✨ Reconcile EBITDA to free cash flow and build the enterprise-to-equity bridge using the debt-like items checklist
✨ Conduct commercial DD - independent market sizing, competitive positioning, customer quality assessment using the four-lens framework
✨ Review contracts for legal deal-killers - change-of-control triggers, IP gaps, missing non-competes - without needing a law degree
✨ Assess operational and people risk - legacy IT, cybersecurity exposure, key person dependencies, cultural compatibility
✨ Coordinate parallel workstreams and triage every finding into deal-breakers, price chips, or contractual protections
✨ Write the exception-based DD memo that investment committee decision-makers can act on in thirty minutes
✨ Build the valuation waterfall that integrates every finding into an adjusted enterprise value range
✨ Translate findings into SPA mechanisms - indemnities, escrow, closing conditions, working capital adjustments
✨ Manage the sign-to-close gap and protect deal value between signing and completion
✨ Apply the five principles of deal-protective diligence across any deal, sector, or market condition
The Practitioner Toolkit
Every lecture delivers downloadable resources - case study briefs, cliff notes, infographics, presenter scripts, NotebookLM source documents, and slide decks. You leave the course with the working files of an experienced deal team: a master due diligence checklist, a comprehensive glossary, the workstream architecture template, and the practitioner toolkit you can deploy on your next mandate.
Practice Under Pressure - AI Role-Plays
Throughout the course you face a series of high-stakes conversations powered by Udemy's AI Role-Play system. You convince a VP to sign off your DD plan. You challenge Summit's CFO on twelve EBITDA adjustments. You extract a hidden cybersecurity breach from a former Head of IT in a thirty-minute reference call. You defend the deal to a Senior Partner before Investment Committee. You interrogate the target CEO about an undisclosed disclosure failure. Each role-play tests judgment, not memorisation - because that is what the work actually requires.
What Makes This Course DifferentSingle Running Case Study. Every concept is applied to one acquisition - Vanguard / Summit Industrial Services - so you see how findings accumulate, connect, and flow through to deal protections. No abstract theory. Every lecture delivers a skill you can use on your next deal.
Practitioner-Led. Built on thirty years of live M and A transactions across multiple sectors and deal sizes, from mid-market acquisitions to billion-pound cross-border deals. The frameworks, checklists, and judgment calls reflect what actually happens in real transactions, not what textbooks describe.
Practice, Not Theory. AI role-plays test the skills that matter - questioning, calibration, negotiation, defending under pressure. The skills that separate analysts who fill templates from analysts who protect capital.
Who this course is for
⭐ Investment banking analysts and associates running M&A deals who want a proven methodology for financial, commercial, and legal due diligence
⭐ Private equity professionals and corporate development teams responsible for buy-side diligence who need to convert findings into deal protections
⭐ M&A advisers, corporate finance professionals, and management consultants wanting structured frameworks for evaluating acquisition targets
⭐ CFOs and finance directors overseeing acquisitio
⭐ MB A students and finance professionals targeting investment banking or PE roles who need real practitioner knowledge beyond financial modelling
M&a Due Diligence: The Practitioner's Masterclass
Published 5/2026
Created by John Colley
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All Levels | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 25 Lectures ( 3h 14m ) | Size: 3.42 GB[/center]
Learn M&A due diligence the way senior deal professionals do - real cases, real frameworks, real skills
What you'll learn
⚡ Apply a nine-step due diligence methodology across financial, commercial, legal, and operational workstreams from data room to close
⚡ Build and challenge a Quality of Earnings analysis, identifying EBITDA adjustments that swing deal valuations by millions
⚡ Conduct commercial due diligence that independently verifies market size, competitive position, and customer concentration risk
⚡ Coordinate parallel DD workstreams and triage all findings into deal-breakers, price adjustments, and contractual protections
⚡ Build a valuation waterfall that translates every diligence finding into a quantified adjustment to enterprise value
⚡ Translate findings into specific SPA protections - indemnities, closing conditions, working capital mechanisms, and escrow arrangements
⚡ Manage the sign-to-close gap and protect deal value between signing and completion
⚡ Apply the five principles of deal-protective diligence across any deal size, sector, or market condition
Requirements
❗ Basic understanding of financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement)
❗ Familiarity with M&A terminology - enterprise value, EBITDA, deal multiples - at a high level
❗ No prior due diligence experience required - the course builds methodically from first principles
❗ No advanced modelling skills required - this course focuses on judgment and deal protection, not Excel mechanics
Description
The biggest gap in M and A professional development is not technical modelling - it is practical deal judgment.
Every training programme teaches you to build models. Almost none teach you the skills that actually determine whether deals succeed or fail: reading a Quality of Earnings report, triaging fifteen findings into three risk themes, building a valuation waterfall, translating those risks into SPA protections, and managing the gap between signing and close.
This course closes that gap.
Artificial Intelligence was utilised to expedite the preparation of this course.
What You Will Work Through
Across twenty-two structured teaching lectures and a complete running case study - Vanguard Partners' buy-side acquisition of Summit Industrial Services in the industrial services sector - you will work an entire acquisition using the same nine-step methodology used on live deals
✨ Design a structured due diligence process across five parallel workstreams - Financial, Commercial, Legal, Operational, and People
✨ Read and challenge a Quality of Earnings report, identifying EBITDA adjustments that swing valuations by millions
✨ Decompose revenue and build the customer quality matrix, spotting the concentration risk buried in Summit's top-10 customers
✨ Build the three-stage EBITDA bridge and apply the normalisation tests that separate legitimate add-backs from aggressive ones
✨ Analyse working capital, set a fair NWC peg, and identify the seasonal manipulation in Summit's accounts
✨ Reconcile EBITDA to free cash flow and build the enterprise-to-equity bridge using the debt-like items checklist
✨ Conduct commercial DD - independent market sizing, competitive positioning, customer quality assessment using the four-lens framework
✨ Review contracts for legal deal-killers - change-of-control triggers, IP gaps, missing non-competes - without needing a law degree
✨ Assess operational and people risk - legacy IT, cybersecurity exposure, key person dependencies, cultural compatibility
✨ Coordinate parallel workstreams and triage every finding into deal-breakers, price chips, or contractual protections
✨ Write the exception-based DD memo that investment committee decision-makers can act on in thirty minutes
✨ Build the valuation waterfall that integrates every finding into an adjusted enterprise value range
✨ Translate findings into SPA mechanisms - indemnities, escrow, closing conditions, working capital adjustments
✨ Manage the sign-to-close gap and protect deal value between signing and completion
✨ Apply the five principles of deal-protective diligence across any deal, sector, or market condition
The Practitioner Toolkit
Every lecture delivers downloadable resources - case study briefs, cliff notes, infographics, presenter scripts, NotebookLM source documents, and slide decks. You leave the course with the working files of an experienced deal team: a master due diligence checklist, a comprehensive glossary, the workstream architecture template, and the practitioner toolkit you can deploy on your next mandate.
Practice Under Pressure - AI Role-Plays
Throughout the course you face a series of high-stakes conversations powered by Udemy's AI Role-Play system. You convince a VP to sign off your DD plan. You challenge Summit's CFO on twelve EBITDA adjustments. You extract a hidden cybersecurity breach from a former Head of IT in a thirty-minute reference call. You defend the deal to a Senior Partner before Investment Committee. You interrogate the target CEO about an undisclosed disclosure failure. Each role-play tests judgment, not memorisation - because that is what the work actually requires.
What Makes This Course DifferentSingle Running Case Study. Every concept is applied to one acquisition - Vanguard / Summit Industrial Services - so you see how findings accumulate, connect, and flow through to deal protections. No abstract theory. Every lecture delivers a skill you can use on your next deal.
Practitioner-Led. Built on thirty years of live M and A transactions across multiple sectors and deal sizes, from mid-market acquisitions to billion-pound cross-border deals. The frameworks, checklists, and judgment calls reflect what actually happens in real transactions, not what textbooks describe.
Practice, Not Theory. AI role-plays test the skills that matter - questioning, calibration, negotiation, defending under pressure. The skills that separate analysts who fill templates from analysts who protect capital.
Who this course is for
⭐ Investment banking analysts and associates running M&A deals who want a proven methodology for financial, commercial, and legal due diligence
⭐ Private equity professionals and corporate development teams responsible for buy-side diligence who need to convert findings into deal protections
⭐ M&A advisers, corporate finance professionals, and management consultants wanting structured frameworks for evaluating acquisition targets
⭐ CFOs and finance directors overseeing acquisitio
⭐ MB A students and finance professionals targeting investment banking or PE roles who need real practitioner knowledge beyond financial modelling
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