Financing Growth Companies - NYU



Financing Growth Companies:

Assignments

Prof. Ian Giddy, New York University

Assignment 1: Dot-com-fax

.comfax is an Internet start-up company experiencing rapid growth, financial strains and no immediate prospect of making money. As a WestLB Panmure banker, what would you recommend?

Assignment 2: Silipos Medical

Silipos Inc. is a leader in medical treatments associated with prosthetics. It needs to finance a major international expansion. What do you recommend?

Assignment 3: IntraLinks

Please read the case study, considering the questions raised by the company’s CEO. Then, with two partners, discuss and list the three most important ways in which you, representing WestLB Panmure, could help the company.

Assignment 4: Mindspring Enterprises

Please examine the summary financial statements of Mindspring, and seek to address the key questions that concern CFOs of growth companies.

Assignment 5: SAP

How would you determine the answers to the key questions concerning the proportion and nature of debt financing in this company?

Assignment 1: Dot-com-fax

.comfax is an Internet start-up company experiencing rapid growth, financial strains and no immediate prospect of making money. As a WestLB Panmure banker, what would you recommend?

Assignment 2: Silipos Medical

Silipos Inc. is a leader in medical treatments associated with prosthetics. It needs to finance a major international expansion. What do you recommend?

Assignment 3: IntraLinks

Please read the case study, considering the questions raised by the company’s CEO. Then, with two partners, discuss and list the three most important ways in which you, representing WestLB Panmure, could help the company.

Assignment 4: Mindspring Enterprises

Please examine the summary financial statements of Mindspring, and seek to address the key questions that concern CFOs of growth companies.

1. How fast can we grow? How do we need to invest to grow? Acquisitions?

2. How should we finance the growth stage? What kind of equity? What’s our exit plan? Private or public?

3. How much debt should we have?

4. What kind of debt should we have? Maturity? Fixed/floating? Currency? Asset-backed? Hybrids, such as convertibles?

5. How should we measure and manage our financial risks?

Assignment 5: SAP

How would you determine the answers to the key questions concerning the proportion and nature of debt financing in this company?

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