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Capital Under Stress: Restructuring with Lenders, DFIs and Bondholders

For leaders of African groups facing financial stress. Learn to map your capital structure, use the early window, build a credible plan, work three creditor tables, control disclosure and honour directors' duties. Then prove it in a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦250,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, finance chiefs, general counsel, chairs and directors of African groups with bank, bond or development-finance debt that may need restructuring.

What you will learn

  • Draw a checked creditor map: ranking, security, guarantees, cross-defaults, governing law and the maturity wall
  • Spot the warning signs, measure your window and set triggers that start action before a payment is missed
  • Build a credible restructuring story: sustainable debt, base and downside cases, an independent review and one data room
  • Choose and control advisers, and manage conflicts through independent directors
  • Work three tables: bank syndicates, development lenders and bondholder groups, treating all fairly
  • Control disclosure, restricted periods and cleansing, and speak to staff, suppliers and press safely
  • Recognise the duties and the lines near insolvency, keep protective records, and design a deal that lasts

Course outline

  1. Reading your own capital structure
  2. The warning signs and the early window
  3. Building the restructuring story and the numbers
  4. The advisers you need and what they cost
  5. Bank groups, development lenders and bondholders: three tables
  6. Negotiating from a position of facts
  7. Information, disclosure and the rules on what you may say
  8. Directors’ duties near insolvency, and the lines you do not cross
  9. Operating through it, and the deal that lasts
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days