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The Cross-Border Deal: From Due Diligence to Day 100 in African Acquisitions

For chief executives, directors, deal teams and integration leaders. Build a disciplined case, do diligence that finds the real company, structure and fund the deal, win approvals, protect key people and deliver the first hundred days.

  • Price₦270,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, directors, CFOs, deal teams and integration leaders of African and international companies buying across African markets.

What you will learn

  • Recognise why cross-border deals fail and set price and walk-away discipline
  • Build a business case and a valuation that survive challenge
  • Run risk-based due diligence and turn findings into price or protection
  • Structure the deal and allocate risk, currency and payment sensibly
  • Map and win regulatory, competition and exchange-control approvals
  • Protect key people, culture and the seller relationship
  • Fund the deal safely, run Day 1 and the first hundred days, and learn from the result

Course outline

  1. Why cross-border deals fail
  2. Strategy, valuation and price discipline
  3. Due diligence that finds the real company
  4. Structure, contracts and risk allocation
  5. Approvals, regulators and the state
  6. Founders, people and the seller relationship
  7. Funding, currency and the balance sheet
  8. Day 1 and the first hundred days
  9. Capturing value and learning
  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