Corporate Investment Project: The Acquisition of Linkedin By Microsoft

Corporate Investment Project: The Acquisition of Linkedin By Microsoft

This paper is my dissertation from MSc Finance & Accounting. My main focus in this project is to assess the value of the acquisition, find out whether it made sense and understand the reasons behind the 50% premium of selling price (mostly through synergies). LinkedIn was publicly traded company before the acquisition which eases the data finding process. The standalone valuations of both LinkedIn and Microsoft are needed, and the acquisition capacity of Microsoft should be found. The analysis should me made through several methods of valuation such as Discounted Cash Flow, comparable company analysis, precedent transactions analysis, broker valuation, adjusted present value analysis, residual income analysis. The assumptions at the each analysis has to be made reasonably. Also, the dissertation needs post-merger integration analysis by spotting the cost and revenue synergies accuratelyhttp://writers-corp.net. Furthermore, the DCF analysis of synergies is needed to assess the combined valuation. In the attachments you can find the guideline of the dissertation, also there are five example papers from last year. They all contain a client specification section which is also needed in my paper. It will give you an idea on how the paper should be written. For the outline of the paper, you can refer to the five examples that I provided. The main sections such as company profiles, executive summary and industry, market and merger overviews, which are common in the five examples, need to be included in my dissertation as well. Also, the word count limit is 3000 words