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Venture Capital

Date, Location, & Fees

Dec. 6 – 11, 2025
San Francisco, CA
$15,250
Mar. 22 – 27, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
$15,250

Description

This program will provide participants with a rigorous framework both to evaluate investment opportunities and to manage a multi-stage investment process in an innovative firm. Learn how to evaluate venture capital investment opportunities and do due diligence that will uncover pitfalls and mitigate risk.

Highlights & Benefits

  • Understand how to raise capital and design partnership agreements that enable effective relationships
  • Develop a systematic way to screen, analyze, and value high-growth investment opportunities in nascent industries
  • Acquire a framework to negotiate, price, and structure the best investor terms
  • Learn how to best navigate the shareholder’s agreement to avoid costly mistakes
  • Identify how and when to exit the investment

Audience

Angel investors, general and limited partners, and entrepreneurs seeking funding for their companies in their early stages of growth

Academic Director

Bilge Yilmaz, PhDWharton Private Equity Professor; Professor of Finance; Academic Director, Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, The Wharton School

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Distressed Asset Investing and Corporate Restructuring

Date, Location, & Fees

Aug. 11 – 15, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Description

Learn how to assess the long-term value of and investment opportunities in companies that are financially distressed. Become knowledgeable about the integral roles that business managers, professional investors, and banking advisors can play in restructuring corporate debt.

Highlights & Benefits

  • Understand how and why a company fails, and the turnaround process
  • Foresee signs of crisis in a firm’s financial statements
  • Identify the long-term value of and investment opportunities in distressed assets
  • Become knowledgeable about the roles of managers, investors, advisors, and consultants in restructuring debt
  • Hone negotiation skills to maximize returns of complex distressed situations

Audience

  • Senior-level executives at highly leveraged and private equity-owned companies
  • Portfolio managers and investment analysts for hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and large institutional investors
  • Corporate bankruptcy attorneys; second lien and workout lenders

Academic Director

N/A

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Private Equity: Investing and Creating Value

Date, Location, & Fees

Sep. 14 – 19, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$14,500
Feb. 1 – 6, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
$14,500

Description

Discover how to secure returns that outperform other asset classes by honing your expertise on private equity investments. Explore current strategies and leave with the ability to confidently evaluate, structure, and build profitable investments within the private equity space.

Highlights & Benefits

  • Review actual deal scenarios with Wharton faculty and industry experts for immediate feedback and input
  • Gain experience in navigating the complex arena of global private equity

Audience

Institutional investors and investment professionals aspiring to be better private equity managers

Academic Director

Bilge Yilmaz, PhDWharton Private Equity Professor; Professor of Finance; Academic Director, Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, The Wharton School

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