Investment Banking & Lease Financing

Course Code: FIN 415

Credit Hour: 3

Course Group: Specialization Courses: Finance

Leasing; Types, Comparison with Ownership; Economics of Leasing: Economic Rationale of Leasing, Evaluating the Cost of Leasing; Accounting Aspects of Lease Financing; Tax Aspects of Leasing: Factors indicating a Sale, Comparative analysis, Leveraged Leases, Equipment Lease Financing; Project Lease Financing; Sale and Lease Back in Real Estate; Investment Banking – Functions, Types, Industry Structure; Primary Market Making - Corporate Finance; Underwriting and Syndication; Secondary Market Making; Dealer-Broker Activity; Trading - Speculation and Arbitrage; Financial Engineering; Other Activities of Investment Bank - Advisory Investment Management and Merchant Banking; Funding and Risk Management; Laws Governing Investment Banking - Securities and Exchange Regulations (Merchant Banker and Portfolio Manager)1995; Investment Banking Process & IPOs - Under pricing, Long Run Performance of IPOs, Hot Issue Market; Securitization and Factoring: Asset Securitization, Debt Securitization, Factoring; Stock Price Indexing and Credit Rating.

Texts:

Baker and Hyes, Lease Financing, John Weily & Sons, New York, 1981.

Marshall and Ellis, Investment Banking and Brokerage – 1st Edition, McGraw Hill Inc., New York, 1995.

Joshua et al, Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions – 1st Edition, Wiley, 2009.