In this part, we will examine the issues an investment banker deals with on a daily basis when assisting a company in its strategic decisions, which include:

• organising a group;
• launching an IPO (initial public offering);
• selling assets, a subsidiary or the company;
• merging or demerging;
• restructuring and more.

We do hope that our readers will not spend whole nights on these topics, unlike investment bankers!

This section also sets out some ideas on the financing of start-ups. This might not be what investment bankers like doing most, unless they have to reinvent themselves as an entrepreneur, investor, or business angel!

As you will soon realise, financial engineering raises and solves many questions of corporate governance.