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• Title in French: Finance d'entreprise
• Course code: tba
• Type: specialized course
• ECTS credits: 4
• Semester 10 (Spring)
• Teaching period: Mid-February to Mid-April
• Teaching hours: 100h
• Language of instruction: English and French
• Coordinator: tba
• Instructor(s): Amaury Schoenauer (Monte Cristo Advisory), Mehdi El Alaoui (World Bank IFC), Benoît Forgues (Rgreen), Olivier Vandooren (Sigée Finance), Lilian Lancelot (Caisse des dépôts), sitraka Forler (Post Luxembourg), Lirone Samoun (smartpush).
• Last update 22/05/2026 by C. Pouet

This course unit is divided into four parts:

• Structured finance (24 hours) taught by Amaury Schoenauer,
• Project finance (24 hours) taught by Mehdi El Alaoui, Benoît Forgues and Olivier Vandooren,
• Workshop in corporate finance (24 hours) taught by Lilian Lancelot,
• Data Project: modeling and validation (20 hours) taught by Sitraka Forler and Lirone Samoun.

• Know how to build a financial model and challenge its assumptions
• Understand how these operations can allow for financing large industrial projects
• Know the advantage and drawbacks of PPPs
• Understand how bankers can manage risks using structured finance
• Know the advantages and drawbacks of structured operations
• Understanding the specificities of start-up financing and advising

1. Main market players and rationale for using structured finance
2. Promoters Credits
   • Understanding the Promoter's logic
   • Understanding Credit Risk
   • Assessing the risks for the banker
3. Investor Credit
   • Conceptualization
   • Leverage and Loan to Value (LTV)
   • Debt Service Cover Ratio (DSCR) and Interest Cover Ratio (ICR)
   • Slicing of Debt
4. Due diligence and points of vigilance of the banker
   • Leases and Rental Conditions
   • Valuation Report
5. Other operations
6. Perspectives on Market Finance (Securitization)

1. The main steps of project finance
   • Tender
   • Structuring
   • Optimization
2. Financial modelling
   • The issue of circularity
   • Internal rate of return and gearing ratio
   • Case study
3. The case of renewable energy projects
   • Prices and costs of renewables
   • Bank versus funds
   • How to set the price of a project?

1. Financial modelling using Excel
2. Advising start-ups (on their business model and in making them viable)
3. Projects with real start-ups

1. Projects and models
   • The Bias-Variance tradeoff
   • Feature Selection
   • Feature Engineering
   • Defining a metric
2. Models and applications
   • Regressions (linear, polynomial, penalized and logistic)
   • Decision trees (random forest and gradient boosting)
3. Focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP)

You can check the availability of the books below at Centrale Méditerranée library.

1. Structured finance
   • Vernimmen, P. (2021). Finance d’entreprise. Dalloz.
2. Project finance
   • Vernimmen, P. (2021). Finance d’entreprise. Dalloz.
3. Workshop in corporate finance
   • Vernimmen, P. (2021). Finance d’entreprise. Dalloz.