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title: Investment Banking
description: Investment banking advises on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising. You will learn valuation, LBO and merger models, the deal process, the analyst recruiting path and the books and courses bankers actually use.
category: finance-economics
subcategory: corporate-finance
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Investment Banking

Investment banking advises on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising. You will learn valuation, LBO and merger models, the deal process, the analyst recruiting path and the books and courses bankers actually use.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. The Book of Jargon: US Corporate and Bank Finance

**Author:** Latham & Watkins LLP

Free glossary of more than 1,100 corporate and bank finance terms covering merger, leveraged finance, credit agreement and securities vocabulary, available online, as a PDF and as a mobile app. Written for juniors who meet deal slang before anyone defines it.
Deal vocabulary is the practical entry barrier to reading credit agreements, merger agreements and filings.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.lw.com/en/book-of-jargon/boj-us-corporate-and-bank-finance

**Tags:** deal-terminology, leveraged-finance, credit-agreements, mergers-acquisitions, glossary

### 2. Macabacus Learn: Operating, Merger and LBO Model Tutorials

Free step-by-step walkthroughs for building an operating model, a public-company merger model and an LBO model in Excel, plus downloadable DCF, merger, short-form and long-form LBO and IPO templates using banking formatting conventions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://macabacus.com/learn

**Tags:** financial-modeling, merger-model, lbo-model, excel, dcf

## Books

### 1. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

**Author:** Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Reporters' reconstruction of the 1988 RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout, following the auction from the management buyout proposal to KKR's winning bid, showing how bankers, boards, financing commitments and fee incentives behave inside a live deal.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060536357?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** leveraged-buyouts, private-equity, mergers-acquisitions, deal-history, kkr

### 2. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (3rd Edition)

**Author:** Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl

The standard practitioner text on banker valuation work: comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, LBO, merger and IPO analysis, worked step by step. The third edition ships with six downloadable Excel model templates matching the chapters.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119867878?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** valuation, comparable-companies, dcf, lbo-model, mergers-acquisitions, ipo

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