In-House Corporate Training Seminars

Hooke Associates provides corporations the ability to offer in-house training seminars to corporate staff. These seminars are custom-designed for the specific needs of the corporation and for the exact nature of the audience.

Jeff Hooke brings 25 years of U.S. and international deal experience, along with his skill in explaining financial and investment topics to corporate mangers. In contrast, virtually all executive training seminars at business schools are taught by professors with little or no practical experience. Meanwhile, profit-oriented seminar companies offer "canned" programs that don't fit the specialized requirements of the client and its personnel.

Don't waste your executives' time with inappropriate training seminars! Hooke Associates can create custom-tailored solutions for your audience at a reasonable price.

Featured topics at prior seminars included M&A, Valuation, Security Analysis and the Emerging Markets. Mr. Hooke has written well regarded books on each of these topics.

Mergers & Acquisitions

A Hooke Associates seminar can cover the "nuts and bolts" of designing a successful acquisition program, from beginning the search process, to valuing a target, to calculating the pro forma value effect on your company, to closing the deal.

Corporate Valuation and Security Analysis

As a Wall Street executive who has worked on many initial public offerings, major acquisitions, and private equity placements, Jeff Hooke brings a practical, "real world" perspective to the art of valuation in his seminars. His book, Security Analysis on Wall Street, has sold thousands of copies to investment professionals, financial executives and corporate managers.

Emerging Markets

American companies have lost billions in attempting to establish operations in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Similarly, U.S. mutual funds have lost huge sums in buying the securities of corporations active in these areas. A contributing factor to these losses has been the inexperience of managers and investors, who frequently apply U.S. and European business practices to Third World countries, despite the different ground rules governing the way business is done there. Jeff Hooke explains the opportunities and pitfalls of the emerging markets, as well as ways to lessen the risk.

Hooke Associates has conducted successful seminars for:

Capital One Corporation (NYSE Symbol, COF)
Fulcrum Information Services
International Finance Corporation (World Bank)
Little Harbor Group (private equity firm)
National Investor Relations Executives Association
New York Institute of Finance
Violy Byorum & Partners (New York investment bank)

Mr. Hooke has been an adjunct professor at the business schools of University of Maryland, Georgetown University and George Washington University, teaching M&A, valuation and security analysis. He has lectured at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and other business schools. He has lectured on M&A and valuation in Columbia, the Netherlands and Singapore.

"Jeff's broad experience was essential to deliver the breadth of knowledge encompassed in our customized M&A program."
-- Sunil Pai, Capital One Corporation (Richmond, Virginia)

"His practical experience in closing transactions was a huge asset in the M&A seminar for our associates,"
-- Ben Moody, Senior Vice President, Violy Byorum & Partners (New York)

"Few people can explain the analysis and mechanics of emerging market loans and equity investments better than Jeff Hooke,"
-- George Tannous, Assistant Director, The World Bank Group (Washington DC)

If you are interested in an in-house corporate training seminar, click jhooke@hookeassociates.com.