Publised Articles by the Professor Droussiotis
How to Value Priceless?, C.Droussiotis September 2019
The Use of Blockchain Tech for Non-financial Applications - February 2020
LBO Case - Green Landscape Services
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Published Books

An Analytical Approach to Investments, Finance and Credit Author: Chris
Droussiotis, Edition: Preliminary Edition, Publishing Company: Cognella Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-5165-4911-5 This text book is designed to
assist junior and senior year undergraduate students that are in the process of starting their careers in finance. It can
also be a reference guide to everything you need to know about investments, finance and credit. The author demostrates his
30+ years experience in investment banking and credit analysis working for large money center banks including Bank of America
Merril Lunch, CIBC World Markets and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Part 1 of the book introduces
the fundamental concepts of Investments and portfolio analysis including risk-and-return analysis, covariance, correlation,
and efficient frontiers, as well as other performance measurements such as beta coefficient via regression analysis, R-squared,
Sharpe Ratio, CAPM, Jensen’s Alpha, Treynor Measure, and M Squared. Part 2 of the book describes
in detail the primary markets including where the issuers go to raise capital such as stocks, bonds, 144As, private placements,
bank loans, private loans, and other loan syndicated facilities. The book uses various case studies for raising capital including
LBOs, M&A, and other capital market transactions. Part 3 describes the secondary markets where
the investor looks to invest in the equity and corporate bond exhange markets, as well as other unique markets such as the
credit and alternative investments insititutional funds that includes leveraged loans, CLOs, and other structured finance
products. The book also describes extensively the derivative
markets including uncovered and covered option strategies, futures, forwards, swaps, swaptions, CDAs, FRAs, and other exotic derivatives., Part 4 that includes 4 chapters is all about company specific
analysis in the areas of corporate finance, corporate valuations, and credit analysis. This section gives a comprehensive
overview of understanding financial statement analysis, how to build projections and run a valuation analysis (8 methods of
valuation) for all stages of company development. In the last chapter, the book describes in detail the process of credit
analysis and debt capacity. The
book also includes lots of case studies and gives the reader the access of various financial models in all areas of finance
through the Active Learning platform.
TEXTBOOK FLYER

COMING SOON (First Edition Release Date December 22, 2022) Credit
Risk Managment and Analysis The textbook, CREDIT
MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS published by Cognella Publishing company, provides a highly practical and relevant guide
to graduating students beginning their careers in banking. The authors apply their 60 plus years of combined experience in
banking and 15 years of teaching to effectively combine the core principals of an academic textbook with the practical training
that major money center banks provide to first-year credit analysts. This 600+ page textbook incorporates all the products
that major money center banks offer including Corporate Loans, Project Finance, Leasing, M&A and LBO financing, Real Estate,
and other asset-based products. Authors: Chris Droussiotis & Stuart Shelly, Edition:
Preliminary Edition, Publishing Company: Cognella Publishing - TO BE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 22

Mergers & Acquisitions -
A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Deals
13 professors got together last year and each wrote
one chapter based on their expertise. I wrote chapter 11 "Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs): The Financial Engineeing of
Transactions and Evolution of LBOS". The chief editor and author is Dr. Harvey Poniachec, my long life mentor and MBA
professor.
The survival and prosperity of any corporation over the long term depend on the company's ability to grow
and develop through a process of investment, restructuring, and redeployment. Since the late 19th century, mergers and acquisitions
(M&As) have become an essential vehicle for corporate change, fuelled by synergies that could arise from expansion of
sales and earnings, reduction in cost, and lower taxes and cost of capital. M&A
transactions, however, are complex and risky and are affected by the state business cycle, financial conditions, regulations,
and technology. Approximately two-thirds of all M&A deals fail. This book seeks to provide an effective and comprehensive
framework, predominantly embedded in corporate finance, for achieving greater success. Written by academics and practitioners,
it integrates business strategies with formal analysis relating to M&A deal making, providing a coherent statement on
M&A by utilizing scholarly work with best practices by industry. The
authors provide extensive analytical review and applications of the following critical M&A issues: valuation, leveraged
buyouts, payment methods and their implications, tax issues, corporate governance, and the regulatory environment, including
antitrust in M&A. The book globalizes the M&A model by extending it to cross-border business, risk and select hedging
methods, and addresses postmerger integration. This book is intended as a reading text for a course in M&A for undergraduates
and MBA programs, and for practitioners as a handbook.
Link to Amazon
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