You will negotiate deals. You will advise clients on transactions. You will be in rooms where financial statements, valuations, and term sheets are on the table. Prairie Mountain Partners’ free webinar series gives you the accounting, finance, valuation, and negotiation fundamentals you need to show up prepared; not just as a lawyer, but as a trusted advisor.
Explore topics below and secure your spot!
-
Accounting Unlocked gives articling students and summer associates a practical foundation in reading and interpreting financial statements. This session is not about preparing financial statements or learning accounting theory. It is about understanding what the numbers say, how the statements connect, and what they reveal about a business.
Participants will learn how to review financial statements the way lawyers, clients, lenders, investors, and deal teams use them in practice. The session will focus on how to identify key trends, understand changes in performance, and recognize the business implications that matter in legal work.
-
Finance Decoded cuts through the jargon and focuses on what actually matters. How companies raise capital, how lenders and investors think, and how financial decisions shape the transactions you will be advising on.
Participants will leave with the ability to follow the financial logic of a deal, ask the right questions, and understand what your client is really facing when the numbers are on the table.
-
Valuation Essentials builds a grounded understanding of how businesses get priced in the real world. Whether it comes up in an acquisition, a shareholder dispute, or an estate matter, valuation is rarely straightforward. Knowing how to engage with it critically is a skill most lawyers wish they had developed earlier.
Participants will leave knowing how to challenge assumptions, understand what methodology is being applied and why, and hold their own in any conversation where a number on a business is being debated.
-
Negotiation Fundamentals offers a practitioner's perspective on what actually happens in a deal room. Strategy, leverage, and timing look very different in practice than they do in a classroom. The lawyers who understand that distinction show up differently for their clients.
Participants will leave with a sharper instinct for when to push, when to concede, and how to keep a deal moving without losing ground on what matters.