Investment Banking FOCUS NOTES provides a comprehensive, yet streamlined, review of the basic skills and concepts discussed in Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions, Second Edition. The focus notes are designed for use both as a companion to the book, as well as on a standalone basis. Investment Banking focuses on the primary valuation methodologies currently used on Wall Street-namely, comparable companies analysis, precedent transactions analysis, DCF analysis, and LBO analysis-as well as detailed M & A analysis from both a sell-side and buy-side perspec.