Training Sessions for Lawyers
Numbers for Lawyers 2026
Session 1 - Numerical Essentials
Build the core skills that underpin accurate drafting and confident decision-making:
- Fast, reliable mental arithmetic
- Estimating and sense checking numbers
- Percentages, ratios and fractions made simple
- VAT, compounding and indexation explained clearly
Session 2a - Real Estate applications
For real estate teams drafting leases, sale contracts, funding agreements and overage clauses.
We cover:
- Indexation clauses (and the traps to avoid)
- Profit and overage calculations with worked examples
- Time value of money, interest and inflation
- Yields, NPV, IRR and investment assessment
- Metric to imperial conversions your team will remember
- Probability and expected value for better commercial judgement
Session 2b – Commercial, Corporate & Finance: Numbers That Drive the Deal
We give lawyers clarity and confidence on the calculations that matter:
- Profit margins, ratios and break even analysis
- Shareholdings, cap tables, dilution and ratchets
- Interest calculations and drafting interest clauses that work
- Financial covenants and how lenders use them
- Investment assessment (yields, NPV, IRR)
- Probability and expected value for better risk decisions
Session 3 – Finance & Accounting: The Knowledge Behind Every Deal
To give you deeper commercial understanding of your deals.
We demystify:
- Financial statements and what they really show
- Double entry, accruals and cash vs profit
- Management accounts, budgets and performance ratios
- Transaction finance: DCF, comparables, M&A accounting, goodwill and consolidation
- Capital structure, cost of capital and how companies raise funds
