
Mergers and Acquisitions Basics
All You Need To Know
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Key Features
- Includes all participants, from investment bankers to accountants and business managers
- Emphasizes the interactive natures of decisions about assets, payments, and appropriate legal structures
- Bases conclusions on empirical evidence, not experience and opinion
- Features a recent business case at the end of each chapter
Readership
Students and professionals around the world who are studying or working in mergers and acquisitions. The book is especially useful for readers who seek material that lies between intensive and superficial coverage of these subjects. It requires only passing acquaintance with finance, economics, business law, and accounting.
Table of Contents
M&A Basics
1. Introduction to Negotiating Mergers and Acquisitions
2. Selecting the Form of Acquisition Vehicle and Post-Closing Organization
3. Selecting the Form of Payment
4. Selecting the Form of Acquisition
5. Tax Structures and Strategies
6. Accounting Considerations
7. Financing Structures and Strategies
8. The Role of Takeover Tactics and Defenses in the Negotiation Process
M&A Deal Structuring
1: Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions
2: What History Tells Us about M&A Performance
3: Developing Takeover Strategies and the Impact on Corporate Governance
4: Common Takeover Defenses
5: Key Players in Mergers and Acquisitions
6: Developing the Business Plan as the Initial Phase of the Merger and Acquisition Process
7: The Role of the Acquisition Plan, Finding a Target, and Making First Contact
8: The Negotiation through Closing Phases
9: Financing Transactions
10: M&A Post-Merger Integration
Product details
- No. of pages: 448
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2010
- Published: September 23, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press
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Donald DePamphilis

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