Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

✍ Scribed by Chandrashekar Krishnamurti, S R Vishwanath

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A rigorous and relevant book on mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring for students and practitioners of finance. The key features of this work are: - It covers the entire spectrum of activities in a typical merger transaction - starting from searching for candidates to closing the deal. - Topics discussed include rationale for diversification via acquisition, searching for acquisitions, valuation of publicly and privately held companies, design of consideration in acquisitions, crossborder acquisitions and empirical data on mergers. - The book covers various forms of corporate restructuring like spin offs, carve outs, targeted stocks, reorganization of debt contracts, lay offs and downsizing. - It contains numerous real life examples and summarizes much of the research done in the last 20 years.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 19
Diversification via Acquisition......Page 22
Searching for Acquisitions......Page 44
Value Drivers and Target Valuation......Page 77
Valuation of Privately-Held Companies......Page 112
Real Options Analysis in Mergers and Acquisitions......Page 136
Design of Consideration in Acquisitions: Cash and Stock Offers......Page 167
Accounting and Tax Factors in Mergers and Acquisitions......Page 181
Cross-Border Acquisitions......Page 204
The Empirical Evidence on Mergers......Page 233
Takeover Defenses......Page 269
Spin-Offs, Equity Carve-Outs and Targeted Stocks......Page 296
Bankruptcy and Reorganization......Page 354
Employee Share Ownership......Page 379
About the Editors and Contributors Plans......Page 428
Index......Page 432