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Home > Business & Economics > Investments & Securities > Mergers & Acquisitions > Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings-eBook

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings

Gaughan, Patrick A.

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Modern restructuring techniques for a global business landscape

Corporate restructurings are an indispensable tool in building a new generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global playing field. Written from a practical and historical perspective, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Fourth Edition carefully analyzes the strategies and motives that inspire M&As, the laws and rules that govern the field, as well as the offensive and defensive techniques of hostile acquisitions.

In this thoroughly revised Fourth Edition, author and business valuation expert Patrick Gaughan provides a fresh perspective on M&As in today's global business landscape, and how your company can reap the benefits from the various forms of restructurings available. Packed with the most up-to-date research, graphs, and case studies, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Fourth Edition explores:
* Recent takeover trends including the role of private equity firms and hedge funds
* Most effective offensive and defensive tactics in hostile bids
* A review of the effect of shareholder wealth on a variety of takeover actions
* Modern, historical, and global perspectives on the field
* The various forms of downsizing including divestitures, spinoffs, and equity carve-outs
* Bankruptcy as an effective restructuring technique
* Latest developments in corporate governance
* Pros and cons of joint ventures and strategic alliances
* Primary methods used to value public and private companies

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Title of ebook: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings
ISBN: 9780470135945
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 4711 kb
Pages: 648
Released online for download: 12-10-2007
Author of eBook: Gaughan, Patrick A.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings

Chapter One

Introduction

RECENT M&A TRENDS

The pace of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) picked up in the early 2000s after a short hiatus in 2001. The economic slowdown and recession in the United States and elsewhere in 2001 brought an end to the record-setting fifth merger wave. This period featured an unprecedented volume of M&As. It followed on the heels of a prior record-setting merger wave-the fourth. This one in the 1990s, however, was very different from its counterpart in the prior decade. The fifth wave was truly an international one and it featured a heightened volume of deals in Europe and, to some extent, Asia, in addition to the United States. The prior merger waves had been mainly a U.S. phenomenon. When the fourth merger wave ended with the 1990-91 recession, many felt that it would be a l ... read full excerpt from Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings ebook