Mergers and Acquisitions Deal-Makers
Building a Winning Team
Chapter One
Buyers and Sellers
and Their People
While most of the companies whose names we recognize today are
publicly held, the vast majority of businesses are still privately
held and in most cases are owned by either an individual or a family.
In the United States alone, more than 5 million small and mid-sized
businesses represent the backbone of the economy. While the
highest-profile acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, equity investments
and joint ventures (together "Strategic Transactions") take place
between large public companies in well-publicized and often argumentative
processes, for every such big deal hundreds of smaller Strategic
Transactions take place every day. In 2005, more than 11,000 reported
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