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Authors: S R Vishwanath, Chandrashekar Krishnamurti
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0761935865
Content
This book covers the entire spectrum of activities in a typical merger transaction—starting from searching for candidates to closing the deal. It is designed to be a rigorous yet relevant book on mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring for students, research scholars and practitioners of finance. The key features of the book include: – Rationale for diversification via acquisition, searching for acquisitions, valuation of publicly and privately held companies, design of consideration in acquisitions, cross-border acquisitions and empirical evidence on mergers. – Various forms of corporate restructuring like spin-offs, carve outs, targeted stocks, reorganization of debt contracts, lay offs and downsizing are covered. – There is also a summary of the research conducted in this subject over the last 20 years.Table of Contents
- Preface
- Diversification via Acquisition
- Searching for Acquisitions
- Value Drivers and Target Valuation
- Valuation of Privately-held Companies
- Real Options Analysis in Mergers and Acquisitions
- Design of Consideration in Acquisitions: Cash and Stock Offers
- Accounting and Tax Factors in Mergers and Acquisitions
- Cross-Border Acquisitions
- The Empirical Evidence on Mergers
- Takeover Defenses
- Spin-offs, Equity Carve-outs and Targeted Stocks
- Bankruptcy and Reorganization
- Employee Share Ownership Plans
- Index
