Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings

The Essential Guide to M&A, Revised and UpdatedThe Sixth Edition of this practical resource continues to provide corporate leaders with a proven guide to the most current information available for understanding mergers and acquisitions in today's competitive market. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings analyzes the up-to-date strategies and motives that prompt M&A, the laws and rules that govern the field, as well as the techniques to use when considering hostile acquisition.Thoroughly revised and filled with the most current research, graphs, and illustrative case studies, this book explores the most recent takeover trends on an international level as well as the role of leveraged transactions and private equity financing.Comprehensive in scope, the book includes a current, historical, and global perspective on the M&A field. The author reveals the effect of the increasing role of hedge funds in corporate restructurings and shows how shareholder wealth can affect a variety of takeover actions. Details on how bankruptcy can be employed as an effective restructuring technique are included as well as the latest developments in corporate governance. Gaughan also outlines the pros and cons of joint ventures and strategic alliances and includes the primary methods used to value public and private companies.Written by noted business valuations expert Patrick Gaughan, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Sixth Edition, gives an expert's perspective on M&A in today's global marketplace, and clearly shows how your company can benefit from corporate restructuring.