Mergers, Acquisitions, And Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach To Process, Tools, Cases And Solutions

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases and Solutions

Most books on mergers and acquisitions focus on process management, human resource management, or the financial aspects of the deal. This book brings together the essential elements of each domain, including subjects that are often overlooked or treated only superficially by other texts. These subjects include post-merger integration, business alliances, deal structuring and strategies, financial modeling and simulation, assumptions-driven planning, and valuing intellectual property. This book is unique in that M&A activity is discussed as a series of interdependent activities and in the context in which each activity actually occurs.
While intended for students in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, business strategy, industrial organization, and entrepreneurship courses at both the MBA and undergraduate level, this text has broad market appeal. The material has worked quite effectively in both executive development and training programs. The book also has substantial appeal for those who are hoping to become or who are actively pursuing careers as financial analsyts, chief financial officers, corporate treasurers, operating managers, investment bankers, business brokers, portfolio mangers, investors, as well as corporate development and strategic planning managers. Others likely to have an interest include bank lending officers, venture capitalists, business appraisers, actuaries, government regulators and policy makers, and entrepreneurs.
The generous use of practical, timely, and diverse examples and contemporary (including e-commerce) business cases with solutions makes the text suitable for distance learning, self-study, as well as for large lecture focused courses. The book presumes only a basic knowledge of accounting and finance.

Key Features
* Integrates the subject matter in terms of a process and in the context in which M&A activities actually occur
* Addresses activities often ignored in other texts such as post-merger integration, business alliances, financial modeling and simulation, deal structuring, assumptions-driven planning, and valuing intellectual property
* Discusses deal structuring as a interactive process consisting of choice of acquisition vehicle, post-closing organization, form of payment, form of accounting, form of acquisition, and tax structure
* Provides numerous practical, timely, and diverse contemporary (including e-commerce) examples and business cases with solutions taken from 15 different industries
* Each chapter concludes with an integrative business case with discussion questions and solutions
* All aspects of the M&A process are integrated into a highly realistic business case as the book's concluding chapter
* Discussion reflects author's own experience in managing more than thirty transactions of various types in nine different industries and teaching MBA and undergraduate students as well as M&A practitioners