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Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (4th Edition) (1-year Online Subscription)

Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (4th Edition) (1-year Online Subscription)

Author: Meredith M. Brown; Ralph C. Ferrara; Paul S. Bird; Gary W. Kubek; William D. Regner
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. (Online)
ISBN: 10071670
Published In: Subscription-type (Contents updated periodically)
Format: Online
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Demystify the takeover process with the straightforward guidance found in Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions, the definitive desk reference to managing the legal, regulatory, and economic aspects of today’s increasingly complex corporate combinations, including cross-border acquisitions.

Using the expert insights in this guide to the takeover process, you will swiftly master the nomenclature, tempo of deal-making and techniques for closing in all types of business combinations.Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions gives you a practical understanding of the critical procedures, issues, and laws both bidder and target corporations must consider, including:

How tender offers are regulated
Proxy contests
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
Strategic litigation
Federal regulation of a target’s responses to a takeover
Poison pills
State takeover legislation
Deal protections
Directors’ duties
Going private

This updated Fourth Edition of Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions expands the entire book with coverage of such topics as:

Recent trends in mergers and acquisitions
The impact of Rule 14d-10 on tender offers and proposed SEC amendments clarifying the rule
Developments in insider trading law
Proposed amendments to the proxy rules allowing delivery of proxy materials via the Internet
Stockholder proposals relating to poison pills and majority voting
Changes in the Hart- Scott-Rodino rules
Political considerations in cross-border M&A and increased attention to the role of CFIUS
How the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the USA Patriot Act have affected M&A
Developments in the standards of judicial review applicable to director actions
Developments relating to deal protection
Changes in federal tax rules affecting business combinations
Shareholder activism and M&A

PART I. CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE BIDDER

Planning for a Takeover
Initial Purchases
Approaching the Target
Tender Offers
Financing of Tender Offers
Proxy Contests
Strategic Litigation

PART II. CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE TARGET

Advance Planning
State Law Regulation of Tender Offer Responses: The Business Judgment Rule and Other Standards
Responding to Tender Offers
Defensive Strategies
Making Peace and Protecting the Deal

PART III. SPECIAL TAKEOVER-RELATED TOPICS