Structuring Mergers & Acquisitions: A Guide To Creating Shareholder Value, 4th Edition

Unlike other M&A references, this one-volume guide establishes a framework for analyzing each transaction from a financial perspective, and evaluating your options in terms of how they create value today or better position the company to build value tomorrow. In this Fourth Edition of Structuring Mergers & Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Shareholder Value, you get clear, authoritative discussions of:

• How shareholder value relates to mergers and acquisitions, and different methodologies for valuing a transaction, such as discounted cash flow, comparable company, comparable transaction, premiums paid, price/volume relationships, and private company valuation.
• How accounting can influence value creating in mergers and acquisitions , a critical aspect of understanding and structuring the proper transaction for differing business circumstances.
• Collars, break-up fees, lock-ups, walk-aways, minority squeeze outs, earnouts, and anti-trust considerations, and other special topics you will encounter in deals
• Transactions you may encounter, from “plain vanilla” deals like mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and leveraged buyouts, to more complicated restructuring alternatives like spin-offs, split-offs, share repurchases, recapitalizations and restructuring options that can enhance shareholder value.
• Protecting against takeover threats, including legal and structural defenses, with coverage of the most common form of legal defense, the shareholder rights plan.
• Making aggressive or hostile offers for a company, the pros and cons of “going it alone” in attempting a hostile acquisition.
• Performing effective and complete due diligence on a company in the context of a transaction, a critical step that is often overlooked as something “someone else should do.”
• Handling the human aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including basic transition tips that can avoid massive pre- and post-deal turnover.