Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

A rigorous and relevant book on mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring for students and practitioners of finance. The key features of this work are: - It covers the entire spectrum of activities in a typical merger transaction - starting from searching for candidates to closing the deal. - Topics discussed include rationale for diversification via acquisition, searching for acquisitions, valuation of publicly and privately held companies, design of consideration in acquisitions, crossborder acquisitions and empirical data on mergers. - The book covers various forms of corporate restructuring like spin offs, carve outs, targeted stocks, reorganization of debt contracts, lay offs and downsizing. - It contains numerous real life examples and summarizes much of the research done in the last 20 years.