Book description
Modern restructuring techniques for a global business landscape
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Fifth
Edition carefully analyzes the strategies and motives that inspire
M&As, the laws and rules that govern the field, as well as the
offensive and defensive techniques of hostile acquisitions.
- Incorporates updated research, graphs, and case studies on the
private equity market, ethics, legal frameworks, and corporate governance
- Expanded and updated chapters on corporate governance, joint
ventures and strategic alliances and valuation
- Expanded global treatment of the field of M&A
- Shows business managers and financial executives how corporate
restructuring can be used successfully in any company
- Looks at the most effective offensive and defensive tactics in
hostile bids
- Reviews the impact on shareholder wealth on a variety of
takeover actions
- Packed with the most up-to-date research, graphs, and case
studies, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings,
Fifth Edition provides a fresh perspective on M&As in
today's global business landscape.
Patrick A. Gaughan is President of Economatrix
Research Associates, Inc., an economic and financial consulting firm
serving a large number of Fortune 500 companies. The firm specializes
in the application of economics and finance to litigated matters. He
is often called upon to serve as an expert witness and measure damages
in lawsuits including those involving mergers and acquisitions. He has
been teaching mergers and acquisitions for over twenty years and is a
graduate-level professor of economics and finance at the Silberman
College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
