Creating Value from Mergers & Acquisitions, 2nd edition
The Challenges
By Sudi Sudarsanam
Pearson Education
September 2010
ISBN: 9780273715399
786 Pages
$115.00 Paper original
CONTENTS
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Publisher’s acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part One
HISTORIC, CONCEPTUAL AND PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
2 Historical overview of mergers and acquisitions activity
3 Alternative perspectives on mergers
4 Are acquisitions successful?
Part Two
CORPORATE STRATEGY AND ORGANIZING FOR ACQUISITIONS
5 Sources and limits of value creation in horizontal and related mergers
6 Sources and limits of value creation in vertical mergers
7 Sources and limits of value creation in conglomerate acquisitions
8 Cross-border acquisitions
9 Strategic alliances as an alternative to mergers and acquisitions
10 Corporate divestiture &p;
11 Leveraged buyouts
12 Acquisition decision process: organizational, psychological and governance perspectives
13 Target selection for acquisition
Part Three
DEAL STRUCTURING AND NEGOTIATION
14 Target valuation
15 Accounting for mergers and acquisitions
16 Paying for the acquisition
17 Antitrust regulation
18 Regulating takeover bids
19 Advisers in takeovers
20 Bid strategies and tactics
21 Defences against takeovers
Part Four
POST-ACQUISITION INTEGRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
22 Organizational and human aspects of post-acquisition integration
23 Post-acquisition audit and organizational learning
24 Meeting the challenges of mergers and acquisitions
Index