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



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