M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal (Wiley Finance) 2nd Edition

The comprehensive M&A guide, updated to reflect the latestchanges in the M&A environment
M&A, Second Edition provides a practicalprimer on mergers and acquisitions for a broad base of individualsnumbering in the hundreds of thousands:

• Investment bankers involved with mergers and acquisitions(M&A).
• Equity analysts at hedge funds, risk arbitrage funds, pensionfunds, and banks, who invest in firms engaged in M&A.
• Private equity professionals at buyout funds, venture capitalfunds, and hedge funds, who routinely buy and sell companies.
• Corporate executives and business developmentprofessionals.
• Institutional loan officers working with M&A and buyouttransactions.
• Business students at colleges and graduate businessschools.
• Investor relations professionals at corporations and publicrelations firms.
• Lawyers who work with corporate clients on M&A-relatedlegal, financial, and tax matters.
• Independent public accounting firms that review M&Aaccounting.
• Government regulators
• Sophisticated individual investors

Its comprehensive approach covers each step in the process, fromfinding an opportunity, to analyzing the potential, to closing thedeal, with new coverage of private equity funds and internationaltransactions. This updated second edition also includes informationon emerging markets, natural resource valuation, hostile takeovers,special deals, and more, plus new examples and anecdotes taken frommore current events. Additional illustrations and charts helpreaders quickly grasp the complex information, providing a completereference easily accessible by anyone involved in M&A.

The mergers and acquisitions environment has changed in thethirteen years since M&A was initially published,creating a tremendous need for authoritative M&A guidance froma banker's perspective. This M&A update fills that needby providing the characteristic expert guidance in clear, conciselanguage, complete with the most up-to-date information.

• Discover where M&A fits into different corporate growthstrategies, and the unique merits it confers
• Delineate clear metrics for determining risk, valuation, andoptimal size of potential acquisitions
• Gain deeper insight into the fundamentals of negotiation, duediligence, and structuring
• Understand the best time to sell, the best way to sell, and theprocess of the sale itself

In the past decade, the dollar value of M&A deals has jumpedten-fold, and the number of individuals involved has expandedconsiderably. More and more executives, analysts, and bankers needto get up-to-date on the mechanics of M&A, without wadingthrough volume after volume of dense, legalistic jargon. Finally,M&A is back – providing a complete reference tothe current state of the M&A environment.