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The Art of M&A Strategy A Guide to Building Your Company’s Future through Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures By: Kenneth Smith and Alexandra Reed Lajoux Rapid globalization, technological advances, and dramatic changes in public policy have made M&A an essential tool for competing in today’s business climate. The Art of M&A Strategy delivers exactly what you need to build mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures into your overall business strategy. Learn More |
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The Art of M&A Due Diligence A merger or acquisition deal can be a profi table springboard to long-term success--or it can be a costly disaster. The key to experiencing the former and preventing the latter is a sound, effective due diligence process. |
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The Art of M&A Integration When companies merge it is usually with the expectation that, in the end, the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Unfortunately as evidenced by the AOL Time Warner merger, one plus one all too often moves shareholder returns to the wrong size of zero. The reason for failed M&As most commonly cited by the experts? Poor post-merger integration. |
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The Art of M&A Structuring Real-World Guidance to Help You Determine the Most Advantageous Structure for a Merger, Acquisition, or Buyout M&A activity is on the rise again, but the rules of mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts have changed dramatically since the last M&A craze. Today more than ever, a thorough understanding of the intertwined legal, accounting, and tax codes is vital for dealmakers looking to both minimize risk and maximize the potential for short- and long-term profitability. Learn More |
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The Art of M&A Authoritative and completely up-to-date, the Fourth Edition of The Art of M&A is an unsurpassed, one-stop guide to every facet of mergers and acquisitions that enables you to make winning deals with complete confidence. This definitive resource retains its popular Q&A format, offering quick access to all the changes that have occurred in the field since the merger wave of the 1990s. The book explores every key aspect of winning M&A transactions, and presents advice on avoiding common M&A pitfalls. Learn More |
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The Art of M&A: Financing and Refinancing
State-of-The-Art strategies to obtain--and repay--the financing you need to grow your business. Ideas may be the brain and personnel the muscle, but money is the lifeblood that allows a company to flourish in today's crowded global marketplace. In The Art of M&A Financing and Refinancing, today's preeminent M&A authorities--Alexandra Reed Lajoux and J. Fred Weston--take you straight to the sources of that money, drawing on their considerable combined expertise to clarify every aspect of the use of outside financing to expand a company.
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The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions experts Tim Galpin and Mark Herndon present an updated and expanded guide to planning and managing the M&A process. This comprehensive book is unique in providing the tools to address both the human and operational sides of integration. Based on the authors' consulting experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies, this resource will help organizations capture deal synergies more quickly and effectively. Learn More |
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