Corporate restructurings continues to be an indispensable tool in building the emerging generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global basis. However, the issues, methods, motives, and techniques that shape today’s world of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations is often too complex for even the most savvy business managers to comprehend. And today, running a business successfully means being able not only to understand, but also harness the complexities of corporate restructurings.
Book Details:
- Author: Patrick A. Gaughan
- ISBN: 9780471237297
- Year Published: 2002
- Pages: 640
- BISAC: BUS015000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Mergers & Acquisitions
About the Book and Topic:
Corporate restructurings continues to be an indispensable tool in building the emerging generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global basis. However, the issues, methods, motives, and techniques that shape today’s world of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations is often too complex for even the most savvy business managers to comprehend. And today, running a business successfully means being able not only to understand, but also harness the complexities of corporate restructurings.
The world of mergers and corporate restructuring has undergone dramatic change in the past several years. The highly leveraged, bust-up deals of the 1980s have been replaced by more strategically designed, less leveraged transactions. Today’s deals feature a wide variety of transactions that span the full spectrum from large megadeals to various forms of downsizing. While many of the characteristics of the 1980s are still relevant, other newer techniques have been developed and play a major role in today’s transactions. This book takes a fresh look at mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate restructuring practices now in use and describes how they are currently being used to revitalize and supercharge companies. This University Edition contains questions at the end of each chapter as well as an overview at the start of each chapter. An on-line instructor’s guide will provide solutions to end of chapter questions as well as additional questions and a Powerpoint slide presentation for professor’s to download and use in their classes. This presentation will be updated to keep the material as fresh as possible.
Each chapter in the University Edition starts with an overview and concludes with questions to ensure the reader’s absorption of the material. * Includes on-line instructor’s guide with solutions to the chapter questions, additional questions, and a Powerpoint slide presentation professors can download and use in class. * Provides both practical and historical perspective of M&As and other corporate restructuring. * Explains how each form of restructuring works and the laws governing them. * Includes numerous case studies, all thoroughly updated.
About the Author
PATRICK A. GAUGHAN is Professor of Economics and Finance at the College of Business at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is also President of Economatrix Research Associates, Inc. Dr. Gaughan has authored several books and articles in the field of mergers and acquisitions and other areas of finance and economics. He is actively engaged in the practice of business valuations for mergers and acquisitions, as well as other related applications. He has been teaching mergers and acquisitions on the graduate level for many years, and is a consultant to a number of Fortune 500 companies.