The essential reference revised and updated.
Supplemented with numerous updated, international case studies, this new Fourth Edition helps novice and savvy business managers fully comprehend the issues, methods, motives, and techniques that shape today's world of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations. Providing a historical and practical perspective, it covers every aspect of a deal-from which kind of corporate restructuring is right for a corporation and the laws governing them to the financial analysis used by acquiring and target companies prior to signing the deal.