Authors: Gerhard Picot
ISBN-13: 9780333968673, ISBN-10: 0333968670
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: REV
Dr. Gernard Picot is Partner, Freshfields Deringer and Professor in Commercial Law, Institute for Mergers and Acquisitions Private University of Witten, Germany.
The enactment of mergers and acquisitions involves complex economic, legal, technical, and social procedures. This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook addresses the issues involved in effecting mergers and acquisitions internationally. The author's practice-oriented approach follows the normal course of the transactions through the planning phase, the execution phase, and the post-merger integration/implementation phase, providing managers, investment bankers, legal advisors, accountants and academics with an in-depth understanding of the factors necessary for success and the means to understand and improve transaction management and create new economic values.
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List of Tables | ||
Preface | ||
Notes on the Contributors | ||
Pt. 1 | Planning of Mergers and Acquisitions | |
1 | Economic and Business Law Parameters for the Planning of Mergers and Acquisitions | 3 |
2 | Mergers and Acquisitions: Interface between Companies and the Capital Markets | 29 |
3 | Global Tax Planning and Global Tax Structuring | 53 |
Pt. 2 | Implementation of Mergers and Acquisitions | |
4 | The Implementation of Mergers and Acquisitions under Business Law Aspects: the Formation of the Transaction Agreement | 61 |
5 | Due Diligence | 153 |
6 | Corporate Valuation | 184 |
7 | Merger Control | 213 |
Pt. 3 | Integration of Mergers and Acquisitions | |
8 | Post-Merger Integration | 271 |
9 | Restructuring with Mergers and Acquisitions | 292 |
10 | Personnel and Cultural Integration | 309 |
11 | Internal and External Communications | 342 |
12 | Pre- and Post-Merger Integration in Cross-Border Transactions: Trends, Tools, Theses and Empirical Tests of Old and New Economy Deals | 371 |
Index | 399 |