Mergers and Acquisitions
INTRODUCTION
Based on UCLAs executive education mergers and acquisitions program, this concise guide
will help professionals needing M&A knowledge understand legal and regulatory
environments; how to structure deals from financial, tax, and accounting standpoints; and
how to analyze valuation models and use them to gauge the effects of a potential merger.
Combining the best components of a live seminar with the detail of a textbook, Mergers and
Acquisitions provides the qualitative and quantitative M&A tools today?s executive
needs.
J. Fred Weston (Los Angeles, CA) is the Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets
at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written or co-authored several
business titles.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: Change Forces and Mergers.
CHAPTER 2: Antitrust Policies.
CHAPTER 3: Strategy.
CHAPTER 4: Deal Structures.
CHAPTER 5: Mergers and Takeovers Theory and Practice.
CHAPTER 6: Alternative Paths to Growth.
CHAPTER 7: Valuation.
CHAPTER 8: Restructuring and Financial Engineering.
CHAPTER 9: Cash Flows, Dividends, and Share Repurchases.
CHAPTER 10: Takeover Defenses.
264 pages
