Practitioner's Complete Guide to M&As: An All-Inclusive Reference, with Website

A hands-on, practical guide to doing Mergers and Acquisitions

Highly practical and application-oriented, Practitioner's Complete Guide to M&As is designed with appreciation for your demanding obligations, putting the information you require at your fingertips.

This hands-on guide takes you through every step of the M&A process, from strategy development and target identification, to due diligence and value creation, written in a straightforward, "here's what you need to know now" style.

Whether you're new to the M&A process or just want a quick refresher, this book helps you know what to watch out for, what to do in specific situations, and how to do it. Its convenient bulleted format covers essential topics, including:

• Acquisition criteria

• Deal fees

• In-depth valuation guidance

• Platform value and real options

• Secrets to unlocking hidden value

• Pricing LBOs and the real deal about leverage

• Auctions, and how to play

• Complete due diligence guidance

• Deal structuring, taxable and tax-deferred deals

• Negotiating the deal

• Complete deal integration guidance

• Papering the deal

• Indemnification, duration, caps, baskets, escrows

• And much more

This is the only guide you need to confidently prepare for, undertake, and master the M&A process. Designed for fast knowledge transfer and instruction, it is the ideal introduction for MBA and law school students and associates entering the investment banking, legal, and accounting professions.

Packed with numerous examples, forms, ideas, approaches, and "don't forget" notes for use during live transactions—plus a user-friendly companion website—Practitioner's Complete Guide to M&As is the resource CEOs, CFOs, controllers, corporate development executives, and business owners will turn to again and again for merger and acquisition tools and strategies in a quick-reference format.