Demystify the takeover process with the straightforward guidance found in Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions, the definitive desk reference to managing the legal, regulatory, and economic aspects of today’s increasingly complex corporate combinations, including cross-border acquisitions.
Using the expert insights in this guide to the takeover process, you will swiftly master the nomenclature, tempo of deal-making and techniques for closing in all types of business combinations.Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions gives you a practical understanding of the critical procedures, issues, and laws both bidder and target corporations must consider, including:
- How tender offers are regulated
- Proxy contests
- The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
- Strategic litigation
- Federal regulation of a target’s responses to a takeover
- Poison pills
- State takeover legislation
- Deal protections
- Directors’ duties
- Going private
This updated Fourth Edition of Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions expands the entire book with coverage of such topics as:
- Recent trends in mergers and acquisitions
- The impact of Rule 14d-10 on tender offers and proposed SEC amendments clarifying the rule
- Developments in insider trading law
- Proposed amendments to the proxy rules allowing delivery of proxy materials via the Internet
- Stockholder proposals relating to poison pills and majority voting
- Changes in the Hart- Scott-Rodino rules
- Political considerations in cross-border M&A and increased attention to the role of CFIUS
- How the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the USA Patriot Act have affected M&A
- Developments in the standards of judicial review applicable to director actions
- Developments relating to deal protection
- Changes in federal tax rules affecting business combinations
- Shareholder activism and M&A
