From the Back Cover:
Your personal on-call M&A consultant--covering every detail from pre-negotiation planning to post-closing integration. including: choices between internal expansion and acquisitions; acquisition financing; valuation methods including discounted cash flow analysis; "due diligence" reviews; negotiating methods; federal and state taxation including tax-free reorganizations and Section 338(h)(10) elections; accounting methods including pooling of interests and leveraged buyout treatment; antitrust, securities registration, and tender offers; environmental and other legal requirements; employee stock ownership plans; acquisition contracts and closings; pension and other employee benefit plans; international transactions. Written in a concise style, by one of today's leading M&A authorities, The McGraw-Hill Guide to Acquiring and Divesting Businesses is required reading for a fast-paced business environment. Packed with numerous examples, diagrams, checklists, forms, passages excerpted from standards, laws, and regulations, and references to to other sources, this comprehensive resource is all you need to be well-informed in all aspects of acquisition and divestiture transactions.
About the Author:
Edward E. Shea is a partner with the New York City law firm of Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions and corporate practice. Mr. Shea formerly served for more than ten years as a director and a senior officer of Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 500 multinational corporation with shares traded on The New York Stock Exchange. He served for four years as a director of GAF Corporation, also a Fortune 500 multinational company. Mr. Shea also serves as an adjunct professor in the Finance and Economics Department of Pace University's Graduate School of Business, and teaches seminars on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and project finance at the New York Institute of Finance.
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